Preservation method of yuan red wine

Pots and mud heads are the best packaging containers for Yuan red wine. This kind of ancient packaging is beneficial to the aging and aroma improvement of Yuan red wine, and it is more and more fragrant after storage. Yuan red wine should be stored in a cool environment with little temperature change, usually not lower than, and it is not suitable to store odorous articles around it. In order to prevent Yuan red wine from becoming sour after long storage, a few black dates or red dates (5- 10 in 500 ml yellow wine) can be put in the wine to keep Yuan red wine sour for a long time.

Shaoxing yuan red wine, also known as "Zhuangyuan red", is named after the jar is coated with cinnabar, which is the most representative variety of Shaoxing old wine. Because Shaoxing wine has the characteristics of getting more fragrant with age, there has been an ancient custom among the people for thousands of years-using aged wine as a dowry for their daughters. When the daughter is born, parents will brew some jars, carve them with "the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon" and "Xi Shi Huan Sha" to show good luck, and then bury them in the cellar. When the daughter gets married, she takes out wine to entertain the guests. People call this wine "Daughter Wine" or "Zhuangyuanhong".

Yuan red wine is a traditional famous wine with the widest circulation, the largest output and the largest sales volume produced by Shaoxing Brewery General Factory in Zhejiang Province. Yuan red wine is cheap, with deep fragrance, rich aroma and sweet taste.

Shaoxing Yuan red wine is famous far and wide because of its long history and excellent production technology, and an important factor is its good water quality. The famous Jianhu water is used to brew Yuan red wine. It comes from Huijishan area and is made by filtering rocks and gravel. The water is clear, sweet and delicious. According to laboratory tests, water contains trace minerals, which is very beneficial to wine making, especially from October of the lunar calendar to March of the following year, and the water quality is stable, which is a good opportunity for wine making.