The best yellow wine brands recommended: Gu Yue Long Shan, Shazhou You Huang, Shikumen
1, Gu Yue Long Shan
The yellow wine industry's oldest Chinese, produced in Shaoxing, a good drinker who no one knows no one knows. Gu Yue Longshan's wine has a mellow flavor, relatively low sugar content, and can be consumed warm or cool. Among them, Gu Yue Longshan's Central Reserve Gold 5-year Hua Diao is the best, followed by the Reserve 8-year Hua Diao.
2, Shazhou Youhuang
Originally from Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, the wine is slightly sweeter than that of Guyue Longshan, with a longer aftertaste, of which Shazhou Youhuang 1878 five years old, and the wine DaKaifu five years old is the best.
3, Shikumen
Origin Shanghai, the taste is more bitter, mellow aging, a product presentation. The wine is bright and clear, mellow and light, clear mouth and good taste, the flavor is not bad.
Guyue Longshan belongs to the semi-dry yellow wine, Shazhou Youhuang belongs to the semi-sweet yellow wine, Shikumen belongs to the dry yellow wine, the taste is slightly bitter, shopping should be based on whether you like the sweet to choose the yellow wine that suits your taste.
Expanded information:
Different people have different taste preferences for yellow wine, which can be divided into the following four types according to its sugar content, so you can choose the one that suits your tastes:
1. Dry yellow wine:
"Dry" means that the sugar content in the wine is low, with the total sugar content lower than or equal to 15.0 G/L. The taste is mellow, fresh and free of off-flavors.
2. Semi-dry yellow wine:
"Semi-dry" means that not all the sugar in the wine has been fermented into alcohol, and some sugar is still retained. In production, the amount of water added to this kind of wine is low, which is equivalent to the amount of rice added to the ingredients, and the total sugar content is 15.0G/L-40.0G/L, so it is also known as "rice wine". Most of the high-grade yellow wines in China, with mellow, soft, fresh and refreshing tastes and no off-flavors, belong to this type.
3. Semi-sweet yellow wine:
This kind of wine adopts a unique process, which is to use finished yellow wine instead of water and add it to the fermentation mash, so that at the beginning of saccharification and fermentation, the alcohol concentration in the fermentation mash reaches a higher level, which inhibits to some extent the growth rate of yeast, and due to the low number of yeasts, the sugar produced in the fermentation mash can not be transformed into alcohol, so the finished wine has a sugar is higher.
The total sugar content is 40.1G/L-100G/L, the taste is mellow, fresh, sweet and refreshing, and the body of the wine is harmonized without any peculiar smell.
4, sweet yellow wine:
This kind of wine generally adopts the operation method of pouring rice, mixing wine medicine, brewing into sweet wine first, when saccharification to a certain degree, adding 40-50% concentration of rice white wine or bad liquor, in order to inhibit microbial saccharification and fermentation, with a total sugar content higher than 100G/L. It has a fresh and sweet taste and mellow, with a harmonized body and no peculiar smell. The flavor is fresh, sweet, mellow, and harmonious, with no peculiar smell.