Brandy, originally from the Dutch Brandewijn, meaning "burned wine". Narrowly speaking, it is a high alcohol obtained by distillation of fermented grapes and then stored in oak barrels.

Brandy is a distilled spirit, fruit as raw material, after fermentation, distillation, storage and brewing. With grapes as the raw material of the distilled spirit called grape brandy, often spoken of brandy, are referred to as grape brandy. To other fruit raw materials into brandy, should be added to the name of the fruit, apple brandy, cherry brandy, etc., but their popularity is far less than the former.

Brandy is often called the "soul of wine". Brandy is produced in many countries around the world, but it is most famous in France.

Role:

Brandy can help gastrointestinal digestion, warming the body, removing blood stasis and detoxification, detoxification and diuretic effect; it is an effective vasodilator, which can improve cardiovascular strength, and it is a good medicine for cardiovascular patients.

Brandy is the world's most prestigious kind of wine, "no brandy dinner, like the spring without the sun". Europeans have given this affectionate verse to brandy without stint.

Brandy is not the "magic water" in the mythological story, but it is the friend of human health. Some domestic and foreign experts in medicine and nutrition pointed out.

Frequent drinking of brandy can help gastrointestinal digestion; drinking brandy in the fall season, you can drive away the cold to warm up the body, remove blood stasis and detoxification, and influenza and other illnesses have the effect of antipyretic and diuretic.

The Generation of Brandy:

Dr. Joseph Needham (Joseph Needham), a famous British expert on the history of science in China, once published an article that the earliest invention of brandy in the world should be the Chinese.

Li Shizhen, a great pharmacologist of the Ming Dynasty, wrote in the Compendium of Materia Medica that there are two kinds of wine, namely, wine made from grapes and grape-boiled wine. The so-called grape shochu is the earliest brandy.

The Compendium of Materia Medica also wrote that grape shochu was made by fermenting grapes and steaming them in a retort to carry their dew in a vessel. This method began in Gaochang, and after the Tang Dynasty broke Gaochang, it spread to the Central Plains. Gaochang is now Turpan, indicating that China used grape fermentation to distill brandy more than 1,000 years ago during the Tang Dynasty.

Chinese people use the retort to steam white wine, distilled grape shochu, has been more than 1,000 years of history. Western scientists agree that China is the world's first invention of stills and distilled wine. Later this distillation technology, through the Silk Road to the West.

Entering the 17th century, the French improved the ancient distillation technology, made a distillation kettle, or called the Charente pot distillation pots, become today such as the distillation of brandy special equipment. The French also accidentally discovered the magical effect of oak storage brandy, complete the process of brewing brandy, the first to produce a perfect quality, reputable brandy around the world.

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