Our wine culture in China is very long. Many people like to drink, and there are many kinds of wine, including white wine, yellow wine, beer, red wine and so on. Other wines are drunk directly after opening a bottle, but red wine is different. Before drinking red wine, it is often necessary to sober up, usually about 20 minutes to 2 hours. So what does this hangover really mean? Let's give you a detailed introduction, and let you know more about wine after reading it.

Let's talk about the main purpose of sober up first. What is sober up for?

(1) Remove impurities, because red wine is generally flat or inclined at 30 degrees. After a long time, there will be precipitation, oak slagging and so on. Directly open the wine to drink, these impurities will make the wine turbid and affect the taste, so it is necessary to precipitate and sink the impurities, and even some red wines need to be filtered with filter paper.

2 Softening tannins, everyone knows the importance of tannins to the taste of red wine. The purpose of decanting red wine is to contact oxygen, soften tannins and improve the quality and taste of red wine.

(3) release fragrance and remove impurities. By shaking the red wine, the odor and methanol originally sealed in the wine are volatilized. Release the aroma of wine and further improve the taste of red wine. This is actually very important, which can be said to be one of the main purposes of sobering up.

The above is the purpose and function of sobering up, and the following is the practice of sobering up.

First, put the red wine upright for 30 minutes to a day, in order to let impurities precipitate at the bottom of the bottle. Then prepare a funnel, a filter paper, a candle and a sobering up device. Put the filter paper in the funnel, insert it on the decanter, then light the candle, pick up the red wine bottle, hold it on the candle at a certain distance, slowly pour it on the filter paper, and finally flow into the decanter. Finally, pay attention to observation. If there is a lot of sediment at the bottom of the red wine bottle, don't pour it.

Pour all the wine, and you can drink it after 20 minutes to 2 hours. The above is a more detailed method. In fact, candles and filter paper are omitted in many places, and it is ok to pour them directly into the decanter. Only some very high-end places, tasting some special red wine, need such a complicated approach. There is also a touching saying about wine sobering up, that is, let red wine wake up slowly from a deep sleep, emitting its charming fragrance and taste.