because after it becomes wine, it has animal life. "

-William Younger

Charming colors, mysterious feelings and soft and mellow red wine are full of fresh life juice and profound historical connotation.

Once upon a time, red wine created a new drinking culture in China, and traces of red wine can be seen everywhere in the market. However, ordinary people don't know much about red wine, and they often drink red wine in a "almost dry" way, which makes people who are interested in learning and tasting confused.

before drinking red wine, you might as well know the temperament of red wine culture and history, and then you can understand the nobility of red wine imperceptibly.

red wine culture

wine has a variety of styles, with rich colors, smells and tastes. Sometimes even because of too many choices, it is dazzling and at a loss. The best way to know wine is to taste it yourself and understand the characteristics of different products, so that you can choose the ideal table wine to match different occasions and foods according to your own taste.

the method of wine tasting is (1) to look at the color; (2) smell the fragrance; (3) taste. The process should be slow, so as to appreciate the wonderful and complicated aroma and changeable wine taste, and the taste of good wine is endless.

To fully enjoy the fun of wine and give full play to its potential, we need to pay attention to the drinking temperature. Different wines have different ideal temperatures.

The basic principles are as follows:

★ White wine is suitable for cold drinks, and the exact temperature depends on the quality of the wine, which is about 6 to 11 degrees Celsius. To reduce the temperature of wine, the most convenient way is to put the whole bottle of wine into an ice bucket with half ice and half water. After fifteen to twenty minutes, the temperature will drop below 1 degrees. If you want the temperature to drop faster, you can sprinkle a handful of crude salt in ice water. In addition, we can also put white wine in the lower layer of the refrigerator, where the temperature is about 4 degrees Celsius. Take out the wine before drinking, and the temperature will rise slightly.

★ Red wine is suitable for drinking at room temperature. First, let the wine "breathe"-that is, let the wine contact with the air, which can make the wine mellow and soft. In addition, some aged wines have a lot of sediment, so it is advisable to change the bottles before drinking to remove the sediment.

how long is the best time to drink red wine after opening it? It depends on the quality and variety of wine. Ordinary red wine can be drunk after 15 minutes of opening, and aged wine may be opened half a day in advance.

★ In addition to temperature, if we drink more than one kind of wine at a meal, we should keep in mind a principle. Besides considering the collocation of wine and food (red wine with meat, white wine with fish and seafood), we should also obey the order from light to strong. Drink younger and lighter wine first, and then drink old and rich wine. Drink white wine first, then red wine. Because everyone eats different foods, it is best to prepare more wine glasses so that each guest can choose different wines to drink with different foods.

In fact, grapes are grown all over the world, so all countries in the world also produce wine. The temperate climate with an average annual temperature of 1-2 degrees Celsius is the most suitable for planting grapes, while the places with abundant rainfall and heavy humidity hinder the growth of vines, so good soil drainage is also one of the conditions for planting. The reason why France is unique among many red wines is that France is not only the country that brews the most kinds of wines in the world, but also produces countless world-famous high-grade wines.

Burgundy region: There are about 1,8 wineries in this region. From south to north, this area can be further divided into six production areas:

Chablis, Cote de Nuits, Cote de Beaune, Cote de Maconnais, Jean Makoun, Beaujolais-Bob. La Romane Conti, produced by Domaine de La Romanee Conti (DRC) in the wine village of Vosne-Romanee in this region, ranks first in red wine.

"Bordeaux": Only in Bordeaux, France, there are more than 9, wineries (castles). The five major wine-producing areas in this region are: Medoc, Pomerol, St.Emilion, Graves and Sauternes.

Medoc is arguably the most important region, producing only red wine. Medoc can be subdivided into four small wine regions, from north to south, St-e Stephane, Pauillac, St. Julien and Margaux. Among them, the three famous wines in Pauillac, Chateau Mouton Rothschild (Mouton Rogidburg), Chateau Lafite-Rothschild (Lafeiburg) and Chateau Latour (Latour Castle), are just like three diamonds that make Pauillac a representative of Bordeaux.

Pomerol, which accounts for only about 3% of Bordeaux, is really "rare things are precious". If the "red wine giant diamond" is Romani Kandy, as for the glory of the second throne, it should belong to 』(Chateau Petrus, the masterpiece of Pomerol in Bordeaux, France.

St.Emilion is also a famous garden producing area. Before the middle of the last century, the quality of wine in this area was generally poor, and there was even the irony of "coachman's wine"! There are only two A-rated companies: Chateau Ausone and Chateau Cheval-Blanc.

Graves: Chateau Haut Brion, Chateau Latour, Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Chateau Margaux, Chateau Mouton Rothschild (Mouton Logitech) and Chateau Haut Brion (Ou Brion) * * * enjoy the first-class top wines evaluated by Bordeaux officially, and are also the five major wineries in Bordeaux.

"Cotes du Rhone": together with Burgundy and Bordeaux, it is known as the three major wine-producing regions in France. The most precious red wine in the whole Longhe region is La Turque in Tiluodipo region.

"sober up"

Because red wine is regarded as a living liquid and contains Tannic Acid, the changes of tannic acid after it comes into contact with air are very rich. The best way to tell the change of a bottle of wine is to pour two cups for the first time after opening the bottle, and drink one cup first and the other cup until the end, so you can clearly feel it. The change time of each bottle of wine is different, maybe in 1 minutes, maybe half an hour, maybe after two hours. How to discover the vitality of wine depends on your own feelings and experience.

"Decenting"

The way of drunkenness is to pour wine into a Decenter, which is called drunkenness, but what is the purpose of drunkenness?

in fact, there are two things. One is to remove the sediment that has been left for many years. Although it is harmless to drink these sediments, they are harmful to the flavor of wine and must be removed.

The other is to make the wine with less years wake up its original flavor from its deep sleep. Because the wine will have a chance to contact with the air because of the action of drinking, the sleeping wine will be fragrant and mellow immediately.

"wine label"

How to choose a good bottle of red wine, the first requirement is that the taste should be smooth, and what kind of taste is smoother. It is a profound knowledge to taste red wine according to personal preferences. It takes a long time to learn wine tasting and a lot of tempering, but it is relatively simple to learn to recognize wine.

how to recognize wine? Learn to read the label on the bottle first. The label of wine is also called "『etiquette』" (French, meaning license), just like people's resumes. Just as there is a saying among people who know wine, "Just look at the label and you will know its taste", the label does reveal information about the taste (characteristics) of wine. "There are many kinds of designs on the label. What are you writing about? I really want to know ... "Generally, the label will indicate: the year of grape harvest, the wine name of the wine (named after the place of origin or Chateau), the country or place of production, the name of the manor, the name of the producer (winemaker), the capacity, the alcohol concentration, etc. According to the designer's design, the label has various styles, so the data is written in different locations.

the harvest year → the weather of that year will affect the quality of grape harvest, and the quality of a bottle of wine depends on the geological conditions of the production area, a.o.c. → the legal name of a.o.c., the wine in the castle →Mis En Boteille Au Chateau, the signature of the winemaker → a further guarantee of wine quality.