Like liquors such as Moutai, yellow wines such as Guyue Longshan, Huijishan, Shikumen, Jimo Laojiu, and Shazhou Youhuang are also unique to China. Rice wine is widely distributed in China, both north and south.
Previously, in the research report of China's top 200 liquor brands by value released by the 12th Huazhu Cup, the experts gave the top ten yellow wine brands led by Guyue Longshan after assessing all aspects of the existing rice wine brands. Many wine lovers choose wines based on this list.
However, recently, Consumer Reports sent 8 of the more popular semi-dry rice wines to authoritative third-party testing agencies.
According to the comprehensive comparative test results of "Consumer Report", it was found that the taste ranking of these 8 semi-dry rice wines had a preliminary entry with the ranking of high-quality rice wine given by netizens and the ranking of top ten yellow wine brands. Among them, the daughter is red, the tower is at the bottom, these 2 are unexpected, let's take a look.
Sensory indicators such as "aroma" and "taste" are one of the most important points for most wine drinkers to choose wine. Because only rice wine with good taste and significant aroma can preconceived notions grasp everyone's soul. Judging from the test results given by Consumer Report, the subjective blind evaluation results of experts show that the first place black felt hat refreshing rice wine scored higher, reaching 7.3 points.
(Source: Consumer Reports, and the following data sources are the same)
In contrast, the more famous daughters, Red Shaoxing Wine and Ta brand Shaoxing Wine (Chen Three Years), scored inferiorly. There are even two strange tastes in the mouth, the former is sour and bitter, and the latter is too spicy to enter. However, the sensory indicators such as "aroma" and "taste" are inherently subjective, and it is good for wine friends to look at it.
People who often pay attention to the rice wine circle know that in the circle, many old drunkards believe that the higher the amino acid nitrogen content of a rice wine, the more mellow and delicious its taste. The state has also made mandatory requirements for the amino acid nitrogen content of rice wine. For example, "GB/T 17946-2008 Geographical Indication Product Shaoxing Rice Wine" stipulates that the minimum amount of amino acid nitrogen in semi-dry rice wine is 0.6g/L. The minimum amount of "GB/T 13662-2018 Rice Wine" is 0.16g/L for both traditional and refreshing semi-dry rice wine.
According to the final test results, it was found that the daughter's red Shaoxing wine ranked first in the Shaoxing rice wine group with an ultra-high content of 0.85g/L (41.7% higher than the standard minimum of 0.6g/L). The ancient Yue Longshan Shaoxing Flower Carving Wine (aged for three years) ranked fifth. That is, in the selection of Shaoxing yellow wine group, the daughter's red umami taste is "the strongest", and the ancient Yue Longshan Shaoxing flower carving wine (three years old) has the "lightest" umami taste.
Non-sugar solids are specifically used to refer to nutrients and flavor substances in rice wine. In the same type of rice wine, the rice wine with high content of non-sugar solids is what we often call "good quality, good taste and expensive price".
In general, "non-sugar solids = total solids - total sugar". Simply put, after the water in the rice wine, ethanol and other volatile substances are evaporated, the remaining residual content (total solids), minus the total sugar, the final value of the non-sugar solids is obtained. At present, among the 8 types of yellow wine sent for inspection, Huijishan Pure Shaoxing Wine and Tapai Shaoxing Wine (Chen Three Years) rank first and second respectively. The non-glycosaccharide solids content of the two are similar. The traditional type of Kong Yi Ji carved rice wine also performed better.
Although from the perspective of brand fame and publicity in all aspects, the popularity of rice wines such as Guyue Longshan, Huijishan and Tapai is relatively high, but unexpectedly, the two rice wines such as wu felt hat refreshing yellow wine and multi-yellow rice wine (three years old) have higher CCR scores. However, these data can only represent 8 sample wines, and the overall quality of different batches and models of rice wines is not necessarily the same. To paraphrase the words of netizens, it is "a penny for a penny, and good wine is expensive."