Source: Consumer Review Network (ID: XFPL1894)
Author: Cat Nine
Any food has a shelf life, many people say that liquor also has a shelf life, and it is best to drink it at the specified time. Of course, there are also many people who will refute that the wine does not have a shelf life, as long as it is properly preserved, it can be saved indefinitely, and even there is a saying that "wine is good for aging".
Even in the south, when his daughter is born, fathers will bury dozens of altars of liquor at home and drink it when their daughter is married. This is a bit of a wonder, how long is the shelf life of liquor? How long does the liquor that is stored counts as old liquor?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="10" >What is old wine? </h1>
Old wine, as the name suggests, is a wine that has authority in the vintage. Compared with other common foods, liquor as a more special category, the shelf life can not be the same. Not only is the vintage long, but the wine quality must also be good, in order to be considered a good old wine. The first thing we should understand is that the body composition of liquor is composed of 98% ethanol and 2% organic molecules, and these 2% organic molecules are various acids, esters, aldehydes and other substances that constitute aroma and taste.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" how long does it take > for a liquor to be called an old liquor? </h1>
On the market, regarding the classification of liquor, some are cellared for ten or even twenty years, such cellared wine is actually not the liquor storage time, but the concept of stealing, not to mention that some liquor has other substances, resulting in storage time may become shorter. In fact, the word old wine does not only describe a liquor with a vintage, but more importantly, it must have a good quality of wine, otherwise, this pot of liquor can not be called aged wine at all.
Generally speaking, a bottle of old wine is most up to more than 3 years out of the factory, which is also the minimum standard of collection, if it reaches 5 years, then the maturity of liquor will become more ideal, but want to be called the real old wine, it is estimated to be stored for more than 10 years, of course, different liquors in the storage time will also be different, after all, their alcohol content and some raw materials are also different.
Alcohol degree between 50 ° -53 °, its ethanol molecules and water molecules hydrogen bond association ratio is the best, is also the most suitable for storage, it is precisely for this reason, so the sauce flavor of the liquor has become the favorite of many old drunkards, after all, the degree of sauce liquor is just right, and the sauce wine itself has an aging taste, if stored for a period of time, the more prominent the sauce flavor will be, the taste will be better.
For example, the fragrance type liquor, stored for 10 years, the taste can reach the peak, and drinking it at this time can make the people realize what is a good old wine. The sauce-flavored liquor is different, it needs to be stored for a longer time, and it will take 20-30 years to make its taste become the best taste. In history, the auction price of old wine is always very high sauce wine, sauce wine itself has an old taste, the longer it is stored, the more it can highlight the advantages of sauce wine aging.
Technical support: Beijing Oriental Huangpu Liquor Technology Research Institute
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