"Sorrow and joy gather to disperse a glass of wine, 10,000 miles from north to south, east to west"
—— Wang Shifu's "Farewell at the Long Pavilion"
Whether you love to drink or not, you know a sentence, called "wine is the aroma of aging", in the many types of liquor, we often see vintage wine, cellar age wine, new wine and old wine, aged wine, these concepts have always made people dizzy, do not know how to distinguish, and some merchants use these concepts of marketing means to shoddy, such as a treasure hundreds of pieces of "decades of aging old wine", but drinking is not so. So after drinking so many years, do you know what they all mean and what the difference is?
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Vintage wine
Vintage wine does not refer to how long a bottle of wine has been stored, but rather to the fact that the bottle is mixed with the base wine of a certain vintage. Taking the 10-year-old liquor on the market as an example, most of the products are not that the storage period of the whole bottle of wine has reached ten years, but only add a certain proportion of the original wine of ten years to its products.
In general, the longer the year, the higher the price. Whether it is sauce-flavored, fragrant or fragrant liquor, there are different vintages of liquor, and the price will increase with the year.
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Cellar Ridge Wine
The age of the cellar is not the year of the cellar, but the "cellar age" used to make wine. For example, 60 years of cellar age means that the age of the cellar used for winemaking is 60 years, not that the wine has been stored for 60 years. Cellar age can affect the quality of wine, so winemakers often say "old cellar makes good wine".
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New wine old wine
New sake refers to wine that has just been distilled after fermentation. The aged wine is relative to the new wine, the new wine after a certain period of storage, the irritation is reduced, the taste gradually becomes mellow, supple, called aged wine.
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Aged wine
The term aged liquor mostly appears in the liquor collection market. Compared with the new wine, the aged wine is the whole bottle of wine from the date of the can delivery, after a period of storage (generally believed to be at least five years or more), reducing the pungency and irritation of the wine body, while increasing its aroma trace components, so that the entire wine body taste tends to be harmonious, tends to mellow, called aged wine.
These preserved aged wines, after decades of storage, have become the aged wines in the liquor collection market today, which is an extremely rare and non-renewable precious resource with high collection value. Each bottle of aged wine represents a precious piece of history.
Of course, the best drinking period of wine is a time limit, these old wines directly drinking taste may not reach the best, so most distilleries will mix it with the new wine in a certain proportion, you can make the new wine regain a new life, the quality of the wine to achieve a qualitative leap, the taste of the old wine will also be neutralized, drink better!