Wine Culture in Mexico, Cuba and Italy

Italian wine culture: Italy has a close and long-standing relationship with wine. The ancient Greeks called Italy "the land of wine". This name still lives up to its name today, because every region to which Italy belongs produces its own wine. Wine is the word that really connects this land. Italy is one of the countries that produce the most wine in the world. Many wines are sold all over the world, except some of them stay at home. French wine is very famous, but many French wine merchants use grapes from Italian vineyards. Italians nowadays, especially young people, are more and more interested in wine. From 65438 to 0986, some fashionable Anglo-Saxon bars expanded the beer market. This phenomenon is only a temporary fashion. Facts have proved that young people have regained the cultural traditions of their parents. Now many people realize that wine is a really delicious and healthy drink. It is not surprising to choose a vineyard for the weekend. You can also buy many kinds of wines there, such as Dolcetto di Dogliani, Barolo, Gavi, Bardolino, Soave and so on. In Italy, wine is usually used as a table, which has been handed down from the Roman Empire. Nobody drinks in the bar, so I feel uncomfortable to see many people do this in China. In fact, when I first arrived in Italy, I also went to the supermarket with my Estonian roommate to buy the cheapest sweet wine to take home. Because we are all casual people, when we are thirsty, we take the wine out of the refrigerator and blow it into the bottle, so when my friends who came from Turin to spend Easter with me saw us doing this, they exclaimed that we were alcoholics. In Italy, food is very particular, and there are many rules, such as when to eat something, when not to eat anything, and what wine to go with what dishes are very fixed. I was not used to it at first, but I always felt that they were too rigid, as long as they were casual, and then they assimilated. Perhaps this is the power of ancient culture. The purpose of wine accompanying dishes is to make the taste more harmonious when eating, to make wine and dishes set each other off and add color and delicacy to each other. Generally, red wine with red meat, white wine with white meat and seafood. In every restaurant in Italy, there are homemade wines, one-liter and half-liter, which are filled in large open glasses. Many people like to order this wine, especially when they go to other places, especially Italians. There are many antique family restaurants in Italy. If you go with your lover, order some good dishes and show your love in the fields, it will be a wonderful thing. According to the sugar content, wine can be divided into dry wine, semi-dry wine, semi-sweet wine and sweet wine. Wine is divided into red wine, white wine and pink wine by color. The most famous Italian wines are the classic Chianti in Tuscany, Babela in Piedmont, Toquet in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lan Brusco in Emilia and Sangiovese in Romagne. In Verona, the hometown of Romeo and Juliet, an Italian wine exhibition named Vinitaly is held every year. The name is wonderful. Vini means wine in Italian, and Italy goes without saying. This exhibition is really a combination of wine and Italy. In fact, many Italian immigrants also brought this tradition to California, South Africa, Australia and Argentina where they now live. Mexican wine culture: When it comes to Mexican wine, I believe that tequila immediately comes to mind, and it is definitely the king of all wines in Mexico. Here, cheap tequila is often incredibly cheap. In the supermarket, the price of Hermosillo is less than one dollar a liter. Tequila is usually the first choice for local young people to consume alcohol and drinks at night. China people like me actually prefer to consume beer and Chivas Regal, but these two kinds of wine are not suitable for drinking in a passionate environment. There are two drinking methods of tequila: pure drinking and mixed drinking, and mixed drinking is made into cocktails. The first attempt was mixed drinking, which may also be related to my reluctance to drink again many years ago, so if I am tired of tasting wine now, I always choose the way recommended by others. Later, the company went out to eat with another cooperative company here, and also tried pure drinking. Let's talk about mixed drinking first. People who drink less or don't want to drink can make cocktails with sprite and tequila. There are all kinds of cocktails in local restaurants here, and then I like to use a goblet with lemon or cherry on the side and put different colors of local "salt" on the side of the glass. For me, the color is better. As for pure drinking, tequila has a special wine glass with a capacity of about three or four yuan, which is usually drunk at one gulp. It tastes like drinking a fire in my heart, yes, but it feels very comfortable. Tequila is made from blue tequila juice, which is a cactus plant. So it seems that tequila juice is the so-called cactus juice, but it is not: the real tequila must actually be made of blue tequila. Mexico has strict regulations on the grade of tequila and a naming system for its country of origin. Only 65,438+0,865,438+0 cities in Mexico have obtained the right to protect the name of the country of origin. Pure tequila is made of 100% tequila juice, which is printed with the logo of CRT of Tequila Standardization Committee, indicating that this wine is supervised and recognized by it and meets the quality requirements. It also has the NOM logo, so it can be called tequila. .

Tequila category and variety: 1. Tequila made from 100% blue tequila juice. Its varieties are divided into silver, gold, aged, super aged and super aged from low to high. 2. Tequila made from 5 1% blue tequila juice. Its varieties are divided into silver, gold, aged, super aged and super aged from low to high. Herradura, Tres Generacions, Hornitos, Cuervo 1800 are all well-known brands. Supermarkets like HEB Wal-Mart in Soliana sell different kinds of tequila. A friend in Mexico City introduced me to Tres Generacions, but familiar China people here prefer to buy Cuervo 1800. This is because it may have something to do with the tastes of the population in China. China people think Cuervo 1800 tastes better, while Mexican margaritas and tequila Sunrise are mixed.

Beer (Cerveza) is also deeply loved by Mexicans, and Tecate and Corona are the most famous brands. Tecate is a Mexican version of Budweiser, which is cheap and popular. Most of my friends in China are men, so I prefer to buy beer every weekend. One reason is that Mexican beer is really delicious. Another reason is that many small shops in New laredo invite hot beer girls to dance and sell beer every weekend. Speaking of Cuban wine culture, we have to talk about the history of Cuban rum: the history of Cuban rum is an inseparable part of Cuban history. Rum is a traditional drink of Cubans. Cuban rum is a kind of drink that Cubans like to drink. It is made of sugar cane honey and put into white oak barrels by winemakers. After years of careful brewing, it has a unique and unparalleled taste and is widely welcomed in the international market. Rum is a natural product, which is processed from sugarcane. The whole production process is very strict from the careful selection of raw materials to the distillation of alcohol and the aging of sugarcane shochu. The quality of rum depends on the aging time, from one year to several decades. Usually sold in the market for three years and seven years, their alcohol content is 38? 0? 2,40? 0? 2. Remove in the production process? a href = '/s/gsu/' target = ' _ blank ' class = ' infotextkey ' & gt。 Brittle erosion marks? Swallow Valley, Rosewood, Portugal? 4 v. Lu Chu? /FONT & gt； Rum can be drunk directly alone, or mixed with other drinks to make a delicious cocktail, which can be drunk as an aperitif before or after dinner. It is an excellent companion for important parties. The origin of rum in the world is Cuba. It retains the traditional technology in production, handed down from generation to generation, and has been preserved so far.

The origin of rum Columbus came to Cuba on his second voyage to America. He brought it from the Canary Islands? a href = '/s/gsu/' target = ' _ blank ' class = ' infotextkey ' & gt。 The pastry shop failed to harvest the mother? H, argon on the edge of Meng Si's skis is not good. Gu? ゴ? Did you rob the yeast forest? Looking for gold on this island in Ipango. In the memory of Catholic Pope Ferdi Nan and Isabella, someone said, "Plant the cut sugarcane tree by tree in the soil and it will grow into a large piece." . Cuba's climatic conditions: fertile soil, high-quality water quality and abundant sunshine enable newly planted crops to grow around Indian chiefs, and sugar cane grows on this land in Cuba. The first generation of tools used by Indians to squeeze sugarcane juice was called Gunia. Then there is the sugar workshop powered by Xu Li (cattle and horses), then the sugar factory with high-power hydraulic equipment, and finally the modern sugar factory. The original labor force was replaced by slaves brought from Africa and became an important factor in the development of Cuba's sugar industry. 1539, some products of sugar industry appeared in the imperial edict of Carlos V, such as white sugar, coarse sugar, pure white sugar, refined white sugar, scum, refined scum, sucrose paddle, sucrose honey and so on. Jean-Baptiste Rabat, a French missionary (1663- 1738), saw that "the aborigines, blacks and minority residents living in the primitive state on the island made a pungent drink from sugarcane juice. Drinking it can make people excited and eliminate fatigue. This drink is made by fermentation. Europeans knew this method as early as18th century. After pirates, businessmen came to Cuba. One of them, Francis. Drake is most famous for calling a popular drinking wine based on sugarcane shochu Drake wine. Cubans say shochu made from sugarcane juice. It is produced in Antilles, Colombia, Honduras and Mexico. It is obtained by fermentation and distillation of sugarcane molasses. The difference is that Cuban rum is clear and transparent, and its fragrance is pleasant, which is the characteristic of Cuban rum production technology. 179 1 year, due to the slave riots in Haiti, the sugar factory was destroyed, so Cuba monopolized the sugar export to Europe. /kloc-In the middle of the 0/9th century, with the introduction of steam engines, sugar cane plantations and rum factories in Cuba increased. 1837, Cuba laid a railway and introduced a series of advanced technologies, including those related to the wine industry. The Spanish suzerain decided to take measures to vigorously develop Cuba's sugar industry and let Cuba export sugar. The introduction of new technology has changed the production process. Cuba has brewed a kind of rum with low alcohol content-high-quality rum with mellow fragrance and long taste. Drinking rum has become a part of the daily life of the Cuban people. Rum breweries are mainly located in Havana, Cá rdenas, cienfuegos and Santiago, Cuba. The brands produced by the new rum factory are Murata, San Carlos, Bocoy, Matusalen, Havana Club, Arechabala and Bacardi. After Cuban enterprises replaced manual production with mass production technology, rum production increased greatly. 1966 and 1967 opened a new chapter in the development history of Cuban rum brewing industry. Since then, all rum exported from Cuba has been labeled with the quality assurance mark of origin to show the high quality and authenticity of rum. This rum has nine brands, such as Half-Blood Girl, Santaro, and so on. Are you satisfied?