How to identify imported red wine?

The end of the year and the beginning of the year are the peak season for foreign wine sales, and wine is no exception. Sweet and delicious wine has always been a good product at holiday banquets. In recent years, more and more people like imported wine with low alcohol content, but there is often confusion in the market. In order to avoid buying fakes, it is necessary to popularize this knowledge. We can start with the bottle appearance and body of wine.

Tools/raw materials

Don't open the bottle "ten look"

Five skills of bottle opening and wine tasting

Methods/steps

First, look at the gift box packaging: the original red wine imports are generally boxed, without any gift boxes.

Second, look at the glass bottle: the bottom of the original imported red wine bottle is mostly concave and conical, and the bottom of the bottle is thick, which is beneficial to the balance of the bottle and "filtering residue".

Third, look at the tightness of the wine seal: the sealing of the original imported red wine cork is absolutely reliable. The wine seal printed with brand logo is just an identification symbol, not for sealing, and can be rotated. Some fake and shoddy wine manufacturers are worried about the leakage of wine plugs, so they seal the wine.

Fourth, look at the unit of measurement: the capacity of imported red wine is marked with 75cl instead of 750ml. If marked with "ml", it is imported canned wine or counterfeit imported wine.

5. Look at the numbers on the bottle: English and imported red wine bottles have raised numbers at the bottom or bottom to indicate the capacity and bottle diameter. Sixth, look at the date marking: the date marking of the original imported red wine is accurate to the filling time. Seven, look at the bar code: there is an international bar code on the back of imported red wine. 69 for China, 0 for USA, 3 for France, 7 for Chile, 8 for Spain and 9 for Australia. 8. Look at the label on the back: According to customs regulations, in addition to the label of the importing country on the front, imported red wine should also have Chinese on the back label. According to China's "General Rules for Labeling in prepackaged foods", imported red wine labels directly provided to consumers should include food name, ingredient list, net content and specifications, names of producers and/or distributors, etc. Nine, look at the customs declaration documents: the original imported red wine has an import declaration form. Ten, see the health certificate: imported red wine for regular sale must have a health certificate issued by the port inspection and quarantine institution. The contents of the certificate include product name, brand, country of origin (region), net content (specification), quantity/weight, production date (batch number), shelf life and certification body. Consumers should take the initiative to ask for a "health certificate" from the merchants to check whether the contents of the certificate are consistent with the label information of the purchased products.

First, look at the wine: look at whether the color of the wine is natural and whether there is unknown suspended matter. If the wine goes bad, the color will be cloudy.

Second, look at the wine stopper: open the bottle and see if the text on the cork stopper is the same as the text on the bottle label. In France, wine bottles and wine stoppers are special. Third, smell the wine: good red wine has a rather complicated smell, which will not be mixed with unpleasant smell or strange smell. Tasting: Pour the red wine into the glass and shake it gently to see if there is a hanging glass. After drinking the first sip of wine, when the wine passes through the throat, the normal wine is smooth, while the problem wine has a stimulating feeling. Fifth, look at the pigment: drop red wine on a good paper towel. The red color of the original red wine is a natural pigment with small particles. The wet marks spread on the paper towel are evenly grape red, and there is no obvious water spread. Fake wine is mixed with amaranth and other pigments, and the pigment particles are large, which will precipitate in the middle of the paper towel, while the water trail continues to spread outward, and the boundary between the red area and the water trail is obvious.