While China’s wine culture is extensive and profound, there are also a dazzling array of foreign wine brands. With the rapid development of our country’s economy, foreign wines are constantly exported to our country. It can be said that they are colorful and dizzying. In particular, Chinese people are accustomed to bringing some gifts when visiting relatives and friends, and wine is often a common greeting gift. So there are so many foreign wines, how can we intuitively identify the authenticity of foreign wines? Here are some ways to identify genuine and fake foreign wine.
(1) Look at the packaging. Zhenyang Liquor's trademarks are very particular, neat, clear, with a strong sense of concavity and convexity, bright printing, fine and neat, and the handwriting and pattern will not appear stale or blurry. Otherwise, it may be fake wine.
(2) Look at the seal. The seals for foreign wine include aluminum seals and lead seals. Expensive foreign wine transported in containers usually has a lead seal outside the box. If the lead seal is opened or there is no lead seal, the wine is defective and cannot be purchased.
(3) Look at the anti-counterfeiting signs. There is usually a trademark on the bottleneck of foreign wine. There are various anti-counterfeiting marks in the trademark. Different foreign wines have different anti-counterfeiting marks. You should pay attention to observation and identification. If there is no anti-counterfeiting mark or the mark is wrong, it can be regarded as fake wine.
(4) Look at the trademark password. Different wines are printed with different digital codes, which respectively indicate the production date, manufacturer and import time of the wine. If the number on the wine label is different from that of the wine, it means it is counterfeit.
(5) Look at the numbers. Each foreign wine shop has its own code number. These Arabic numerals hint at the production date of the wine, when it entered the country, etc.
(6) Taste. Judging from the taste, Zhenyang wine has layered flavors and a long-lasting aroma. Taking Chivas Regal 12-year-old as an example, Zhenyang wine has a more complex aroma, with a sense of layering, common spicy and slightly sour flavors, and most importantly, a unique charcoal flavor. Fake foreign wine is made with essence or inferior raw materials, and the aroma dissipates quickly. The aroma may evaporate five or six minutes after pouring into the glass.
(7) Look at the code on the front and back of the bottle. There will be Chinese annotations on the trademarks of genuine foreign wines, such as "Exclusively sold in Guangdong", and some brands will also have anti-counterfeiting codes. Take Chivas Regal 12-year-old as an example. There is a code on the trademark on the front. If you look into the bottle from the back of the trademark, you can also see a code printed with a steel seal on the bottle wall. The two codes are consistent. Fake foreign wine usually only has English letters and garbled characters.
(8) Be alert if there are sawdust in the bottle stopper. Genuine wine generally uses a whole piece of bark dug out from a century-old tree as a bottle stopper, without any trace of adhesion. The price of the bottle stopper alone can reach about 10 yuan; fake foreign wine does not use higher-cost stoppers, usually A two-in-one material of wood chips and bark is used. The two ends of the plug are made of bark and the middle is compacted and bonded with wood chips. Small particles of wood chips can be seen.
(9) Color discrimination on paper. Judging from the color and transmittance of the wine. Turn the bottle upside down and observe it in the light. The real wine has a transparent color, high transmittance, and consistent color depth; the fake wine is dark and turbid, with inconsistent depth, dark colors sinking, and some with a little precipitation. If you dip real wine with chopsticks and drop it on a paper towel, the color will spread out very evenly. Fake wine will generally have a circular color distribution and uneven dispersion. In addition, the real wine will hang on the cup after being poured into the cup. The counterfeit wine is not made of real wine-making raw materials, but is mixed with saccharin, pigments and other ingredients, so the cup hanging phenomenon is not obvious.