After years of storage, liquor will be more elegant and mellow, and the longer it lasts, the stronger it will be. Experts compare good wine stored for 20 years to liquid gold. The first key to collecting liquor is to prevent "running wine".

There are several ways to prevent "staying away from alcohol":

Check the hidden wine first, and then tighten the bottle cap. This is the first thing to do to prevent "running wine". Many wines have loose bottle caps when they leave the factory, and the consequences of "running away" after a few years can be imagined. ?

1. Heat the edible wax in a metal container. After the wax melts into liquid, turn the bottle upside down and soak the bottle cap directly in the container. The disadvantages of this method are: if the wax temperature is too high, the plastic bottle cap is easy to deform; In addition, if the wine leaks badly, the bottle will leak as soon as it is poured, and the wax seal will not be successful. ?

2. Apply melted edible wax to the joint of bottle cap and bottle mouth with a brush. The disadvantage of this method is that it destroys the original condition of the bottle cap, especially the original protective film on the plastic bottle cap is soaked by wax, which is not easy to recover.

3. Carefully wrap the bottle mouth with plastic wrap and wrap it with transparent tape. Straighten the tape at the bottle mouth and wind it several times. Transparent adhesive has a feature. The longer it wraps itself, the tighter it will be. Don't forget to leave a tape head, otherwise it will be difficult to disassemble. The effect of preventing "running wine" is slightly worse than that of sealing wax. ?

The best way is to tighten the bottle cap first, wrap the bottle mouth carefully with plastic wrap, then wrap it tightly with transparent tape, and then seal the wax.

shopping guide

Observation packaging

When buying wine, we must carefully and comprehensively inspect the brand name, color, pattern, label, bottle cap, bottle body, certificate, gift box and other aspects of the wine. The label printing of good wine is very particular; Excellent white paper, clear font specifications, bright and uniform colors, accurate pattern matching and no overlapping ink lines. The side seams of genuine packaging are neat and tight, and there are no uneven tightness and gaps. Do not buy liquor without the name, address and production date of the factory.

Check the bottle cap

At present, most of the well-known liquor bottle caps in China use aluminum metal anti-theft caps, which are characterized by smooth bottle body, uniform shape, convenient opening, neat and clear patterns and characters on the bottle caps and close cooperation. If it is a counterfeit product, it will often drip out when it is turned upside down, and the cover is not easy to unscrew, and the pattern text is blurred.

Observation quality

If it is in a colorless and transparent glass bottle, hold the bottle in your hand, turn it upside down slowly, and observe the bottom of the bottle in the light. If there are sunken substances or cloud-like phenomena, it means that there are many impurities in the wine; If the liquor has not lost its luster, turbidity and suspended matter, it shows that the quality of liquor is better. From the color point of view, except for Maotai-flavor liquor, general liquor should be colorless and transparent.

Smell and distinguish the taste.

Pour the wine into a colorless and transparent glass and observe it in natural light. Liquor should be clear and transparent, without suspended matter and sediment; Then smell its aroma, put your nose close to the mouth of the cup, and distinguish the level and characteristics of the aroma; Finally, taste it, drink a small amount of wine, and apply it on your tongue to distinguish the thickness, softness, alcohol content, roughness and whether the sour, sweet, sweet and spicy tastes are harmonious. However, low-grade inferior liquor generally uses inferior or moldy grain as raw materials, and the process is rough, which makes people choke and head.

Distinguish between true and false

Liquor is the hardest hit area where fake liquor is rampant. Maotai and other high-end liquors invest hundreds of millions of yuan every year to "fake". It is reported that in the past, the packaging of liquor was often printed with laser numbers, and consumers could check the authenticity of liquor by telephone.

However, with the improvement of anti-counterfeiting level, the feasibility of "plain code" is challenged, and most liquor companies immediately implant chips to carry out anti-counterfeiting in the form of secret codes. However, consumers can't see the code with the naked eye. If they want to identify the true and false, they need to go to the cupboard inquiry machine in specialty stores and flagship stores for inquiry.

Such anti-counterfeiting technology and system are too complicated and have little promotion value. Moreover, it is difficult for consumers to identify "Gui Li" by the common method of "seeing, listening and asking".

In order to solve this problem, this anti-counterfeiting inquiry system was developed by taking three famous liquors and red wines in China as the pilot. Sichuan famous wine began to try this inquiry system on 20 10, and the system officially appeared in the market at the end of last year.

References:

Liquor-Baidu Encyclopedia