As a wine expert around you, how can you not buy fake red wine in such a world where counterfeiting is rampant and trust is lacking? How to distinguish between true and false red wine, let's tell you the whole wine! ~！

Fake wine can be divided into two categories.

The first category is that wine is blended with three essences and one water.

That is, there is no grape juice in this kind of wine at all, and it is mixed with essence, alcohol and pigment. This kind of fake wine is the worst, because it tastes extremely bad and has no nutritional value. When you drink it, it is no different from drinking alcohol mixed with water. The harm to human body depends entirely on what alcohol is used in the small workshop.

Identification method 1

1. Just put a little water in half a spoonful of household edible alkali to open it;

2. Prepare an ordinary napkin;

3. Drop a few drops of red wine on the napkin, and the wine will spread evenly without precipitation in the middle;

4. drop the edible alkali mixed with water on the red wine;

5. At this time, something magical happened. If red wine turns dark blue, it is real red wine. If there is no reaction, it is fake.

Because red grapes are natural anthocyanins, they are purple-red under acidic conditions and blue-green under alkaline conditions, which is also a color characteristic of many natural pigments. If the pigments are blended, the color will not change.

identification method 2, suitable for outdoor occasions

put a white napkin on the table, drop a few drops of red wine, and spread it evenly, which is the real wine, because the fake red wine pigment particles are large, which will precipitate in the middle of the paper towel, and spread out only as water marks.

Fake wine in the market is basically pigment blending, so the accuracy of these two methods is almost 99.9%. So why not 1%? That is, there is another possibility that if fake red wine uses grape skin pigment or other pigments that can change color due to different pH values, it will not be detected, but the cost of this method is not low and troublesome.

So at least we can know that if the red wine in our house doesn't change color when tested with edible alkali, it must be fake, which is beyond doubt.

the second category is that real wine is labeled with fake trademarks.

this kind of wine is fake, just like fake LV. It is also a real bag that can be carried, and its appearance is similar, but it is still fake.

You can drink this kind of wine, and you can drink it boldly. The more highly imitated the wine, the more you can drink it. Just like you can't break your shoulder with a fake LV.

here's an example. There is a wine called Lafite Legend, which is an entry-level product of Lafite Group. In the early years, the domestic retail price was 155/ bottle, but now I don't know the market. It is the following wine.

this kind of wine with the name of Lafite is actually very ordinary, just like a low-end product of Wuliangye Winery. Easy to sell, very popular with people who only recognize brands. Therefore, fakes are rampant.

But this fake Lafite wine is often better than the real wine. Why?

Lafite Legend is a bordeaux product, because the output is very large and the quality is not very high. It has the common problems of low-end bordeaux wine: it is light and green in taste. Specifically speaking, the fruit flavor is not rich enough, and it has the taste of some immature fruits like green peppers. The fake Lafite legend, although the original wine used is also very large, is likely to be the original wine in southern France or even Spain, where low-end wine is rich, because the climate is much hotter than Bordeaux, and the grapes are easy to mature, even if the output is large, at least good fruit flavor can be achieved. And cheap.

The official retail price of Lafite Legend is 155 yuan, and the wholesale price is 116 yuan. The Lafite Legend of parallel imports is about 8-9 yuan, and the price of fake goods is less than half of that of parallel imports. The wholesale price of table wine in Spain or southern France, which is not much different from the quality of fake wine, is around 3 yuan, and the cost of fake wine, which is likely to be bottled in China, will be lower, so the counterfeiters have enough profits.

how to distinguish the original bottle of imported wine

wine label

generally speaking, if it is an original bottle of imported wine, you can know its information from the wine label. According to the customs regulations, imported wines need to be labeled with the original label of the importing country's words on the front of the bottle, and also need to be labeled with a formal Chinese back label on the back.

appearance

the capacity of imported French wine on the wine label is usually shown as 75clE instead of 75ml commonly used in China.

the date marking of imported wine in the original bottle is also different from that in China. for example, the date marking method of French wine is L7296a611:58, in which l7 stands for 27, 296 stands for filling on the 296th day from the New Year in France, A6 stands for the production line number, and 11: 58 is the exact ex-factory filling time.

barcode

The back of the original bottle of imported wine will be marked with a 13-digit international barcode, in which the first to third digits are the country code; 4-8 digits are the manufacturer's code; The 9th-12th digits are the internal commodity code of the manufacturer; The 13th digit is the check code.

The first number of the barcode represents different countries, such as is the United States, 3-37 is French, 6 is China, 7 is Chile, 8 is Spanish, 9 is Australian, etc.

wine seal

generally, the wine seal with brand logo printed on the wine stopper of the original bottle can be rotated, because the sealing performance of the wine stopper is good, and the wine seal only serves as a brand logo symbol, so it can be rotated without sealing. However, some domestic fake wine or imitation wine are worried about the poor sealing performance of the wine stopper, so they also seal the wine seal together, leaving a flaw instead.

cork

generally speaking, the words on the cork will be consistent with the contents on the wine label, such as the name of the winery, the production batch number, etc., but it is difficult to do the details of domestic bottled wine, so consumers need to distinguish them carefully.

Finally, I will give you some suggestions on how to avoid buying fake wine.

1. Try not to go to the supermarket to buy wine.

Nowadays, many people buy wine with the expectation of health care, and the wine in the supermarket itself is very cheap, let alone whether it has maintenance effect.

2. Try to find a stable channel to buy wine.

in Taobao, it is possible to fake wine every time. Choose a wine merchant and confirm the reliability of their supply. It is a good way to choose the wine you want from the wine he provides.