There are three types of foreign wine:

1. Fermented wine, including wine, beer, rice wine and fruit wine.

2. Distilled alcoholic beverages, including Chinese liquor, French brandy, whiskey, Dutch gin, vodka, rum, and tequila.

3. Refined and comprehensively reconstituted alcoholic beverages, including British gin, liqueur, vermouth (absinthe), bitters, medicinal wine, etc.

Foreign wine refers to the general term for imported wine. It includes spirits, beer, wine, liqueur, etc., and beverage varieties with different alcohol contents. Fermentation is a process that is indispensable in the production of wine. It uses the action of yeast to break down sugar into a drinkable liquid called ethanol (alcohol).

The ethanol content is between 0.5% and 75.5%, and it also contains certain nutrients and flavor components. There are tens of thousands of types of wine around the world, and the raw materials used in making wine and the alcohol content of the wine are also very different. In order to facilitate understanding and memory, people use different methods to classify them. If wine is classified based on the production raw materials, it can be roughly divided into seven categories: grain wine, spice and herbal wine, fruit wine, egg wine, plant syrup wine, mead wine and mixed wine.

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Identification of foreign wine:

The foreign wine with the most serious counterfeiting situation in mainland China is cognac, and the counterfeiting of cognac is relatively concentrated. On three brands including Hennessy, Rémy Martin and Martell. This is because these three brands are the most well-known, have good quality and relatively high prices. These brands are divided into many grades according to the number of years they have been stored in oak barrels. For example, Hennessy has Richard, xo, sov, vsop, etc., and Remy Martin has Louis XIII, extra, xo, and Remy Martin. Premium club, vsop, Samsung vs, etc. Martell has xo, cordon bleu, Baume & Mercier noblige, vsop, etc. The prices of these grades are also from high to low.

In the first quarter of 2001, during the national supervision and inspection of famous liquors and foreign wines, counterfeit foreign wines were found in shopping malls, hotels and restaurants of different grades in Beijing. Relatively speaking, counterfeit wines were found in hotels and restaurants. There are more situations.

Some of the more common ways to identify cognac are:

1. According to relevant regulations, foreign wine labels must have Chinese logos and health inspection and quarantine stamps, so there are no Chinese logos and health inspection and quarantine seal may be fake wine. The authentic label has clear writing and good outlines; the fake wine label has blurred and irregular writing.

2. The genuine liquid is golden yellow and translucent; the fake liquid is dark and has poor luster.

3. The metal anti-counterfeiting cap on the genuine bottle cap is integrated with the bottle cap, while the anti-counterfeiting cap on the fake wine is glued on.

4. Genuine anti-counterfeiting marks can have different pattern changes at different angles, and the anti-counterfeiting thread can be torn off; the anti-counterfeiting marks of fake wine are dull, the pattern change is not obvious, and the anti-counterfeiting thread is sometimes printed on .

5. Genuine metal anti-counterfeiting caps have strict workmanship, clean plastic sealing and good gloss; while fake wine bottle caps have rough workmanship, poor plastic sealing material, are thicker, have poor gloss, blurred trademarks and poor three-dimensionality.

If you can choose the appropriate occasion for drinking, maintain the correct temperature of the wine, choose the right wine glass, and match it with certain dishes, you can fully bring out the characteristics of the wine and enjoy the fun of drinking.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Foreign Wine