Wine review
20 18- 1 1-06
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The most important thing in the identification of old wine is the overall feeling. After a bottle of fake wine is used, it is necessary to feel whether the whole is coordinated. If it is a bottle of wine with a particularly clean bottle body, it is suspected of counterfeiting only if the seal is poor and dirty, or if the bottle body is covered with mildew spots, and only if the bottle mouth is smooth and shiny. If the overall label of an old bottle of wine is kept very neat, then the seal or bottle cap will be clean and beautiful. This is the overall grasp of the old wine after a bottle of old wine is introduced!
1. Look at this seal.
Old wines before the 1980s were either sealed with gland (that is, the gland commonly used in beer bottles, commonly known as gland); Either use a plastic cover and seal a transparent sealing film; And because the technology was not advanced at that time, some old wines would volatilize a little.
The Yaxi cellar in the above picture is a batch-produced old wine, which often appears on a treasure, and the price ranges from 9.9 yuan to twenty or thirty yuan. (The market value of authentic Yaxijiao in the 1980s and 1990s generally ranges from 900 to 2,000 yuan. People who don't understand think they have got a good bottle of wine, and drinkers will ask, is this wine ok to drink? You can still drink! In fact, Bian Xiao wants to say that the key to drinking this wine depends on your physical fitness! There are many similar wines. .
In addition, the sealing film of old wine belongs to a plastic chemical substance, and the properties of the material will deteriorate after long-term storage: the color will be yellow, the surface will crack and lose luster. Therefore, if you find a bottle of old wine with extremely bright sealing film and high reflectivity, such as the following bottles of "post-sealing film" wine with bright materials, it is obviously not a real old wine! Pay attention. Oh, be sure to see the color clearly.
In addition, some counterfeiters will imitate the "old, dim and yellow" characteristics of plastic films. The "back cover film" of this fake wine is treated with "dye", while the real old wine back cover film is only slightly yellow, and the color can't be so exaggerated:
Even if the seal cannot be recognized, it can be intuitively judged whether there is a problem with the seal. More or less patina, thick and clean, integrity and cracking are closely related to the storage environment.
For example, a bottle of old wine collected in the warehouse of the old supply and marketing cooperative is different from a bottle of old wine collected in the cupboard of ordinary people, with sealed patina and brightness. In addition, the north-south environment also has an important influence on the overall aging of old wine. The northern environment is dry and easy to seal or dry up. Old wines stored in the southern environment generally have toughness or high brightness.
In addition to the sealing film, the sealing rubber sleeve is also an identifying element. Take Luzhou Laojiao Tequ liquor as an example. Since the 1990s, the words "Luzhou Qu Distillery" have been printed on the plastic cover of real liquor bottle caps.
The words "Brewed by Luzhou Qu Distillery" are printed on the metal cover. Fake wine has no sealing rubber sleeve, even if real bottles are used, it can be identified by this method. However, from the 1970s to the mid-1980s, there were few factory names or fonts in old wine seals.
Look at the wine label
The standard labels on wine bottles should include: front label, back label or neck label, depending on the bottle body. There was a big difference between trademark printing in those days and now. Trademarks used in famous wineries are generally produced by big factories, with accurate color matching, exquisite printing, unambiguous fonts and no burrs. As shown below, the left is genuine and the right is imitation:
At the same time, most of the old wines produced in the early stage have simple information, no capacity, no degree and no raw materials for production. Even if there are, there are many different ways of marking. As shown below, the bottle is marked with 1983 old wine, but the alcohol content identification method has exposed the "forged" identity.
"%vol" is a modern identification method. Maotai liquor was used earlier and began to be used in the 1990s, but it was not popularized in most wineries until after 2000. In 1980s, "V/V" alcohol content identification was widely used. (except for old wine exported)
3. Look at the date of production
The date of production of a bottle of wine allows us to directly identify its year, but some old wines can't see the year at all because of their damaged appearance or age.