VSOP is a kind of high-end brandy (18~25 years old), the full name is VERY SUPERIOR OLD PALE. All brandy distilleries use letters to distinguish the quality and model, and also refer to the year to define the quality of the wine. .

Brandy originally comes from the Dutch Brandewijn, which means "burnt wine". In a narrow sense, it refers to wine with a high degree of alcohol obtained by distillation after fermentation of grapes, and then stored in oak barrels.

Brandy is a kind of distilled liquor, which is brewed from fruits through fermentation, distillation and storage. Distilled liquor made from grapes is called grape brandy. Brandy often refers to grape brandy. When brandy is made from other fruit raw materials, the name of the fruit should be added, such as apple brandy, cherry brandy, etc., but their popularity is far less than the former.

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Development history

In 1915, the domestic brandy "Keya" won the gold medal at the Pacific International Exposition, and our country had its own brand of high-quality brandy , Keya Brandy has since been renamed Gold Medal Brandy.

However, brandy is a "foreign wine" after all. It will take a long time for it to be accepted and recognized by the Chinese people. Moreover, the brandy process is complicated and the brewing cost is high, so the price is higher than that of liquor. , the scale of brandy production has always been small.

After the 1980s, the reform and opening up opened the country wide. Views and items starting with the word "foreign" were quickly accepted in the country. Imported brandy flooded into the domestic market rapidly, impacting the domestic brandy market. , also enabled the development of domestic understanding of brandy and domestic brandy production, and brandy production volume is expanding year by year.

On April 21, the first international brandy blind tasting hosted by the China Brewing Industry Association was held in Guangzhou. In the V.S.O.P level blind tasting competition, Rémy Martin, Martell, Changyu Keya, PepsiCo and Hennessy ranked in the top five.

In the blind tasting competition at the X.O level, Rémy Martin, Hennessy, Pepsi, Martell, and Monsieur Louis ranked in the top five, and Changyu Keya X.O ranked sixth. Judging from the blind evaluation results, domestic brandy shows strong development momentum.

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