One day, a friend brought out a bottle of good wine he had just bought to entertain everyone. Expectantly, he opened the wine and poured a glass for everyone.
We picked up the wine glass and began to look at the color and smell the fragrance, but found that there was no fruit in the wine, and there was a not very good smell.
The friend picked up the cup and sniffed it, and also found something strange, and his face was ugly.
As a "brick family", I hurriedly comforted him: this is no problem, just "faint bottle", after a while it will be fine.
Will wine stun? It sounds a bit mysterious, but there really is such a thing!
What is a halo bottle?
Halo bottle, the English term is "Bottle-shock", "Bottle-sickness" or "Bottle-stink". Wines that have been haloed or have a loose or inattentive aroma, appear loose in structure, and are lifeless, often described as "muted" (muted). This situation is more likely to occur in wines that have just been bottled and wines that have been transported over long distances.
The practical science of the principle of halo occurrence cannot be explained. But what is certain is that the wine contains various compounds from the grape variety itself, such as tannins, pigments, etc.
Wine is a living drink, in which the material composition is the cornerstone of the complex flavor of wine, these substances constantly interact, the accumulation of time (aging) and environmental changes (light, heat, vibration) will affect its material composition.
Freshly bottled wines are prone to viscousness.
Some people believe that this is because when the wine is bottled, the wine undergoes vibration, dissolving a large amount of oxygen, and sulfur dioxide needs to be added to prevent oxidation. Drink it within a few weeks after bottling, the taste of sulfur dioxide will be very obvious, and it is necessary to wait until sulfur dioxide reacts with oxygen before drinking.
It is also believed that halos are caused by the vibration process in bottling. Fiona Morrison MW from Le Pin points out that Lippen uses very little sulfur when bottling, and that the vignetting may be due to the vibration process during bottling that destroys the phenolic compound chains (mainly tannins and pigments) in the wine, and that it takes time to repair these compound chains.
Another cause of bottle sickness is long-distance transportation, including trucking, shipping and air transportation. The continuous vibration in long-distance transportation will break the original balance of the wine, and the wine is like a person who is motion sick and cannot immediately recover from the turbulence, and the opening of the bottle is often loose in aroma and structure, dull and lifeless. Fragile aged wines are particularly prone to this phenomenon.
Bernard de Laage of Chateau Palmer holds a similar view. He said that the halo bottle is related to the quality of the cork, transportation and storage conditions. It is difficult to determine when the wine will appear to be vitted, but once the wine is transported, it often does not immediately show its best condition.
So, what if the wine is stunded? Don't worry, the bottle is only a temporary phenomenon. There is no quality problem with the bottle of halo, it only needs to be stored in a suitable environment for 2-3 weeks to automatically rejuvenate.
There is a 2008 movie called "Bottle Shock", which Chinese translated as "Wine Industry Storm". But the film has nothing to do with the halo bottle, but is based on the famous "Judgement of Paris." In 1976, the little-known California wines defeated many of the top French wines that were then and are now the best in France in a blind tasting, and the judges were mainly French wine experts.
However, halo bottles are different from the Dumb phase that wines undergo when they age. When the wine ages, it goes from young to mature, and it goes through a stage where the aroma and flavor are very closed. In Bordeaux this phenomenon is called "ageingrat", just as teenagers grow up going through a period of rebellion. After the wine enters the closed period, it cannot be awakened by leaving it for a few days or decanting the wine, but can only wait patiently. However, there is no fixed law to follow when this closure period occurs and how long it will last.
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A bottle of wine is not good after opening, in addition to the bottle of halo, what reason do you think there is?