A high-end wine container that has been used for hundreds of years
There are many containers for wine, speaking of wine sea, it is a high-quality wine storage container that has lasted for hundreds of years, mainly storing high-quality base wine and seasoned wine, because it is much larger than the wine bottle and wine altar, because of the amount of wine, it is called "sea", a wine sea can store 6 to 8 tons of wine. For hundreds of years, the use of wine in the sea has been deeply loved by emperors and generals, dignitaries and ordinary people.
Some old wineries in the north can see the sea of wine, due to the scarcity of wine in the sea of wine today, the wine sea storage wine is currently mainly used as a seasoned wine, just like stir-frying, cooking and sesame oil to enhance the taste, people use the base wine in the wine sea for seasoning, as long as a little bit is added, it can play a finishing role in the wine.
Jiuhai is a cabinet-like utensil made of red pine planks through the traditional process of tenon bite, and the four corners are wrapped with cowhide and rivets, and the workmanship is very exquisite. The inner wall surface is made of mulberry rice paper, which is made of deer blood, egg whites, beeswax and other organic substances and mounted paste. The texture of red pine is straight, not easy to deform, rich in pine oil, not easy to leak. The inner wall surface layer of deer blood, egg white, beeswax and other organic slurries contains many substances beneficial to the human body, which also makes the wine not in contact with metals, which is conducive to the esterification of wine, the storage of wine, and is more beneficial to human health.
After a hundred years of use, muhai has formed a superior environment conducive to the growth of beneficial microorganisms, so that the curing reaction process of the wine body is smooth and uniform, so that the flavor of the original wine stored in it is more mellow. Modern technology has been unable to replicate the craftsmanship of the wooden sea, and has even become an intangible cultural heritage.
The wine sea has been taking the original wine and adding new wine from the time of use, and it is necessary to keep the wine sea from drying. During long-term storage, the ordinary redox reaction that occurs in liquor maintains the unique acid-base balance of the wine body and makes the tibetan wine more mellow. The inner tank is flexible due to the moisture of the wine over the years, and once there is no wine, it will dry and break.
Because of the high cost and the modern process was abandoned, it existed only in a few old wineries
In the past, many fragrant and fragrant liquors in the north were stored with the sea of wine. Compared with ordinary large-capacity ceramic utensils, the production of each "wine sea" has to go through complicated craftsmanship, which will consume more than half a year's time of the producer, so the cost is very expensive, and it is not conducive to the storage of liquor produced in large quantities in today's industrialization, so this technique has been abandoned and lost by today's distilleries, and the existing wine sea of individual old distilleries can be said to be very valuable.
So what are the advantages of using the sea of wine storage?
The role of the sea of wine
1. The sea of wine can age the body of liquor, maintain the acid-base balance, and make the taste more mellow
As with the efficacy of pottery storage, liquor storage in the "wine sea" occurs in the ordinary redox reaction, molecular association reaction, esterification reaction and other processes, maintaining the unique acid-base balance of the wine body, promoting the close combination of ethanol and water molecules, so that the dry and spicy taste of the wine is reduced and more mellow.
2. The sea of wine can give liquor a special "taste of wine and sea", enriching the aroma of liquor
Due to the special material of the wine sea, the unique aroma components dissolved from the "wine sea" to the wine also play a certain role in the flavor of the wine. The sealing wax in the wine sea brings a unique honey aroma to the wine body, and in addition, the cotton cloth and hemp paper in the wine sea bring the fragrance of the plant to the stored wine body. The compound aroma given by these wine seas enriches the aroma of liquor, making it have a unique atmosphere, which is called jiuhai flavor. This is something that cannot be done with the storage of the current pottery altar.
3. The wine sea brightens the color of liquor and brings a crystal yellowish bright color
The sea of wine will bring a special color to the body of the wine, and the wine stored in it will have a yellowish color, which is not like the yellow of sauce-flavored liquor such as soybean oil, but a fluorescent yellow like a crystal wax.
Is all liquor suitable for storage in the sea of wood wine?
Not all liquors are suitable for wine storage, because the sea of liquor will have an impact on the flavor of the stored liquor.
The sea of wine brings the most positive bonus to the wine of Fengxiang, and even becomes a must-have taste of traditional Fengxiang; For example, in the middle and high-end wine of Xifeng, it can be felt.
The fragrant wine stored in the wine sea will appear slightly less fresh and clean, but the whole will also give more positive influences;
The wine sea storage for the northern winery produced by the strong wine, the role of incense is very outstanding, the wine sea breath can give the wine body a sense of pleasure;
The sesame flavor and sauce aroma are not suitable for wine sea storage, because the wine sea reduces the acidity of these wines and affects its stale and elegant flavor, so this fusion is not appropriate enough, and the orientation of its aroma pursuit is biased.
Which wines can taste the taste of the sea of wood wine? Try some representative wines
Here are 4 typical representatives, all of whom have a wine and sea flavor. You can feel the aroma of the sea of wine accordingly.
Including the phoenix-scented "Xifeng wine beauty head"; Fragrant "Lianzhou Palace Wine Daxian"; Sauce-flavored "Longbin wine, Putian Tongqing"; And the Zhixiang type of "Lanling Nine Dynasties Chen Xiang".
On the whole, the wine sea has a certain role in giving incense to the wine sea, which can bring honey and sweetness to the wine body, if it is a wine with a strong taste, the impact is small, and the phoenix type and the strong aroma type produced by the northern distillery are the biggest beneficiaries, followed by the fragrance type.