Fake liquor is rampant in the liquor market, "mixed with fish and dragons", and the quality is uneven. How can consumers distinguish the real from the fake and prevent being deceived in the face of a dazzling array of liquor brands? Remember these liquor categories that have been included in the "fake liquor blacklist", and they must be cautious when buying!
The first type: fake Moutai series, made out of nothing
As a well-known liquor brand in mainland China, Moutai is deeply loved by consumers, so it has become the hardest hit area for the production and sale of fake liquor. There are all kinds of counterfeit Moutai on the market, most of which are produced privately by small workshops, and there is no formal origin number.
The national liquor brewed from pure grains actually contains industrial alcohol?
In 2019, a small workshop in Hunan Province was seized of fake Moutai, which was labeled as "Kweichow Moutai", but was actually assembled with industrial alcohol. This kind of alcohol is very harmful to the human body after drinking, and in severe cases, it may even lead to blindness!
The packaging logo is realistic, but don't be fooled
In June this year, a hotel in Shanghai reported that after opening a bottle of Moutai with a price tag of tens of thousands of yuan, a guest suspected that there was a problem with the wine. After testing, although the alcohol content of the wine is fine, it is not a real Moutai, but it only uses realistic packaging to deceive consumers.
The second type: fake old wine series, varied
Old liquor is favored by consumers, but the high profits also attract criminals to join the ranks of making and selling counterfeit wine. There are many types of fake old wine, and the means of production and sales are also endless, which seriously affects the interests of consumers.
The packaging has a high degree of imitation, and the origin code is carefully distinguished
There was an unscrupulous businessman who sold a batch of "Moutai 1972 bottled old liquor" on the Internet, but it was found that it was completely made of imitation packaging, and there was no so-called "1972 Moutai liquor". If you don't carefully identify the product number, you can easily be fooled.
Under the pretense of rare years, there are many sky-high sales scams
Some consumers bought a batch of old liquor with the title of "1955 Wuliangye out-of-print old liquor", and after identification, the so-called "1955" was completely fictitious, and the Wuliangye factory only officially started operation in 1957. Consumers were deceived by nearly 100,000 yuan at high prices in order to chase old wine.
The third type: fake koji wine series, which does not live up to its name
Koji liquor is favored by consumers because of its special flavor, and some unscrupulous businessmen produce and sell counterfeit koji liquor containing industrial alcohol in order to make huge profits, which seriously endangers the health of consumers.
The toxic substance exceeds the standard by 100 times, be careful of being deceived
This year, Shandong seized a batch of fake koji liquor claiming to be "Shandong Jining Xinghua Village Cellar Spring Ten Year Aging", which was detected with pesticide residues far exceeding the standard, and the methanol content exceeded the national standard by nearly 100 times, seriously exceeding the standard.
The packaging is realistic, but the product is substandard
There are also counterfeit liquor merchants who use the means of packaging imitation to make counterfeits. Previously, Guangdong seized a batch of fake koji liquor pretending to be "Guizhou Bijie Xueli Zhenjiu", and its packaging labels and bottle wine labels were imitated vividly, but the indicators of the product itself were seriously unqualified.
Fourth: fake specialty wine series, swaggering and deception
This kind of fake wine often pretends to be a local special liquor, such as fruit wine, flower wine or spring water wine in various provinces. Most of this kind of wine is made by recycling waste wine and assembling alcohol, which has serious health risks.
1. "Purple sand aging" turned out to be all alcohol
There were once counterfeit liquor manufacturers and merchants who made a large number of counterfeit liquor claiming to be "Anhui Zisha Aging", which were assembled with ordinary alcohol and water, toners, etc. The dimethylmethanol contained in these fake wines seriously exceeds the standard, which is very harmful to the human body.
2. Be cautious about "local specialties" as well
There are also people who pretend to be "local specialties" to make fake profits. Previously, Sichuan had seized a case of pretending to be "Emeishan Specialty Pear Blossom Wine", which was all made of inferior alcohol, and there was no so-called "Pear Blossom".
Dear friends, don't be deceived by all kinds of fake liquor! In the face of a dazzling array of liquor, we must carefully identify the origin code, inspection standards and other information, and don't easily believe those exaggerated propaganda. Beware of the above-mentioned types of high-incidence fake wine, beware of being deceived!