Among the various brands of wines I have tasted, the style of Shede wine is undoubtedly the most, and today I will comb through the Tuopai and Shede wine of various genres that I have tasted by telling the story of Shede Wine.
Speaking of Shede Wine, its predecessor is Tuopai Qujiu, and now Shede Liquor also uses this brand, but it is mainly used as a low-end wine. Tuopai Distillery was established in December 1951, located in Tuopai Town, Shehong County, Suining City, Sichuan Province, which is a distillery that mainly produces Daqu aromatic liquor, and in the fifth appraisal meeting in 1989, Tuopai Qujiu won the title of "Chinese Famous Wine" as the second in the fragrant group. It is not easy for Tuopai to obtain this title, after all, There is no shortage of fragrant wines in Sichuan, and it takes strong skill to stand out from it.
Speaking of the early Tuopai wine, its style is different from the current Shede wine, the early Tuopai wine uses sorghum and glutinous rice as raw materials, glutinous rice and rice shell mixed steaming and firing, using koji for wheat, barley medium high temperature koji, low temperature into the cellar fermentation. Since the early Tuopai wine was directly steamed with glutinous rice and rice shells in the grain, the wine body had a more obvious rice shell and caramelized aroma, and at the same time had a trace of sorghum grain aroma like red dates and glutinous rice grain aroma like rice. In addition, because it is brewed from barley and wheat with high temperature koji, the wine body has a special floral and fruity aroma of barley koji, which is very good to embellish the aroma of the wine body and make it not appear dull. In addition, the sweetness of glutinous rice is very good at neutralizing the bitterness brought about by the caramelized aroma. It is precisely because of this that the strong fragrance characteristics of the early Tuopai are very unique, and their number of roads is different from other Sichuan fragrant wines.
When it comes to the old Tuo brand style of strong wine, it is nowhere to be found in the current brand wine. Among the early liquors, only Lao Wenjun Wine and Old Duck Creek Cellar Wine were the same way. Among the three wines, the style of Lao Wenjun and Lao Tuo Pai is the closest, I will compare the Tuo Pai Qu wine in 88 with the Wenjun wine in 90 years, and I personally feel that the quality of Tuo Pai Qu wine in 88 years is better, mainly because the body of Tuo Pai wine is more balanced and delicate, and Wenjun wine is slightly rougher.
Compared with Lao Tuopai and Lao Wenjun, Lao Duck Creek Cellar Wine is more intense, but less fruity aroma of barley qu, after all, Duck Creek Cellar uses wheat qu, and it is precisely because of this that the body of Lao Duck Creek Cellar Wine is more intense and monotonous. For these three wines, it is a major genre of strong wine, which belongs to the strong style of aromatic wine, but its number of ways is different from the thick and thick flavor style with sauce and the thick and fragrant style, which is the characteristics of the rich aroma of the thick medium with scorched (with old special fragrance).
Today's Shede wine is not the old style, but it has its own personality, and its style is also different from other fragrant wines. Now Shede wine is the representative of youya fragrant wine, which uses six kinds of grain raw materials, barley and wheat to make three kinds of warm songs, namely the peach blossom song of medium temperature, the bay song of medium and high temperature (also called DanGui qu, which song is called in the end, the circle of public opinion seems to be controversial, the official friends can see that it can be explained, personal tendency to laurel song) and high temperature Chen Xiangqu, these three kinds of songs are mixed in a certain proportion, steamed and mixed, fermented into a special style of Shede strong fragrant wine.
Speaking of the three kinds of warm songs that are willing to be given, they are the result of the four seasons of song making, the temperature in spring, summer and summer and autumn is suitable for making medium and high temperature laurel songs; the summer temperature is higher, suitable for making high temperature Chen Xiangqu; the winter and spring temperature is cold, suitable for making peach blossom songs in medium temperature. For these three kinds of songs, its winemaking has different styles to present, peach blossom koji saccharification, strong fermentation, brewed wine pure, and comfortable floral and fruit aroma; Chen Xiangqu saccharification, weak fermentation, strong aroma, if the fermentation uses a large proportion of Chen Xiangqu, its wine will have a prominent roasted wheat aroma. The role and characteristics of laurel qu are between the two kinds of songs, which will play a good coordination role in the fermentation process.
It may be precisely because of the use of three kinds of warm song blending that the shede has a variety of styles. 13 years of Milan Shede wine has made a deep impression on many wine lovers, this wine has a gorgeous aroma, with outstanding pineapple fruit aroma, the wine body sweetness is prominent, is mellow, honey sweet and fruity compound sweetness. Overall, this wine cellar aroma convergence, sweet prominence, gorgeous aroma, fruity pleasant, its one change the aroma of the wine cellar is heavy, there is a cellar smell of the quality impression, is a suitable for many consumers to start the strong wine.
The opposite of the Milanese style is the swallowing of the aged wine, which takes the characteristics of chen xiangqu to the extreme, and it is precisely because of this that the wine has a prominent roasted wheat aroma. Speaking of swallowing aged liquor, it is a new aromatic liquor launched by the distillery in recent years. When this wine was just listed, many people thought that this was a fragrant wine and a sauce wine that mixed with each other, after all, the wine also had a sauce production line, and it was actually very easy to mix a fragrant wine. However, this is not the case with the tasting feeling of swallowing Chen Xiang liquor, which is a liquor based on strong aroma and highlights the characteristics of Chen Xiang, which is similar to the early Quanxing Daqu, but it does not have the sorghum grain aroma (red date flavor) highlighted by the early Quanxing Daqu. In addition, its aroma weakens the cellar aroma, and this highlights the presentation of the roasted wheat aroma, and the slight honey aroma is embellished in it, so that the aroma of the wine body does not appear dull. In terms of taste performance, this wine is a sweet and aged style, and the sweetness and the bitterness and slight astringency brought by the aging taste are well integrated. The overall style of this wine belongs to the kansai sake, but the number of paths is different from the common kansai sake. On the basis of the original aromatic wine process, it integrates the accumulation fermentation, increases the proportion of high-temperature chenxiangqu, improves the acidity of the cellar and slowly ferments, so that the wine aged is prominent and smooth to drink.
Of course, more shede wine is a kind of modest and elegant presentation, taste shede wine is a representative of this style, its cellar aroma, bad aroma performance is not strong, which makes its aroma appear elegant. Pineapple, honey and roasted wheat aromas are a good blend, resulting in a rich and stale body. In terms of taste performance, this wine is characterized by sweetness and aging. The overall taste is a transition between the fragrant Milan willingness and the Chen Shuo swallowing, which is also the characteristic of most willing to be rich wines.
In the Shede series of wines that show the characteristics of both aromas, in addition to the Chen Xiang series of wines, I personally feel that the 12-year batch of Founding Party Shede wine is also in this style. Although this wine is labeled as a strong aromatic liquor, I personally feel that it belongs to the liquor from the quality presentation. It is characterized by the fusion of fragrant wine and sauce wine, its thickness type is the standard shede strong wine characteristics, and its sauce aroma has a clear sauce flavor, which is more common in sauce tail round wine and sand wine. Overall, this wine is good, it is the characteristics of thick and sauce, but the style is general, its bad aroma is abrupt, the coordination of cellar aroma is general, and it is precisely because of this that this wine style of the founding party has only appeared in this commemorative product, and then other shede products have not appeared in this style of wine.
When it comes to sake, we not only brew fragrant sake, but also sauce sake. For the sauce wine, it was produced around 2000, and the early swallowing of the wine was filled with its sauce products. For the early swallowing of sauce wine, its road number to take the characteristics of the 90s Lang wine, to my hand in 2008 swallowed wine as an example, this wine has a strong aroma, the scorched paste aroma is prominent, and the sauce aroma and Chen xiang are well coordinated. The body of the wine has a caramel-sweet taste, which feels like caramel, and the tail taste has a faint burnt aftertaste. Overall, this wine highlights the scorched paste and sweetness, and the pure sauce aroma and quxiang aroma of the wine body are not prominent, showing a rich style sauce wine.
In contrast, the current Shede sauce wine is not as heavy as before, its overall body is soft and elegant, and some wine friends have sent me a sample of acrylic sauce fragrant wine. Tasting this wine, it gives me the feeling that the caramelized paste aroma is significantly weaker than the 2008 swallowed wine, the aroma of the wine body appears elegant, it is a combination of pure sauce, cellar bottom incense, caramel, paste, honey and Chen Quxiang, these aromas are relatively weak, but balanced and coordinated with each other. The overall characteristics of this wine are a bit biased towards the 80s Lang wine, but it lacks the ginseng aroma and outstanding honey sweet aroma of the 80s Lao Lang wine, so this wine is only soft and elegant, but lacks sweetness and pleasure. Compared with the swallowing of wine in 2008, the burnt taste of this wine is obviously weak.
In general, Shede wine is the main production of strong aroma, auxiliary production of sauce aroma of the wine company, its strong aroma is three kinds of warm song mixed fermentation, because the three kinds of song fermentation will produce different aroma characteristics, so adjust the use of the three kinds of music ratio so that the distillery brewed different styles of wine. There are sweet and soft, gorgeous Milan willingness, Chen Xiang's prominent swallowing of Chen Xiang, and soft and balanced taste willingness. In addition, the early Tuopai liquor process was executed differently from the present, resulting in the production of a strong aromatic wine with a strong old (heavy caramel) style. For the sauce wine of Shede, more learning langjiu craft comes, the early style is close to the 90s langjiu, weakening the quxiang, the scorched paste taste is prominent, showing the caramel taste; the current Shede sauce liquor is more soft and elegant, and this is a bit close to the characteristics of the 80s langjiu. Finally, regarding my understanding of the quality of Tuopai and Shede wine in different periods, what do you think as a wine lover and industry? Welcome to leave a message in the message area, we discuss together.