In June and July every year, the warm and humid air flow of the Pacific Ocean brought by the southeast monsoon makes the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River appear in continuous rainy weather, and it coincides with the ripening period of plums in the south of the Yangtze River, so it is called "plum rain". The green plums that are born according to the season, sweet and sour, are in harmony, and they are full of relish. In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", a sentence that has been passed down for thousands of years "green plum boiled wine on heroes" has made green plum wine engraved into the DNA of Chinese. In this way, Qingmei has become a representative of the mood from a natural object, whether it is as an ingredient or a cultural symbol, it has long penetrated into all aspects of life.
China is the origin of green plums, and as the best spokesperson for the rainy season, green plums have been cultivated for at least 3,000 years. Green plum is a set of edible and medicinal value in one of the fruits, Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" recorded: "plum, the fruit of blood, stomach, lungs, warm spleen, stop bleeding and phlegm, reduce swelling and detoxification, shengjin quenches thirst, cures cough and diarrhea."
However, it is our neighbor Japan that likes to eat green plums the most. Japanese plums were passed over from China, and during the Tang Dynasty, Tang envoys were sent from the Central Plains to bring them back to Japan, and the Japanese fell in love with the fruit ever since. Anyone who has lived in Japan knows that green plums are an indispensable necessity in Japan's daily diet, and even for three meals a day, Japanese people use plums as appetizers, dipping sauces, seasonings, and after-dinner meals. According to statistics, Japan consumes more than 600,000 tons of green plums every year, making it the world's largest producer and consumer of green plums. Therefore, Japan's own green plums are simply not enough to eat, and it needs to be imported from other countries, especially China, the only birthplace of green plums. Because in China, there is the largest number of green plums in the world, and there are the best varieties of native green plums.
In order to make the best plum wine, Umemi, the head brand of domestic plum wine, spent several years looking for the most suitable green plum from the source, and opened an extraordinary road to find plums. Nearly 200 species of native green plums in China have been studied by them one by one. Some of them are suitable for making pickles, some are suitable for adding a little sweetness to make preserved fruits, and there are actually very few green plums suitable for winemaking. In the end, Umemi selected only 10 kinds of ancient early plums native to China to make plum wine.
According to Mei Jian, these Chinese native ancient green plums have four characteristics:
First of all, it is ancient, each of which is of Chinese origin and has a long history, and is the king of nature's screening.
The second is purebred, and purebred green plums are closer to the taste of ancient green plums. What is touching is that at the moment when you drink plum blossoms, Li Bai may have eaten the same green plum as you, and Li Qingzhao has sniffed the same taste as you. This is the inheritance of Chinese culture, and it is a kind of inheritance that can be drunk.
The third is wild, the wild growth environment can further screen the green plum, pests and diseases can not be contaminated, this is the power of genes, and this point also has a word called forced organic.
The most important physical properties are high acids, which are extremely acidic.
Meijian has just launched a series of original fruit and original brewing products, that is, using these 10 kinds of Chinese native ancient early green plums as raw materials, with 2-year-old handmade single sorghum wine as the base wine, the whole brewing process does not use any additives, and is aged for more than one year in the pottery jar, the container that can best accommodate the acidity of green plums, presenting the original taste of Chinese terroir. In early summer, with a bottle of "Original Fruit and Original Brew", you can also regain the elegance of the ancients.