In order to make the best bottle of plum wine, it took six years for Umemi to build 4 green plum planting bases across the country, the largest plum wine factory in China, and the world's largest vintage plum wine pottery cellar.
These are not only hardware investments, but most importantly, Umemi has systematically summarized the brewing methods of the past six years, and summed up the "Umemi Original Fruit Brewing Method" that can make a good bottle of plum wine, showing the world Umemi's new products, new high-end brands, and new paths for future development.
Recently, Umemi has launched a series of products called "Original Fruit Brewing", including 12% original plum wine, 14% oak barrel plum wine, and 15% whiskey plum wine, all of which are made using the original Umemi original fruit brewing method.
Relying on the core technique of "Umemi Original Fruit Brewing Method", Umemi showed the public its sincerity and efforts in product innovation: 10 kinds of Chinese native ancient early green plum as raw materials, 2-year-old handmade single sorghum wine as the base wine, the whole brewing process does not use any additives, and it is aged for more than one year in the pottery jar, the container that can best accommodate the acidity of green plums.
4 green plum planting bases
China is a large plum-producing country, with more than 100 varieties of native green plums, including planted plums, ancient plums, wild plums, etc. The flavor of each green plum comes from the encounter with the local water and soil, and they are mutually fulfilling and inseparable, resulting in the unique flavor characteristics of each production area.
How to choose the right green plum is the first step in Umemi winemaking, for which it took 10 years to do a lot of basic preparation and build a planting base to control the quality from the source.
Umemi traveled almost all over China's green plum producing areas, and after more than 1,700 flavor studies and tests, the top 10 plum varieties were finally selected. Today, Meijian has established its own green plum planting bases in Puning, Guangdong, Dayi, Sichuan, Zhao'an, Fujian and Eryuan, Yunnan, and has also established research institutes and R&D systems.
The world's largest pottery cellar
In 2023, Umemi established the world's largest plum wine pottery jar wine cellar. It is understood that the choice of the pottery altar as the aging container is because there are many breathing pores on the wall of the pottery altar, which increases the amount of micro-oxygen infiltration, so that this bottle of plum can be the most mellow and conducive to the aging of the wine.
When 8 ripe new green plum picking fruit immediately clean and remove the stem, and then with a single sorghum wine, yellow rock sugar together into the Longchang pottery altar, the original fruit is pure soaking, low temperature slowly extracted plum fragrance, the product fruit is bright, sour taste into the soul.
The unique material of the pottery altar is made of high-quality clay sintered at high temperature, which is not only structurally stable, safe and hygienic, but also has excellent ventilation and thermal insulation effect. What's even more commendable is that the ceramic jar will form a microporous network structure during the firing process, which can slowly introduce external oxygen to promote the esterification reaction and other chemical reactions of the wine, so that the quality of the wine can be significantly improved, and the taste will be more mellow.
Traditionally, ceramic wine jars have always been an important carrier of mainland wine culture. Since ancient times, ceramic wine jars have been regarded as the best storage vessels for wine, and they have witnessed the development and inheritance of winemaking techniques.