Did you know that plum wine, which originated in China, has been popularized in Japan and has become one of the most popular liquors in Japan. Plum wine has a sweet and sour taste, and the alcohol content is not high, so even people who are not good at drinking alcohol can accept it, so the Japanese plum wine industry is extremely developed, and there are many varieties.
Those who like to drink plum wine must be familiar with the words "Benge plum wine". Benge plum wine, also known as authentic plum wine, is a Japanese classification of plum wine. In 2015, the Japan Sake Brewery Association established the "Umeshu-related Voluntary Standards", which stipulates that plum wine that uses only "plums, sugar, and alcohol" as "honka-ume-sake" is called "honka-ume-sake". In other words, this plum sake is brewed without any additives other than plums, sugar, and base sake (with an alcohol content of 20% or more), and the plum wine is brewed for a certain period of time.
Due to the popularity of Japanese plum wine, many consumers pay great attention to whether there is a "Benge plum wine" logo on the outer packaging in order to buy authentic plum wine with pure flavor when choosing. In China, the head brand of plum wine, Umemi, has taken the lead in promoting the establishment of industry standards with its own efforts: from the strict requirements of products, processes, technologies and other links, Umemi has also started from the self-discipline of the factory standard, not only establishing the world's largest Tanzang green plum wine warehouse, but also releasing the value system standard of aged plum wine, so that the value of green plum wine can be further upgraded.
Recently, Umemi has launched a series of "Original Fruit Original Brewing" products, using the "Umemi Original Fruit Original Brewing Method", which systematically summarizes the brewing methods in the past 6 years, and summarizes the "Original Fruit Original Brewing Standard" that can make a good bottle of plum wine, compared with Japan's "Benge Plum Wine Technology", the standard of "Original Fruit Original Brewing" is more stringent:
The original fruit brew only uses ten kinds of Chinese native ancient green plum as raw materials, and the green plum category is more stringent;2. The original fruit original brew only uses 2-year-old handmade single sorghum wine as the base wine, which has the longest history of grain wine with a pure body, elegant flower and fruit aroma, and does not rob the plum fragrance, which can well stimulate the acid of green plum;3. Only choose the pottery jar as the aging container, because there are many breathing pores on the wall of the pottery altar, and increase the amount of micro-oxygen infiltration, so that this bottle of plum can be the most mellow (Benge plum wine has no requirements for this).
The original fruit brewing uses the most natural brewing method, without adding any additives, and it naturally has a good taste.
The high-quality R&D and improvement of products is the "difficult but correct thing" that Umemi always insists on doing. In fact, the biggest pain of making a new category is that the industry has not yet formed a standard. The size, diameter, completeness, and ripeness of each fruit may have a direct impact on the flavor of the sake brewed by brewing technology. Prior to this, Umemi established the Umemi Research Institute in order to find better flavors, and it took several years and more than 1,700 flavor experiments to find the best flavors...... These seemingly trivial tasks reflect the unremitting efforts of Meimi to create good products.