Many people have many doubts about the classification and grading of wine. Especially for nouns such as "Daqu" and "Tequ", many people who have drunk wine all their lives cannot tell the meaning of these words. Today, I will let you read an article:
>> special song, first song and second song refer to the level of wine quality
These three words are the nouns used by the distillery to determine the grade of a certain series of products. Among them, the special song is the best, the first song is second, and the second song is again.
These are self-made by the winery and are not legally bound and do not require the submission of any test reports. As long as it meets the national standards and production license marks for the aroma, the distillery can mark the special qu on any wine, and the special qu does not mean that the quality of the wine is necessarily good. The cross-winery comparisons are also meaningless. When we buy wine, we should not be obsessed with "special song", "first song" or "second song", but should take the quality of the wine itself as the standard.
In addition, the special song, the first song and the second song have nothing to do with the folk head wine and tail wine, the quality of the wine is not determined by the order of the wine, and the head wine and tail wine are highly toxic and should not be drunk.
>> large koji, koji, and bran koji refer to the brewing process
Daqu is the yeast of liquor fermentation. Just as we need raw materials to make dough, baijiu also needs yeast. Daqu is the yeast microbial population in liquor.
Daqu is a fermentation process. From the perspective of the use of koji, baijiu can be divided into large koji, small koji and bran koji, of which the big qu and the small qu are only the difference in size, the big qu is about the size of two bricks, and the small koji is about the size of a mahjong block.
Bran koji is the addition of bran to koji, which can shorten the fermentation cycle, increase the amount of sake, and save costs.
It can be seen that the big song, the small song and the bran song have nothing to do with the special song, the first song and the second song. We don't have to be obsessed with the type of koji when choosing sake, but we should be based on the quality of the sake itself. Don't be misled by any gimmicks.