Introduction: What is the difference between old wine and vintage wine? Stop being silly and indistinguishable, and spend less money after reading it
"Wine is the fragrance of aging", I believe that people who love wine are badly remembered. In other words, old wine has become synonymous with "good wine".
With the high development of liquor, large and small brands are flooding around us, giving us more choices.
But when enriching people's drinking needs, a variety of liquor professional terms have also been "developed", which makes people dizzy.
For example, old wine and vintage wine, both of which highlight the attribute of "time is long", naturally reminiscent of "wine is the fragrance of aging".
Therefore, many times, people will mistakenly think that vintage wine is old wine, in fact, there is a big difference between the two, today I will talk to you about some things about old wine and vintage wine, and avoid spending less money after reading it.
Let's look at the old wine first, what kind of wine is the old wine?
According to the understanding of normal people, the wine that has just been brewed is old wine after a long period of storage and aging.
Generally speaking, wines that have been stored for more than 15 years are considered old.
After years of precipitation, the quality and taste of the old wine will go up several steps, the value is naturally getting higher and higher, and the quality is excellent and can even be stored for hundreds of years.
Of course, the prerequisite here is that the grain wine brewed by the pure grain process is not a liquor mixed with alcohol, otherwise it would be a tragedy.
Looking at vintage wines, let's start with the source.
The author checked the information and found that earlier liquor did not have the saying that vintage wine, which was popular among foreign foreign wines at that time, such as wine, brandy, whiskey and other liquors, is a concept of hierarchy.
In the 1990s, some liquors gained independent pricing power, and Chinese liquor opened the road to high-end, and the quality of liquor is naturally not a problem, but how to achieve a high-end transition of their own liquor?
At this time, some well-known wine companies found that the concept of Western vintage wine was very good, and with the spirit of "take it and use it", they successively launched 10-year, 20-year, 30-year vintage wines and so on.
As a result, the market response is not bad, but also to raise the brand image of the wine, the brand to achieve high-end is just around the corner.
Xiaobian felt that at that time, it may be that the public thought that vintage wine is old wine, and the larger the vintage, the better the quality!
At this time, other domestic wine companies can't sit still and start to follow the trend, so you will see that many high-end wines today will be labeled as vintage wines, as if if they do not write the year, they are not high-end wines.
So the question is, what exactly is vintage wine?
As mentioned earlier, many people think that the higher the number, the better the quality of the wine, and they will feel that it has been stored for so many years.
For example, Moutai 15 years, people usually understand: this wine has been stored for 15 years.
In fact, this is a wrong understanding!
The vintage labeled on the vintage does not mean that the whole bottle of wine has been stored for so long, but the base wine of this vintage is used to check it.
The proportion added is by no means 100%, and the body must also be mixed with other vintage base wines, flavored wines and new wines.
This is the essential difference between vintage wine and old wine.
Vintage wines also have many advantages:
From the perspective of enterprises, the different years and proportions of base wine can be gradientized to make different quality liquors, thereby expanding the product line, meeting the needs of various groups of people, and ultimately increasing market share.
For us consumers, we can also intuitively feel the quality of the wine through specific years, so that people feel that it is worth the money and do it in the chest.
Finally, tell everyone that it is best to buy vintage wine to look for high-end well-known brands, the quality is guaranteed, low-end liquor is not recommended, the market is more chaotic, many years are chaotic, rubbing edge balls or Zhang Guan Li Dai.
In summary, old wine and vintage wine are two different concepts, of course, there is also a common point, that is: wine is precious!