Liquid alcoholic beverages dating back 8,000 years, throughout history, witnessed change and became synonymous with elegance and gentlemanhood. Speaking of this, smart wine lovers have long understood that this is not the wine I often drink! Say so mysterious!
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After drinking wine for such a long time, Xiaobian quickly went to understand the long history of wine and avoided the timidity of the winery! For people who are just getting started, there are many things they don't understand, and they are instantly confused when they see so many wine varieties. So, what is the difference between red wine and white wine? What exactly is wine? This series of questions seems simple, but can you answer them all?
1. Wine making conditions
Most people know that wine originated in Europe, as do the grape varieties used around the world today, so a lot of questions about European wines are not difficult to understand if you look at wines in a historical context. Wines are made in southern Mediterranean regions, such as Italy and Spain, with record histories of winemaking, with the largest but also the largest production of native grapes grown. However, the best wines in Europe always come from the colder regions of the north, such as France and Germany.
In fact, the southern Mediterranean region: Italy and Spain, have a long history of winemaking, the original grape scale is large, the wine production is also large. Wine lovers can pay attention to the appellation when choosing wines, and european wines with good quality are generally in the colder regions of the north, such as France and Germany. Some of these special grapes are made into small amounts of delicate wine. This pattern stems from two factors in the Middle Ages – one is the environment and the other is socio-economic:
2. What is wine?
Seeing this problem, I am afraid that I am not going to play a small editor, who can not know this? Indeed, basically 90% of people now know what wine is, and we are indispensable at the dinner table during the New Year's Festival, but we will seriously clarify the more accurate definition of wine.
In 1996, the International Organisation of Vine and Wine established that wine is an alcoholic beverage made from alcoholic fermentation of fresh grape fruit or grape juice, either broken or unbroken, typically in the range of 8.5% to 16.2%. Of course, some wines may also have an alcohol content of less than 7% due to specific factors such as different soil conditions, climate, grape varieties and regional traditions.
Chinese national standard for wine GB15037-2006 stipulates: Wine is made from fresh grapes or grape juice as raw materials, after fermentation, and is also a fermented wine with a certain degree of alcohol.
The Oxford Companion to Wine, written by the international wine master The Oxford Companion to Wine, defines it simply as wine as an alcoholic beverage fermented from grape juice.
It can be seen that the above definition does not have too many restrictions on the type of grapes, but the majority of wine lovers need to know one thing: wine is generally made from wine grapes, and we usually eat grapes that are rarely used to make wine.
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