[China Packaging Network News] There are so many wines in the world. It is difficult for average consumers to remember the names of each winery and wine. When faced with a completely strange wine, how to judge the wine from the appearance? The grade, and the value is not worth it?
Although modern wines are more or less exquisite in terms of their packaging, we can still see some information about the quality of the wines from the details of the outer packaging of the bottles.
Wine cap
The wine cap, also known as bottle cap, is a coat of wine that seals the wine stopper outside the wine bottle mouth. The most popular wine caps on the market are plastic, aluminum foil and wax seals. Some are even plastic or aluminum foils with double layers or double aluminum foils.
Basically, when we see the aluminum foil and the wax-capped wine cap, we can infer that the wine is better than the plastic cap at least in old age. In general, plastic wine caps are common in some entry-level wines, and in France, they are wines of wine or regional wines.
Therefore, if you look at the wine covered in plastic wine caps, you can probably judge that this is a more basic bottle of wine that is suitable for instant drinking and cannot be stored for a long time. Generally, the drinkable period of this kind of wine is 2-3 years. If you see more than this number of years, it is very likely that the wine has lost its freshness and passed the drinkable period.
Wine stopper
Do not look at small wine stoppers, in fact, revealed quite a lot of information. The material of wine stoppers today is much richer than in the past, including plastic stoppers, cork stoppers, and metal screw stoppers. These wine stoppers have their own advantages, so the winery will choose the appropriate wine stopper according to the needs of different wine types and aging.
Plastic plug
It is airtight and cheap. This type of plug is generally suitable for wines that do not need aging and can be freshly consumed.
Metal screw plug
Such plugs are increasingly appearing in the market. Its advantage is that it does not have a cork smell, and it cuts off oxygen and delays the evolution period. In some new world countries such as New Zealand and Australia, more and more high-end wines also use screw plugs. Therefore, for many places of wine, it is not a standard to judge the quality of wine.
Cork
Cork is a widely used traditional wine stopper. Cork is also divided into many types, such as polymer plugs, which are made by compressing oak chips; micro plugs are used to pulverize cork particles and bond them. These mussels are characterized by high density and low price, and they are also suitable for some basic types of wine that are suitable for fresh drinking.
The most traditional is the original cork stopper. This type of oak stopper has a wide range of applications. Generally speaking, the texture on the oak plug can be used to determine the quality of the oak stopper and thus the quality of the wine. Generally soft and hard texture moderate, less wooden eyes, belonging to high-quality oak plug. And its length is also stress. It is generally expected that after a long period of time, a longer cork will be used.
The DIAM plug, which is a relatively new type of cork, is a method in which the cork particles are ground into a powder and the substance causing the cork flavor is extracted, and the oxygen permeability is also improved. This will also be the choice of many high-end wines.
Wine labels
Wine labels are the most intuitive part of wine information. The production area, grade, year, and the name of the winery displayed on the wine label can all reflect the quality of the wine. For some wine producing countries with meticulous grading systems and production areas, such as France and Italy, people can even guess the approximate price from the label.
The heavier the bottle, the more upscale the wine? This seems to be the correct logic, after all, the heavier the bottle, the higher the cost of the bottle itself. However, there are also many manufacturers who are trying to attract consumers to cost their product packaging. Therefore, in the market, high-end wines and low-end wines do not differ much in terms of bottles.
However, some wine traders are now proposing that the use of cheap wine and fine wine is almost the same, which will reduce consumer satisfaction. It is recommended to implement the “Bottle Weight Grading Systemâ€â€”low-priced wines are bottled in lightweight wine bottles and high-grade wines are bottled in heavy wine bottles. If it is really implemented, this may become an important indicator of the future assessment of wine quality.
Is the deep groove in the bottom of the bottle a sign of good wine?
Usually there is a deep or shallow groove in the bottom of wine bottles, but some bottles are flat at the bottom and have no grooves. So is this one of the criteria for the quality of wine?
This we must first talk about the role of the groove.
In general, the grooves of the bottle have two roles, one of which is to allow the bottle to stand firm. Because the previous glass bottle was artificially blown. The bottom of the bottle is recessed so that the bottle can stand steadily on the table. Modern technology can already achieve a stable stand even if the bottom of the bottle is flat.
The second is that for some old wines, there is a function of collecting slags in the groove area. When the wine is poured, the wine slag can get stuck in the groove, so that it will not spread under the impact of the bottom liquor to the entire bottle of liquor. in. On the other hand, the size of the groove is related to the volume of the bottle itself. Normal wine bottles can hold 750ML wines. Therefore, in order to ensure a quantitative volume, if the bottle body is larger, the deeper the groove at the bottom of the bottle.
Therefore, the above points, the depth of the groove can not determine the level of wine. One example is the high-end wine CRISTAL of Louis Puri Champagne. The bottom of the bottle is not only deep, but completely flat.
Of course, some of the methods of judging the appearance of wines mentioned above are a summary of the experience of most of the wines on the market. There are also a small number of unconventional wineries that will make special packaging, which requires further understanding and advice on wine. In short, judging the quality of wine, appearance is only an aid, and the most important thing is to judge by tasting.