How to identify true and false red wine?

With the increasing level of domestic consumption, imported wine has become a “regular guest” on the table of the people. In 2011, the Chinese consumed a total of 1.9 billion bottles of wine, which has surpassed the United Kingdom and has become the world’s fifth largest wine consumer and eighth largest importer.

1. To see the procedure: You can ask the distributor to show the hygiene certificate of the batch of wine and the foreign origin certificate to confirm the correspondence between the goods. For all imported wines that have passed the inspection and quarantine, the inspection and quarantine agency will issue a "Certificate of Health" covering the origin of the batch of wine, the year, the type of grape, the date of filling, and other detailed information. Consumers can then tell whether the wine is Meet relevant health standards, whether it is legally imported food. In order to prevent unscrupulous personnel from falsifying counterfeit inspection and quarantine certificates, the State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) has launched a new version of inspection and quarantine certificate since January 1, 2010. The new version of the certificate has increased the characteristics of shading and anti-copying, and the pattern shading is sky blue. With features, under normal conditions, hidden features are not visible, but a clear "COPY" appears on the copy.

2. Look at the label: See if the bottle label printing is clear and whether it is fake copy. According to China's "Food Safety Law" and "Administrative Measures on the Import and Export of Food Labels", imported prepackaged foods should have Chinese labels and Chinese instructions. The content of the label must not only be exactly the same as the content of the foreign language, but must include the following items: the name of the food, the country of origin, the date of production, the shelf life, the storage guide, and the name and address of the manufacturer, packaging, packing, or distribution unit. Information on the name and address of the general distributor in China. This information must be Chinese black font. If there is no Chinese label and there is no relevant statutory label information, the more the name of the imported product, the more likely it is to be false.

3. Look at the barcode: At the beginning of 69, fill for China, 0 for the United States, 3 for France, 7 for Chile, 8 for Spain, and 9 for Australia.

4. Look at the unit of measure: Taking France as an example, its unit of measure is cl, not ml.

5. Look at the production date: The date of production of the original imported red wine is very special. For example, French red wine is generally labeled: L7296A0611:58. L7 represents 2007, 296 represents French time from the 296th day of New Year's Day, A06 represents the production line number, and 11:58 is the exact filling time of the day.

6. Look at the back of the wine label: the imported wine is affixed with the positive sign of the importing country's text, and the Chinese label on the back is affixed.

7. Look at the tightness of the wine seal: The wine seals on the original imported wine stoppers can be turned because the sealing effect is actually a cork. 8. Look at the wine solution: Check whether the color of the wine is not natural. Unknown suspended matter (Note: A little precipitate at the bottom of the bottle is a normal crystal), and the color of the deteriorated wine has a cloudy feeling.

9. Wine stopper identification: Open the bottle and see if the text on the wood stopper is the same as the text on the bottle label.

10. Smell smell: If the wine smells like nail polish, it will deteriorate.

In addition, there are some simple ways to self-test.

Alkaline method: According to the national standard, the real wine must be 100% grape juice brewing, and there will be anthocyanins in the grape juice. The anthocyanin will react chemically with the alkali, and the original purple will turn purple and black. Blue black. Therefore, if the color of wine is changed after adding food base (commonly known as soda, making bread, etc.), it means that the wine is real. Counterfeit wines are generally blended with amaranth, carmine, caramel, flavor, alcohol, cyclamate, and water. There is no bit of grape juice in the blend. The color is pigment blending, and the pigment and alkali are not. Any reaction occurs, so it will not change color.

Paper towel method: Take a good paper towel and put the wine on the paper towel. Since the red color in the original juice wine is natural pigment, the particles are very small. The wet traces spread on the paper towel are uniform red wine, no obvious The water mark spreads. Counterfeit wines are made from chemicals such as amaranth and other synthetic pigments. The pigment particles are large and precipitate in the middle of the napkin. The water traces continue to spread out. The boundary between the red area and the water mark is obvious, and we can rely on this. Simply identify genuine and fake wines.