The people of Shaoxing in the Song Dynasty love to drink and make wine. If they have a daughter at home, on the day of the full moon, the owner will choose a few bottles of good wine to seal and bury it underground.
When your daughter gets married, she will entertain relatives and friends. This wine is named "Daughter Red".
Moreover, because Daughter Red has been stored for a long time, it tastes mellow and rich in fragrance, and is very popular.
Many friends who love wine can buy it at a high cost in order to drink aged wine like their daughter's red. But wine is easy to find, and old wine that can be preserved is hard to find.
In June 1996, in the Northeast region, workers discovered a cellar wine that was hundreds of years old. Do you know how fragrant it is?
It is said that when the workers discovered it, they were all intoxicated by the fragrance!
At that time, Lingchuan winery in Jinzhou, Liaoning moved, and the winery originally planned to convert it into a small hardware market.
Unexpectedly, the workers were working hard, and suddenly someone shouted: "What's the ground? It's so hard that the hoe can't be hoed."
It turned out that when a worker's pickaxe was dug to 80 cm deep underground, the hoe could no longer be dug! I carefully opened the mound and saw that it was an erect wooden board! When everyone came to see it, the intoxicating smell of wine came to their faces.
Everyone quickly put down their hoes and dig out the soil, but found a huge sea of wooden wine in the pit.
Everyone wanted to go up and open the Mujiuhai, but the factory manager pulled it away. The factory manager was worried that it was a valuable item, so he asked people to open it carefully to see what wine was contained inside.
When everyone opened the Mujiuhai! The wooden wine sea contains at least 4.5 tons of white wine, no wonder the wine is fragrant.
Later, the factory director invited cultural relics experts to identify that the wine in the box was produced in 1845, which is the 25th year of in the Qing Dynasty. By the day of discovery, there was a 151-year history of cellaring.
So, so much wine is buried deep underground for so many years, why hasn’t it evaporated or changed? How did the craftsmen of the Qing Dynasty preserve them?
Friends who know about liquor know that liquor is something that can be easily evaporated, and the alcohol contained in it is very easy to evaporate, so the preservation process needs to be very particular.
Moreover, after storage for several years or even longer, the taste of the wine will become lighter and lighter, so low-alcohol wine is not suitable for storage, while high-alcohol wine is suitable for long-term storage, especially sauce-flavored and strong-flavored wines around 53 degrees.
The wines from the Qing Dynasty were exactly 53 degrees, and the box containing the wine was made of red pine wood.
The ancients used red pine wood to make wooden wine sea, and they had their very unique considerations.
Red pine wood is tight in texture and corrosion-resistant and moisture-resistant. After soaking rice paper in bucks' blood, the craftsmen brushed multiple layers on the mouth wall and surroundings, greatly improving the sealing.
After isolating humidity and low temperatures, the wine becomes more and more intense and the taste becomes more fragrant.
Given that this 4.5 tons of liquor has a mellow taste, it is the longest-sealed Chinese wine in the world. Therefore, in 1998, the country identified this batch of wine as a "liquid national treasure", which is also the only liquid cultural relic in my country.
With an extremely cherished mood, Lingchuan Winery donated 10 kilograms of raw wine and 1 wooden wine to the National History Museum for collection. The other 86 kilograms of raw wine were auctioned with approval, with a total income of 3.5 million yuan.
Speaking of which, Lingchuan Winery has a long history of brewing wine.
More than 1,300 years ago, people in the Northeast liked to call wine-making workshops "burning pots". In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, more and more workshops made cooking pots, and the most famous ones were Jinzhou 's "Tongsheng Jin roasting pot". After the liberation of
, "Tongsheng Jin Shao Pot" was renamed Lingchuan Winery. It uses the traditional brewing process of Manchu , brewed with grains from Northeast specialties, and used wooden wine sea to store it for more than 3 years to make Lingchuan wine.
More than a hundred years of development and proficient winemaking technology have made Lingchuan Winery a leading winery for Northeast winemaking enterprises, and it is undoubtedly the representative of the highest level of Northeast winemaking industry.
Moreover, taking advantage of the east wind of discovering national treasure wine, Lingchuan winery became famous and used this 3.5 million to create the new brand " Daoguang 25 ". Now, "Daoguang 25" has become one of the representatives of the Northeast region.
The batch of wine discovered by Lingchuan Winery that year allowed us to see the wisdom of the ancients in storing wine, and also allowed more people to understand our country's liquor culture.
Fortunately, with the advancement of technology, it is much more convenient for us to preserve white wine now than the ancients. Common ones include glass bottles and porcelain bottles. Their sealing properties are very good. If you want to be safer, use plastic wrap or professional sealing film , the effect will be better.
However, if you want to save wine, you must not bury the bottle in the soil like the one performed in the TV series. You still have to find a ventilated, cool and dry place to save a heirloom wine for your own home!
If you have any other opinions on the storage of wine, please add it!
