People often say " A hundred miles of different styles, a thousand miles of different customs ". Different places are different in terms of food or customs, and even the habit of drinking.
Take Hebei as an example. They like to drink with many people and call their friends to drink happily. In addition to some serious and formal occasions, people often start cooking before the dishes are served, commonly known as two dishes and four dishes.
But in recent years, there has been a strange phenomenon on the Hebei wine table. , which made countless Hebei people proud, has become proud of. Now, is no longer , the first choice for locals to drink. Even the well-known old wine , Liu Lingzui , which once dominated Hebei, is no longer , and few people buy it.
Nowadays, people in Hebei prefer these 4 wines. Why can these wines stand out from ? Let’s take a look at them one by one.
Yanchao Ming wine
Someone once said: "I taste all the wine in the world and love Yanchao Ming the most." This wine has a long history like Liu Lingzui. Its wine production location has a wine production history of 18 years ago.
It belongs to rich aroma type bran ke wine. It is made from high-quality sorghum as raw material, reinforced ester-producing yeast as a saccharification fermentation agent, and steamed by air-conditioning steamed and mixed, and artificial culture old cellar process.
smells fragrant, the wine is colorless and transparent, sweet in the mouth, and sweet in taste. It has won the National Quality Award for for two consecutive times.
The older generation of Hebei people are used to opening it directly, drinking half of it before eating, and then drinking it, and then filling the remaining wine in one sip after the meal, and not delaying heavy physical work after drinking it. The locals say that it is more affordable than the reorganized Liu Lingzui is good and cheap.
In the past, people drink strong-scented wines on the wine table in Hebei, which were mostly used to match some heavy-tasting dishes and mutton soup.
But in recent years, people have found that sauce wine has a rich flavor and delicate taste. Whether it is drinking alone or having a dinner with friends, it is very tasty . In addition, Hebei has also produced sauce wine before, so it has a high acceptance of sauce wine.
Wooden Taktao Wine
is like a common wooden Taktao Wine on the Hebei wine table in recent years. It is produced in the core area of sauce wine in Maotai Town, Kweichow, and upstream of Chishui River . Here are the important raw materials for brewing red tassel glutinous sorghum .
Only the sorghum grown here grows thick skin, small grains, solid and full, rich in tannins , and the yield is low in , and 6 jin can produce 1 jin of wine.
plus this wine adheres to the authentic Kunsha craft when brewing 2987 and goes through 165 production links. It takes 1 year to go from one grain to wine.
After repeated steaming and cooking, harmful substances in the wine continue to evaporate, and it will need to be stored for at least 5 years after the wine is released.
This not only removes the odors in the wine body, but also produces ester substances containing a variety of special aromas, while reducing the ethanol content in the wine body, which enriches the beneficial substances in the wine, and makes people not uncomfortable after drinking , , , and .
Experts who have drunk this wine say that it has the same root and origin as Moutai from raw materials to craftsmanship, and national wine reviewer , Moutai old director Li Xingfa disciple Feng Xiaoning is also its person in charge.
Under her control, each bottle is mixed with high-quality old wine to ensure the stable quality of the wine can only be launched on the market.
Therefore, when the wine is in the mouth, it is sour, bitter, spicy and salty, and the five flavors are balanced. After careful taste, there is a pleasant burnt fragrance . The layers are clear and soft. The wine liquid is thick and moist as oil . It is round and not spicy. It is like a hot spring falling from the throat into the stomach, making the whole body warm and .
Fenyangwang
In the past, on the Hebei wine table, people who are not good at drinking usually prepared a bottle of Hengshui Laobaigan. However, in recent years, due to the continuous invasion of the market for foreign fragrance wines, people have also turned their attention to other brands, including Fenyangwang .
It is a local famous wine in Shanxi
. It uses local high-quality red sorghum as raw materials, uses barley and peas to make koji. It is steamed in low heat, fermented in a ground tank, and then stored in a pottery jar.
This wine smells pure and pure. First taste sweet and soft , then there is a faint nectar and pea fragrance. The overall comfort is gentle and , and it is not sticky after drinking it. For those who don’t like to drink, drinking this wine will not make you feel irritating and uncomfortable.
Congtai Wine
There is also a famous local wine in Handan, Hebei. It is Congtai Wine, known as the first cellar of the northern strong fragrance . Use local high-quality sorghum as raw materials and use wheat to make koji.
Wine cellars are also very distinctive, warm in winter and cool in summer constant temperature and humidity , the temperature remains at around 15-19°, and the humidity is between 50-80%. Such a storage environment can make the wine more soft and mature, and the wine body is plump.
, and the wine storage container is a pottery jar with excellent breathability of . This container can allow the wine molecules and water molecules to fully fusion , and various fragrance substances can balance and coordinate with each other.
The wine finally obtained is colorless and transparent, smells like , the fragrance of , but does not irritate , the entrance is not astringent , sweet and soft, and the aftertaste is pure grain is sweet and . At its peak, it was also known as "South Moutai, North Congtai".
It’s a pity that the winery lacks momentum and its sales are not as good as before, but there are still a group of Hebei drinkers who love it for and .
It seems that wines that are not necessarily well-known can win the love of the people. Some wines that are not famous, but with the quality of , can be stored on the table for a long time.
