Shaoxing wine tasting the main color, wen xiang, distinguishing taste, four procedures.
color
Of shaoxing wine color identification, main is to use our eyes to visual organ, the appearance of the wine, including color, transparency, clarify the situation and have the precipitation as a comprehensive judgement.
Wen xiang
Sweet shaohsing wine mainly come from in the fermentation process of fermented grains of sweet bouquet (also known as fragrance), as the saccharifying leaven and ingredients of malt brought about by the unique liquor (mainly amino acids), and alcohol after long-term storage of coke (sugar) ester is sweet, sweet (or called wine aroma) integrated to form a composite flavor.Good shaoxing yellow rice wine, there is a strong and beautiful unique aroma.Form the main component of yellow rice wine aroma with aldehydes, ketones, amino acids, esters and higher alcohols, such as hundreds of kinds of material.
Distinguishing taste
Shaoxing yellow rice wine flavor, we often speak of six kinds, namely, sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, fresh and dry the six flavors, as the ingredients contained in shaoxing yellow rice wine is very rich, especially the wine contains 20 kinds of amino acid, taste is more complicated, such as leucine, methionine is bitter, tyrosine show astringency, glycine and alanine sweet, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, sodium glutamic acid, aspartic acid sodium freshness.
Tasting shaoxing wine, we must carefully distinguish, and pay attention to whether balance and coordination between all kinds of taste.A real good wine, not only its bouquet is fragrant comfortable, fascinating, it tastes more should have alcohol and full, rich, fresh, soft and comfortable feeling.Especially sugar is sweet, mellow wine, sour tasty, song cosin needs harmonious collocation, lingering finish.If some kind of taste is outstanding, will be seen in the sweet, sour or bitter hot feeling, such as, in turn, affects the liquor.
Stop motion
Shaoxing wine style is of shaoxing rice wine color, aroma and taste of the feeling and comprehensive evaluation, also known as typicality.This is the comprehensive reflection to each chemical liquor color, aroma, taste the embodiment of three aspects.As a traditional wine history, shaohsing wine brewing techniques will be, relatively stable chemical composition, especially has already formed the fragrant, sweet, elegant, soft, pleasant embellish, such a balanced and harmonious, mellow attractive to drink, can be called nectar of liquor body, and typicality.
The sensory evaluation, because of yellow rice wine material must reflect three aspects through color, aroma, taste, so must be through the concept of colour, smell, taste wine, spicy last three aspects comprehensive impression, by abstracting the judgment of the structure.The current of the rice wine tasting general use 100 aatcc evaluation rules.