Fake wine is divided into two categories.
The first category is made by blending wine with three essences and one water.
It is this wine that has no grape juice at all. It is made of essence, alcohol and pigment. This fake wine is the worst because it tastes terrible and has no nutritional value. When you drink it, it is no different from drinking alcohol mixed with water. The harm to human body depends entirely on what alcohol is used in small workshops.
Identification method 1
1. Just use half a spoonful of household edible alkali and put a little water to open it;
2. Prepare an ordinary napkin;
3. Drop a few drops of red wine on the napkin, and the wine will spread evenly without settling in the middle;
4. Drop the edible alkali mixed with water on the red wine;
At this time, something magical happened. If red wine turns dark blue, it is really red wine. If there is no response, it is false.
Because red grapes are colored natural anthocyanins, they are purple-red under acidic conditions and blue-green under alkaline conditions, which are also the color characteristics of many natural pigments. If the pigments are mixed, the color will not change.
Identification method 2, suitable for outdoor occasions.
Put a white napkin on the table and drop a few drops of red wine. It will spread evenly. This is the real wine. That's because fake red wine pigment particles are large, which will precipitate in the middle of paper towels, and only water marks will spread outward.
Fake wine on the market is basically pigment blending, so the accuracy of these two methods is almost 99.9%. Then why not 100%? That is, there is another possibility that if fake red wine uses grape skin pigment or other pigments that change color due to different pH values, it will not be detected, but this method is not low in cost and troublesome.
So at least we can know that if our red wine is not decolorized with edible alkali, it must be fake, there is no doubt about it.
The second category is real wine with fake trademarks.
This wine is fake, just like fake Lu. It is also a real bag that can be carried, and the shape is similar, but it is still fake.
This kind of wine can be drunk, and you can drink it boldly. The more highly imitated the wine, the more you can drink it. Just like you can't break your shoulder with a fake LV.
Let me give you an example here. There is a wine called Lafite Legend, which is the entry-level product of Lafite Group. In earlier years, the domestic retail price was 155/ bottle, but now I don't know the market. It is the following wine.
This kind of wine with the name of Lafite is actually very common, just like a low-end product of Wuliangye Winery. It sells well and is very popular with people who only recognize brands. So fakes are rampant.
However, this fake Lafite wine is often better than the real wine. Why?
Legend of Lafite is a Bordeaux product, because the output is large and the quality is not very high. It has the common faults of low-end bordeaux wine: light and green in taste. Specifically, the fruit flavor is not rich enough, and there are some immature fruits such as green peppers. The fake Lafite legend, although it uses a lot of original wine, is likely to be the original wine of southern France or even Spain, where low-end wine is rich, because the climate is much hotter than Bordeaux, and the grapes are easy to ripen. Even if the output is large, at least it can achieve good fruit flavor. And cheap.
Official retail price of Lafite Legend 155 yuan, wholesale price 1 16 yuan. Lafite Legend 80-90 yuan or so, the price of fake goods is less than half of that of parallel imports. The wholesale price of table wine in Spain or southern France, which is not much different from the quality of fake wine, is around 30 yuan, and it is likely that the cost of fake wine bottled in China will be lower, so counterfeiters have enough profits.
How to distinguish the original bottle of imported wine
Wine label
Generally speaking, if it is an original bottle of imported wine, you can know its information from the wine label. According to the customs regulations, imported wine needs to be labeled with the original label of the importing country's words on the front and the official Chinese back label on the back.
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The capacity of imported French wine on the wine label is usually 75clE, not 750ml commonly used in China.
The date of the original imported wine bottle is also different from that in China. For example, the date marking method of French wine is L7296a06 1 1:58+0: 58, where L7 stands for 2007, 296 stands for the 296th day of French New Year filling, and A06 stands for the production line number.11:58 is accurate.
bar code
The back of the original bottle of imported wine will be marked with an international bar code of 13, in which the number of 1-3 is the country code; 4-8 digits are the manufacturer code; The number 9- 12 is the manufacturer's internal commodity code; 13 is the check code.
The first number of the barcode represents different countries, such as 0 is the United States, 30-37 is French, 6 is China, 7 is Chile, 8 is Spanish and 9 is Australian.
Wine seal
Generally, the wine seal with the brand logo printed on the wine stopper of the original bottle can be rotated. Because the sealing performance of the wine stopper is good, the wine seal is only a symbol of the brand logo, so it can be rotated without sealing. However, some fake or imitation wines in China are worried about the poor sealing performance of wine plugs, so they also seal the wine together, leaving a flaw instead.
Connecting plug
Generally speaking, the words on the cork will be consistent with the contents on the wine label, such as the name of the winery and the production batch number. However, the details of domestic bottled wine are difficult to make and consumers need to distinguish carefully.
Finally, I will give you some suggestions on how to avoid buying fake wine as much as possible.
1, try not to go to the supermarket to buy wine.
Nowadays, many people buy wine with the expectation of health care, and the wine in the supermarket itself is very cheap, not to mention whether it has a maintenance function.
Try to find a stable channel to buy wine.
Everything in Taobao Tmall may be fake wine every time. Choose a wine merchant to confirm the reliability of their supply. It is a good way to choose the wine you want from the wine he provides.