Top Tasting Game

Chapter 17 Really Never Learned Wine Tasting

Back at school, Jiang Feng contacted Yan Jia, who was waiting for him at a small bar in Jiangzhong University Food Street.

This small bar is the only bar on the food street. Because it is for students, it is not considered high-end. It mainly buys 100 yuan a dozen of beer.

Yan Jia is a member of the student association "Wine Lovers Club", so she is familiar with the boss here, and the seats here are free to use.

When Jiang Feng walked in, Yan Jia was already waiting for him in a corner, with seven or eight bottles of red wine on the table.

Jiang Feng thought to himself, these seven or eight bottles of red wine, if two people drink them, they must be turned over, right?After all, the drinking capacity given to him by the system is only 2 points. If he drank two bottles of red wine to death, he couldn't stand any more.

Yan Jia asked Jiang Feng to sit down and asked, "Do you know all these wines?"

"I don't know most of them." Jiang Feng glanced at the wines, and was suddenly overjoyed. Finally, he found a familiar bottle, which was the 18.9 yuan bottle of Great Wall snake dragon ball dry red. "I know this bottle of Great Wall."

Yan Jia smiled and said, "This wine is now the best-selling wine in the school supermarket. Everyone uses this wine to perform the 'key to open wine'."

This wine should be the cheapest wine that can be found in the world. If it is cheaper, even if the cork is gone, it is impossible to perform the "key to open wine method". Therefore, the popularity of this wine is understandable. .

The game system sent another reminder, "Fan +1", "Fan +1".It seems that at this time, some classmates are using his "key to open wine method" and helping him gain fans.

Jiang Feng said with a smile: "This wine is the most suitable for practicing bottle opening."

"I would not have bought this wine today," Yan Jia explained, "because there is no way to import it. However, if there is no comparison, I am afraid there is no way to know which wines are good and which are not.

Among the wines I chose today, there are three old world imported wines, three new world imported wines, and two domestic wines. "

Some new terms were involved here, so Jiang Feng asked: "What is the old world? What is the new world? Some people don't understand."

"Oh, I forgot to explain to you." Yan Jia divided the 8 bottles of wine on the table into three teams, and then continued to explain:
"We say that the wine world is mainly divided into the old world and the new world. The old world is mainly those old wine producing countries, mainly European countries, the most famous ones are France, Italy, Germany, and Spain with a long history Portugal and Portugal are both old world producing areas.

The New World refers to those wine-producing countries that have risen in the past two to three centuries, such as the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, and Argentina.

The difference is that Old World wine has a long history, strict production limits, emphasis on labor, strict hierarchical system, strict regulations, focusing on vintage and production area, and large gap in grades; New World wine has a short history, loose regulations, mainly mechanization, hierarchical system, and regulations It is relatively simple, mainly industrialized production, and the quality gap is small.

There is also a noticeable difference in taste.But I won’t talk about it first, otherwise it’s easy to give you a preconceived idea. Let’s experience it when you taste it for yourself later. "

Jiang Feng felt that Yan Jia was really a good teacher. When she introduced her, she was concise and well-organized, much clearer than many university teachers. Jiang Feng understood it as soon as she heard it.

"Miss Jia, shall we start tasting?"

Yan Jia smiled and said: "You are quite impatient, I haven't finished talking yet.

However, there are several bottles of wine today, let you taste all of them first to get a general perceptual understanding, and then tell you in detail, it may be more emotional. "

These bottles of wine had already been opened by Yan Jia, so there was no need for Jiang Feng to use the "key to open wine method".In fact, Jiang Feng wasn't interested either.

Now the students in the whole school are using keys to open wine. Jiang Feng will not open it again. A truly outstanding person will not repeat himself.

Actually, besides the "key opening method", Jiang Feng has already researched a new method of opening wine, but this is not the time, and Jiang Feng doesn't mind performing a new method of opening wine when necessary.He is confident that the new corkage method will definitely trigger another corkage craze.

However, his main task today was to learn how to taste wine, so he calmed down and looked at Yan Jia who was opposite him seriously.

Yan Jia didn't pay attention at first, but when she noticed that Jiang Feng was watching her pour the wine, she was shocked.

Under the soft and even dim lighting of the bar, Jiang Feng's already handsome face was even more hazy at this moment.

She had never seen that a boy could be so handsome, it simply gave her an illusion that with him, the world would be a fairyland; without him, this day would be a pile of poop.

"Sister Jia, how much should I pour this wine?" Jiang Feng reminded.

Yan Jia had already filled the glass in front of Jiang Feng, and blood-red wine flowed from the glass onto the table.

But she didn't realize it because she looked at Jiang Feng.

Yan Jia saw it, and hurriedly put the wine bottle back upright.

She is also clever, she didn't admit that she was distracted by him and poured too much wine, but said with a light smile: "Wine tasting is the first thing to look at. I let the wine flow down from the glass, and you can directly see the color of the wine. Color."

"In order to see the color of the wine, do you have to fill up the wine and let it overflow?" Jiang Feng had never heard of it before, so he asked, "Even if it doesn't flow out, you can still see it in the wine glass."

In normal wine tasting, of course, tilt the glass at 45 degrees to observe its hue.However, Yan Jia was unwilling to admit it, and found another reason: "It's more intuitive to flow out."

"Oh." Jiang Feng didn't ask any more questions.

Now, his knowledge of wine is still very shallow, so he somewhat blindly believes that what Yan Jia said should be reasonable.

Seeing that Jiang Feng didn't ask any more questions, Yan Jia breathed a sigh of relief and rushed to change the subject: "Now, let's taste this wine. This wine is a red wine from the Medoc region of France, an old wine country, and the price is moderate. A bottle costs about 300 yuan. Come and have a taste.”

There was a full glass in front of Jiang Feng, he picked it up and drank half of it in one gulp.

"Wait." It was too late for Yan Jia to stop her, so she had no choice but to say: "If you drink it, forget it. But from now on, you can't drink like this. Drinking and tasting are two different concepts. We are tasting wine now. It has to go through the three stages of observing the color, smelling the fragrance, and tasting the taste."

These three stages were also mentioned by Chen Pinsen when he invited them to drink Beyond 2008.But at that time, Jiang Feng's task was to "drink a bottle of top domestic wine", so he didn't listen well at all, so he didn't grasp it now.

Jiang Feng said modestly: "Sister Jia, I will listen to you."

Yan Jia said: "Now, let's take the first step, which is to observe the color."

She tilted her wine glass at 45 degrees, and watched the colors in it by the light, and Jiang Feng followed suit.

Only then did Jiang Feng realize that there was a light golden halo around the edge of the wine, which was very beautiful.

Yan Jia went on to say: "Next, let's smell the fragrance. For beginners, it is more difficult to smell which fragrance there is. You just need to feel it in general."

For beginners, the concept of wine is generally good or bad, good or bad, and it is difficult for them to tell the truth, let alone the specific fragrance.

Therefore, Yan Jia doesn't have high requirements for Jiang Feng, as long as he has a preliminary impression.

Jiang Feng put his nose into the cup, sniffed it lightly, and blurted out, "Does it smell like blackberries and black currants?"

Yan Jia was taken aback, surprised that Jiang Feng could accurately name the two aromas of this wine all at once.

This red wine from the Medoc region is made from Cabernet Sauvignon as the main grape variety.The main aromas of Cabernet Sauvignon are raspberry, plum, black currant and blackberry.

Jiang Feng had no experience in wine tasting before, so how could he name two aromas at once?Is it a blind cat meeting a dead mouse?
So Yan Jia poured him another half a glass of village-level red wine from Burgundy, France, 100% Pinot Noir.

Jiang Feng tasted it, and said, "There are strawberries here, and it seems to taste like cherries."

Yan Jia was even more surprised. The aromas of Pinot Noir are mainly cranberries, cherries, strawberries, and raspberries. Although Jiang Feng didn't say everything, the two aromas he pointed out are 100% correct.

"Jiang Feng, what are you hiding from me? Have you really never learned how to taste wine?"

Yan Jia became suspicious.

(End of this chapter)