What's the difference between yellow wine and red wine?

Yellow rice wine: Yellow rice wine is brewed with grain as raw material and wheat koji or Xiaoqu as saccharifying starter. Historically, the raw material for producing yellow rice wine was millet or millet (millet: commonly known as millet scientific name: Setaria italica, which was called "millet" in China in ancient times. Millet: Also known as yellow rice, it is the fruit of millet without shell, slightly larger than millet and slightly yellow in color. )

Red wine: In terms of grape types, the grapes used to brew red wine include Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.

2. Different approaches.

Yellow rice wine: From the Han Dynasty in 200 BC to the Northern Song Dynasty in 1000 A.D., which lasted 1200 years, it was the mature period of China traditional yellow rice wine.

The main technological process of traditional brewing yellow wine in China is as follows:

Soaking rice, steaming rice, drying rice, in-tank fermentation, harrowing, in-tank fermentation, frying wine, and packaging.

Red wine: remove the stem, in order to avoid the bitter taste in the wine, remove the fruit stem. Crushing, rubbing, and gently crushing are called crushing. Fermentation: Add yeast to the broken grapes (together with skins and seeds). Because the color of red wine comes from the peel, and astringency is the taste released by seeds. Squeezing juice means squeezing fermented wine out with a juicer.

Fermentation: the pressed wine is separated from the peel and seeds, and then only the wine is fermented. This stage is the key to determine the taste of wine, and fully fermented wine is a wine with different tastes. Slag removal, the residue dissolved after fermentation will automatically precipitate and can be removed smoothly. This process is called deslagging.

Mature, and then put it in a bucket to make it fully mature. The maturity is about two years (but some people are not mature for two years). Bottling, curing and bottling.

3. Different origins

Yellow rice wine: China is the first country in the world to make wine with koji medicine. The discovery, artificial production and application of Quyao can probably be traced back to the Xia Dynasty in 2000 BC to the Qin Dynasty in 200 BC, that is, 1800.

Red wine: one of the ways to divide the origin of red wine, which can be divided into "old world red wine" and "new world red wine". Old world red wine generally refers to the red wine produced in Europe (especially in France and Italy), which is slightly more expensive in the international market. "New World Red Wine" refers to red wine produced in Australia, Chile and other countries.

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