Check the quality of the wine can be at home What you need to know in order not to become a victim of substandard drinks According to Robert Parker, one of the world's most influential wine critics and developer of a 100-point quality assessment system, wines rated from 50 to 59 points are considered unacceptable. This is when you consider that 50 points are given initially to any fault. Only it is unlikely that counterfeit drinks even reach this lower limit.

Types of fake wine Powder: evaporated to a dry residue grape must, diluted with water and alcohol with the addition of flavors.

Artificial: surprisingly believable combination of water, yeast, sugar, citric acid, alcohol, flavorings and preservatives, which has nothing to do with grapes.

Gallized: low-quality wort with the addition of water and sugar to the required density.

Petitized: wine drink based on pulp (pressed grapes).

Scheled: low-quality wine with the addition of glycerin to improve taste.

Shaptalized: sour wort, "softened" with alkaline additives.

With preservatives: wine made with "accelerated" technology, with salicylic acid in its composition to prevent souring.

Blend: poor quality blend and good wine to give the drink a more palatable smell and taste.

Tinted: a mixture of wines with the addition of dyes (not always natural) to achieve the desired color.

Substitution: low-quality wine with substitution of labels, plugs, excises.

Camouflage: bottling low-quality wine in a part of the famous brand.

What you need to pay attention to:.

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Wines in boxes - low-quality. Normal wine in this form is never stored.

The sugar content in wine should be as follows: in dry wines - up to 4 g / l; in semi-dry - up to 18 g / l; in semi-sweet - up to 45 g / l, in sweet - not less than 45 g / l. If the sugar is more and the label does not say that the wine is fortified, then it was added artificially.

If the composition of wine contains salicylic acid, then the wine is made with a violation of technology. But the frightening ingredient E220 (sulfur dioxide) will be present in any wine, as it is a natural by-product of fermentation.

Date of manufacture must be stamped separately from the main information on the label. All fonts must be clear, without typos, blurring, rejection printing. The inscription on the label must correspond to the inscription on the cork.

Vintage (and therefore, infused in oak barrels), wine does not occur as a powder. As well as artificial dry. All because it is cheaper and easier to make a sweet concentrate, roughly similar to the taste of wine.

If you are a connoisseur of a certain wine brand, then you should be alerted by the change of the original bottle (asymmetric, branded) to the usual.

How to check the wine at home:.

When adding a pinch of ordinary baking soda, natural wine will change its color due to the reaction with grape starch. Synthetic remains the same.

When you add a few drops of glycerin to natural wine, it drops to the bottom and does not change its color. If glycerin changes color to yellow or red, then you have a powdered wine.

When the bottle is shaken in a good drink, the foam will gather in the center and quickly fall off. In a low-quality product, the foam will gather at the edges and settle slowly.

Drip wine on an ordinary piece of chalk. If the stain after drying has brightened up - natural wine. If the stain has changed color - it contains dyes.

Your "chemical" experiments will be an unforgettable attraction for guests who brought wine.

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