How to choose a quality wine for a festive table: Wine without falsity

A glass of wine with an evening fleece and twinkling of thin glass is the best decoration of a festive dinner. But in order to wake up the next morning with a pleasant aftertaste of the holiday, and not a headache, you need to pay attention to the choice of a drink. Let's figure out what to look for when buying a wine.

When the eyes scatter from the abundance of wines: What is the choice to build?

The main rule of the winemaker is to cherish the reputation under any conditions, so we immediately pass by the shelves on which the wine stands:

• in cardboard boxes is a water-restored powder;
• in ceramics - when corking it was strongly heated;
• too cheap - a genuine product is simply not profitable to sell at such prices;
• on the sale - it can come in here from a defective party.

As for the price, the more expensive the wine, the more profit from its forgery, so it makes sense to stay on the middle price segment. Next, determine the degree of dryness of the drink.

• sweet wines do not need additional preservatives, because this role is taken by sugar, but it also makes the drink too strong and caloric;
• semi-sweet often bring to the desired taste with sugar and citric acid;
• semi-dry to prevent sourness can be preserved with sulfur dioxide (E220);
• dry are the result of fermentation of grape juice without any impurities - this is the most natural product.

When choosing between white and red, it is recommended to stop at the first: it is more difficult to spoil, and the famous resveratrol, the protector of the vessels from cholesterol plaques, in both types of wine is approximately equal.

What a pretty bottle: What will confirm the authenticity of the wine?

Connoisseurs turn the bottle, study it from all sides, as if tourists map the terrain. Let's do this, and we'll look at the label in detail. Like the excise stamp, it must be glued exactly, without bubbles, to have clear lines and inscriptions. The authenticity and quality of wine is indicated by the labels on which the manufacturer indicated:

• its name - he also has reason to be proud of his own products;
• year of harvest;
• a specific grape variety - a statement about the alleged "best grades" without indicating their names indicates that a mixture of wine materials is splashing in the bottle;
• the place where the vineyard is located.

If all this information is present on the label, then you have the right real wine, no matter how much it costs - 300 rubles. or more expensive. The manufacturer did it according to the rules of winemaking. If any item is not listed, it is likely that you are holding a bottle with a so-called wine drink - this is not real wine.

The easiest way to find out is before you a real wine or wine drink: look for the "Composition" section on the label. Usually it is placed at the bottom of the label. Have not found - excellent, before you this wine. If you see the composition - before you a wine drink.

Note that grapes are a sun-loving plant. Ideal conditions for its growth and development are provided by such countries as Italy, Spain, France, Chile, Argentina, Australia, South Africa, so the wines from these regions are among the best. Now turn the bottle upside down and look at the precipitate. A small amount of suspension is completely permissible, especially in red wine, but frank "silt" will give a fake.

We advise you to download a special application for a smartphone that will scan the label before buying and give out information and customer reviews about wine. And if the application does not find the wine, then the chosen bottle is most likely a counterfeit.

In the video, sommelier Arthur Sargsyan talks about the subtleties of reading labels of real French wines.

Wine is open: it's not too late to make sure of its quality

You can sow wine in falsity, even when the corkscrew only enters the cork. The self-respecting manufacturer uses a decent material, so if the cork has fallen into a bottle or crumbled, the drink is likely of the same quality. But plastic closures in recent years, few people are confused: the winemakers now have a fashion for the preservation of cork oaks, so the properties of the product plastic does not say anything.
Let's look at the underside of the cork: clear darkening indicates the wrong storage of wine. But small crystals of tartaric acid, on the contrary, indicate the naturalness of the drink. A good indication is the presence on the traffic jam of a vintage year, the coat of arms or the name of the company.
Let's pour a little wine into the glass and spin it a little so that the drink starts to flow down the walls. Thick, slowly descending "wine legs" say either about the strength of the wine, or about the presence in it of glycerin, which is added for sweetening. In general, the absence of "legs" indicates a powder product.
Well, and of course, try: no foreign smells and flavors, vinegar, excess acid and frank caramel in quality wine should not be.