Xinghua Village Fenjiu [Shanxi Lvliang Specialty]

What is Xinghua Village Fenjiu? Authentic Shanxi Lvliang specialty: Xinghua Village Fenjiu

Summary:Do you want to know what Xinghua Village Fenjiu is? This article is a detailed introduction to Xinghua Village Fenjiu, a specialty of Lvliang, Shanxi Province. It was compiled and edited by the editorial team of China Specialty Network after reviewing and collecting relevant information about Xinghua Village Fenjiu. The full text takes about 11 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Xinghua Village Fenjiu and the product characteristics of Xinghua Village Fenjiu? How did the history of Xinghua Village Fenjiu come about? How to distinguish the authenticity of Xinghua Village Fenjiu? Wait

Introduction to Xinghua Village Fenjiu

Xinghua Village Fenjiu, also known as "Old White Fenjiu", is named after its production in Xinghua Village, Fenyang City, Shanxi Province. After drinking Xinghua Village Fenjiu, the aftertaste is long, the alcohol is strong and non irritating, making people feel happy and content. Fenjiu has been renowned for thousands of years and its reputation remains strong, which is inseparable from the purity of the water and the skillful craftsmanship used in its production. A famous wine producing area must have a good spring. Xinghua Village has inexhaustible high-quality spring water, which gives Fenjiu infinite vitality. Both the Horse Racing Divine Spring and the Ancient Well Spring have beautiful folk legends and are known as "Divine Springs" by people

The brewing of Fenjiu uses the "one handle sorghum" from the Jinzhong Plain as raw material, and a saccharification and fermentation agent made from barley and beans. It adopts a unique brewing process of "steaming twice". The wine brewed has a clear and transparent liquid, a fragrant and rich aroma, and a smooth, sweet, mellow, and refreshing taste when tasted. After drinking Xinghua Village Fenjiu, the aftertaste is long, the alcohol is strong and non irritating, making people feel happy and content

It remains to be further verified when the name Fenjiu originated, but as early as over 140 years ago, the name "Fenqing" already existed in this area. Of course, more than 1400 years ago, there was no distilled liquor in China. The "Fenqing" and "Ganniang" recorded in historical data are all yellow liquor. China's Baijiu, including famous Baijiu such as Fenjiu, evolved and developed from yellow liquor. In the Book of Northern Qi, it is recorded that Emperor Wu Cheng of Northern Qi, Gao Zhan, wrote a document from Jinyang to Prince Xiaoyu of Kangshu, Henan: "I drink two cups of Fenqing. I advise you to drink two cups in Ye

After the Ming and Qing dynasties, Baijiu in the north developed rapidly and gradually replaced the production of yellow rice wine. At this time, the Fenjiu in Xinghua Village was already a distilled wine and was famous in the world. Since Fenjiu won the first-class gold medal at the Panama International Exposition in 1916, its reputation has become even more prominent, with a great reputation

How to distinguish the authenticity of Xinghua Village Fenjiu

First, outer packaging observation method - to identify authenticity by observing the characteristics of the product's outer packaging

1. Packaging Container

The bottle type is selected from the authentic Fu Zheng bottle type, made of pure white material, clear, transparent, and glossy. The bottle height is 257 ± 1mm, and the diameter of the bottle body is 76 ± 0.5mm

The characteristics of counterfeit Bofen bottles are: rough production, with many spots and bumps on the bottle body, non white materials, mostly with slight yellow and green colors, shorter bottle body and neck size compared to real bottles, faster shrinkage, uneven thickness around the bottle, and thicker bottom

2. Trademark

The trademark identification material is made of 80g imported copperplate paper with high smoothness, which is printed using raised plate technology and fixed-point fixed plate printing. The color is bright and rich, and the color matching is accurate and error free. The four corners are inward curved, and the body logo has neat cutting edges and uniform edges. The concave and convex contours are clear and full

The pattern of "Gujing Pavilion" and the text and pinyin letters of "Fenjiu" are all printed on raised relief plates with a clear tactile feel. The text on the gold medals on both sides of the registered trademark is "First Class Medal of the 1915 Marathon" and "1963 National Liquor Evaluation Gold Award", and the upper half of the two gold plates is in a semi-circular shape. The entire set of trademark printing is precise and clear

The neck label contains the name of the wine and the aroma, alcohol content, net content, ingredient list, standard code, square symbol, address, and other content specified by the national labeling standards

Characteristics of counterfeit trademark logos: The paper of the trademark logo may be thick or thin, and there may be differences in size and specifications. Rough printing, often not using relief printing, poor or no relief printing feel, inaccurate overprinting, and often color misalignment. The pattern is unclear, the color is not correct, it is dark, and the text on the two gold medals on the body logo is thick, with burrs around all the text

The body emblem has a wide gold border around it, and the cutting width varies. In some cases, all the gold borders around it are cut off, while the opposite side is widened. The most prominent feature is the uneven inward cutting of the edges, with the outer arc and inner arc of the gold edge not being concentric circles, with larger outer edges and smaller inner edges, and some purely straight cutting. Golden edges often have the phenomenon of falling off, appearing red or light red after falling off (genuine trademark gold edges become light yellow or white after long-term wear)

3. Bottle caps

The bottle cap material is made of imported aluminum skin, which has good elasticity and eight connection points at the opening, making it easy to open. The printed pattern on the lid is clear, and the bottle cap has an inner pad made of pure white, elastic, tough, and non breakable polyethylene material. It is embedded in the lid and is not easy to pick up. It does not change color after soaking in wine

Characteristics of counterfeit bottle caps: The bottle cap material is mostly tinplate or inferior aluminum skin, the seal is not tight, it is not easy to open, and there is often leakage of alcohol. The printing on the cover is poor, blurry, with uneven color and easy fading. The inner pad is made of other materials, which have poor toughness, are easy to fall off or can be removed by hand, and change color when soaked in alcohol<63

Currently, counterfeit Fenjiu on the market has the following characteristics from the appearance and internal quality of the liquor: the color of the liquor is not correct, it is yellow or cloudy, and some have suspended solids and sediment. The quality and aroma of the wine are not good, the body of the wine is not harmonious, it is not pleasant, not clean, sometimes thick, sometimes sauce, sometimes mixed with ethyl acetate flavoring agent and excessive lactic acid, or other aroma and odor

Thirdly, theoretical analysis method

When it is difficult to determine the authenticity of Fenjiu based on its appearance, the physical and chemical analysis method can be used in accordance with GB10781.2-89 (Premium) standard to compare the physical and chemical indicators of fake and real liquor to determine their authenticity. The physical and chemical indicators include alcohol content, total acidity, total esters, and ethyl acetate. In case of special circumstances, hygiene indicators (methanol, fusel oil, cyanide, lead, manganese, and food additives) can be analyzed, and conclusions can be drawn by comparing the peak shapes of the chromatogram to see if there are trace amounts of special components (combined with standard samples)

The above three identification methods are not only interrelated entities, but also independently capable of accurate identification. When it is difficult to accurately determine with one method, two other methods can be used to draw accurate conclusions