Maotai is a famous liquor in China, which enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad. Maotai distillery was founded in 1704 in Maotai Town, renbei County, Guizhou Province. Maotai liquor plays an important role in our country, so how to identify the real and fake Maotai liquor? How does Maotai taste?
1. Manufacturer identification
Maotai distillery has not associated with any other manufacturers, nor shared its trademark license with any other manufacturers, nor set up one, two and branch factories. All the "Maotai liquor" produced by the affiliated factory, the first factory, the second factory and the branch factory can definitely be fake.
2. Identification of registered trademarks
The whole bottle of Maotai liquor is pasted with the registered trademark of "Guizhou Maotai liquor". It is printed with imported 100g steel plate paper. The specification of the brand paper of 500ml capacity bottle is 90mm & times; 125mm. There are three parts in the design of domestic liquor trademark: the middle is a 60mm wide white diagonal band from the top right to the bottom left, with two black fine lines and four black thick lines on the top and bottom respectively, sandwiching the five characters of "Guizhou Maotai liquor" in the middle. At the junction of the diagonal band and the upper left corner, there are 13 mm wide gold bars with four black characters of "famous at home and abroad". In the upper left corner is a red color block, with a 35mm diameter white circle with a golden edge. Inside the circle are the top-down circular wheat ears, golden gears and Red Pentagram stars. There is a thin gold line at the junction of the diagonal band and the lower right corner. On the red color block in the lower right corner, there are eight white characters' produced by China Moutai distillery '. Under the white characters, there are' 53% vol, 500ml 'black characters indicating the alcohol content and capacity. The specification stated on the back of the bottle is 65mm & times; 85mm with red rims, with a white edge of 10 mm wide around the rims, and the date of manufacture is blue Arabic numerals. The logo is beautifully printed with accurate color and even cutting edge.
The fake 'Maotai' logo and back stickers are printed on ordinary paper, with the trademark specification of 100mm & times; 140mm and back stickers specification of 133mm & times; 85mm. The colors of various patterns are disordered, the layers are not clear, the colors are light, and the specifications are inconsistent. The font used is also different from the real trademark. The date of delivery is in red, and there are other colors.
3. Identification of packaging materials
Maotai liquor bottle is a milky white glass bottle with a large red thread twisted anti-theft aluminum cap. There are five white characters of "Guizhou Maotai liquor" on the top, and there is no inner plug at the bottle mouth. The whole bottle of wine is wrapped with a piece of high-quality square leather paper, which is packed in a color box: the outer packing color box is made of imported white paper and fine corrugated. The font and color on the box are consistent with those on the trademark and back.
The fake "Maotai" is sealed with different shades of red rubber caps. There are transparent ones without words, and there are also fake ones with "Maotai". The bottle caps are white ones and red ones. The lids also have different wall patterns, including yellow twisted aluminum lids, and plastic lids with twisted Yellow Aluminum lids. There are several kinds of internal plugs, such as screw type, belt waistline, flat top, etc. The outer packing box is made of substandard leather paper or other materials.
4. Sensory characteristics identification
Maotai liquor is made of wheat, fermented eight times and stored for two or three years before leaving the factory. Its unique sensory indicators are colorless and transparent liquor, mellow and sweet when drinking, no suspended matter and precipitation, outstanding liquor flavor, elegant and delicate, mellow liquor body, long aftertaste, long-lasting fragrance in empty cup, lasting. The fake "Maotai" is mostly made up of Gaoliang liquor, Baigan liquor and compounded liquor. It is difficult to have the characteristics of color, fragrance and taste of Maotai liquor.
What does Maotai taste like?
One of the characteristics of the aged Maotai liquor is that the liquor turns yellow. When you open the liquor and pour it into a white vessel, you can see that the liquor turns yellow slightly.
Why is that?
Because Maotai liquor belongs to Maotai flavor liquor, which contains a unique substance called the Dione, which will cause the color of the liquor to turn yellow.
Maotai, as a national liquor, has a production cycle of up to one year. It has to go through nine distillations, eight fermentations and seven distillations. After one year's storage in batches, it is then mixed into liquor. After that, it needs to be stored for one year before it can be packaged and delivered. The whole process takes five years.
But five years later, every year of storage, its quality and flavor will rise to a higher level, and the taste will also have a more delicate change. With the passage of years, this delicate and moving taste will become more and more moving.
Maotai liquor is a combination of Maotai sauce, cellar bottom and mellow sweet. Its flavor is fragrant but not brilliant, low but not light, and empty cup is more fragrant than real cup.
It's a little sour in the mouth, but it will turn sweet when it's back sweet. It's recommended to sober up when drinking. It's better to leave it for 15 minutes to half an hour after opening the bottle. In this process, you don't need to shake it, just need to be patient and still.