Why don't foreign red wines have a shelf life?

People in China have a habit when they buy things, that is, look at the shelf life. No matter what food is, it has a shelf life, and wine is no exception. Although people say that wine is more fragrant as it is put, it also has a shelf life. After five years, the taste of ordinary-flavor liquor will fade and its fragrance will weaken. Low-alcohol liquor, especially liquor with a temperature below 32 degrees, is likely to cause performance changes the longer it is placed. After a long time, it will lose its inherent characteristics. If it is left for a long time, the alcohol content will decrease and the taste of the wine will become weak.

when we buy wine, we can obviously see that there is a 1-year shelf life. If we buy wine abroad and ask the salesperson about the shelf life, we will definitely laugh at you, because in foreign countries, there is no shelf life for wine, only a tasting period! Only very good wines have the ability to age. For example, the top wines in France and Italy have the aging ability for decades or even hundreds of years. Many wines from Bordeaux's top wineries can still be drunk even if they have been preserved for more than a century.

foreigners don't look at the shelf life when drinking wine. First, they look at the price of wine. Cheap wine has almost no storage value, so just buy it and drink it. Second, look at the origin of the wine. In some new countries, such as the United States, South Africa, China and other countries, there is no need to store the wine for a long time, so you can just drink it directly, because it has not changed for a long time, while in the old world countries, such as France, Italy, Spain and Germany, the wine will become more and more fragrant, and it is usually stored for more than 1 years before it can give full play to their best taste. Lafite is the best example, it has been more than 3 years since now.

Third, it depends on the grade. There are many wineries in every country, and the grade of each winery is different, so is the wine produced. The wine brewed by the winery with higher grade is necessary to be stored, but the winery with lower grade cannot be kept for too long!

In China, because the relevant laws stipulated that the shelf life must be indicated on the label before, many imported wines will be marked with a shelf life of 1 years in order to cater to the characteristics of China and consider the buying habits of Chinese consumers. However, there are many imported wines that have no shelf life, which shows that they are good wines and worth storing!