Recently, the winners of the 22nd Brussels International Spirits Competition (Spirits Selection by CMB) were announced. Changyu Vermouth red spiced wine won the gold award, which is after this wine won the gold award in the 2021 International Wine Challenge (IWC) , This year has won another gold award in international authoritative competitions.

　　It is understood that the 22nd Brussels International Spirits Competition has a total of more than 1,800 wines from 47 countries and regions. The types include brandy, whiskey, vodka, white wine, rum, tequila, gin, Flavored wines, liqueurs, ouzo, etc. The wine appraisal will be held in Brussels from October 21st to 24th. The judges come from 23 countries.

Changyu Vermouth won the gold medal at the Brussels International Spirits Competition

　　Changyu Vermouth is a flavored wine made from wine based wine and aging with aromatic plants. Aromatic plant raw materials include saffron, nutmeg, cinnamon, wolfberry, cloves, angelica, wormwood, etc.

As early as the 1915 Panama Pacific Universal Exposition (San Francisco World Expo), Changyu's Vermouth exhibited together with red rose red wine, Riesling white wine and Coja brandy won the gold medal.

In 1937, the Trademark Office of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of China approved Changyu Company to register the "Vemax" trademark with the registration number No. 26411.

In the first national wine appraisal held in 1952, Changyu's Vermouth, Gold Medal Brandy, and Red Rose Red Wine were also selected as the "Eight National Wines", and were included in the second (1963) and third (1979) and the 4th (1983) National Wine Tasting Conference continued to be listed as "National Famous Wines". In 1985, it became one of the 20 famous wines listed as "Planned Management Commodities" by the Ministry of Commerce.

Mr. Zhu Mei, a brewing expert who used to be winemaker and deputy manager of Changyu Company and later a senior engineer of the Ministry of Light Industry, published in the sixth issue of “Wine Making” in 1991, “Chinese Fruit Wine Talk”, wrote: “The vermouth produced by Yantai Changyu Company in my country Due to the special raw materials and superb manufacturing technology, it has characteristics in terms of color, aroma and taste. This wine contains many pharmaceutical ingredients, so it can treat the human body, nourish, help digestion, and refresh the human body. Therefore, Chinese vermouths are popular in China. Welcomed by foreign consumers, it is marketed in Southeast Asia and European countries, and it is called "Beauty Wine" and "Fitness Wine"."

　　According to reports, Changyu Company established the Vermouth Innovation Team in 2020, and successively launched five series of new Vermouth products: "aged", "national style", "fashionable", "good night bottle" and "expression bottle", which can satisfy different sales. Channels, different drinking scenes, and the needs of different consumer groups.

Among them, the "taste" and "Vermouth" on the label of the Vermouth red flavored wine belonging to the aging series are taken from the inscription of the famous calligrapher and painter Xia Yiqiao when he visited Changyu Company in 1983: "This inscription cleverly expresses the charm of vermouth through the random combination of the three words "taste", "beauty" and "thinking".

(Chenzhuang)