Why did Guotai wine go to Henan to sacrifice wheat for three consecutive years?

People often say "spring and autumn", in fact, summer is also the harvest season, especially wheat, one of the staple foods related to the diet of hundreds of millions of people. The winter wheat harvested in autumn and summer has been harvested in mid-summer after a winter of waiting, and the golden wheat waves are harvested against the bright June sun.

In the north, the wheat harvest in May and June is an agricultural event, and in recent years, it has added another meaning under the influence of several leading liquor brands "sacrificial wheat". For example, Guotai wine has been three consecutive years, every June 6, across thousands of miles from Maotai Town, Kweichow all the way to Henan, an important wheat production area, to meet Yuwheat, and hold a sincere wheat ceremony, this year is no exception.

Why is it called "sacrificial wheat"? It is an honorific title. In ancient times, in order to bless the sake of brewing, before brewing, it was necessary to worship the god of wine, for example, in Mr. Mo Yan's "Red Sorghum", this tradition is mentioned graphically. The liquor industry has always had a tradition of respecting heaven and earth and advocating nature, for example, if there is sacrificial water, there is naturally sacrificial wheat.

Today, winemaking is no longer a completely mysterious skill, worship has actually become a form of gratitude, such as the three-year wheat festival in Guotai, all of which are expressing gratitude to Henan, the hot land, Henan wheat farmers, and Henan consumers. Conversely, it can also be seen how important wheat and wheat farmers are to the winemaking industry.

Guotai wine products are in Henan wheat base

Every grain of wheat is the foundation of fine wine

Wheat, which is the most important raw material for koji making, is not one of them. Koji, on the other hand, is one of the most important ingredients for brewing. Chinese liquor is roughly divided into twelve aroma types, each of which corresponds to a different koji, and there is a saying of "quding wine type" or "qu is the bone of wine".

But any kind of big song, the main ingredient must be wheat, and even the "fast song" - bran koji innovated after the founding of the People's Republic of China also uses wheat bran from wheat. Wheat and koji are naturally related.

From a microscopic point of view, the reason why wheat is used to make koji is mainly because it can provide a comfortable enough "hotbed" for microorganisms, and "comfort" here mainly refers to abundant nutrients. The proportion of nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats and inorganic salts of wheat is reasonable, and the wheat itself has a soft tissue structure, strong water absorption, and is easier to reproduce flora. At home, wheat is more likely to "mold" than other grains, that's the truth.

Guotai Wine Koji Making Workshop

Although koji is important for each type of liquor, the quality of the sauce type depends especially on koji. Taking Guotai wine as an example, the ratio of koji and sorghum dosage is about 1:1. Koji is not only a starter culture for sauce wine, but its status can even compete with red sorghum.

Because of this, Guotai and other head sauce wine brands attach great importance to wheat, in addition to forming the original intention of sacrificing wheat, they also "meticulously" and "cared for" the wheat base, and established a high-quality raw grain base management system.

It is understood that at present, Guotai Wine has successively developed the planting of 14,2 mu of organic wheat planting in Fugou County, Tanghe County, Xihua County (Huangpan District), Nanyang City, Xuchang City and other counties and cities in Henan Province, helping more than 9600,<> farmers, and building an agricultural company with a professional partnership business model, from seed selection, breeding to sowing and harvesting, the whole chain participates in the planting industry, creating a closed-loop quality control system of the whole industrial chain of seeding, harvesting, storage and transportation, covering the whole process from "one seed" to "one drop of fine wine".

It can be said that half of the national Taiwan wine is the contribution of Henan wheat, and the fragrant national Taiwan wine is inseparable from the contribution of Henan wheat and the sweat of wheat farmers, which is the root of the wheat festival held by the national Taiwan in Henan for three consecutive years.

Every drop of fine wine is full of the work of wheat farmers

The third National Taiwan Wheat Festival Ceremony will be held soon

"Huainanzi Say Lin Xun" has the famous phrase "The beauty of pure liquor begins with the elderly"; "Wine Song" also put forward that "there is no end to the meal, and the surplus is empty", all pointing out that the winemaking industry is an extension of the development of agriculture to a certain level, and the development of the winemaking industry is inseparable from the prosperity of agriculture.

Nowadays, more and more companies realize that the improvement of product quality should be traced upstream, because when the raw grain is grown, the winemaking has already begun, and fundamentally determines the quality of the wine. For this reason, Guotai Wine once said that the field is the "first workshop" of winemaking, and the wheat farmer is the first "winemaker".

Therefore, based on the inheritance of farming and the pursuit of quality, it is necessary to sacrifice wheat, and it is inevitable to pay tribute to wheat farmers.

From planting to brewing, these are two wonderful illusions in the world. The former is in heaven and earth, "planting a grain of corn in spring, harvesting ten thousand seeds in autumn", the latter is by the cellar pool, "cold plum makes the face heroic, and the urn is steamed full of fragrant", behind the beauty, there is the same hard work.

In ancient times, there was a saying that "three bitters in the world, iron brewing and grinding tofu", from raw material processing to koji saccharification, to brewing and distillation, to wine storage and filling. Every detail requires the care of the winemaker.

However, farming goes beyond that, from seedling tillering to getting up and pulling joints, to flowering and grouting until ripe harvest. Every growth requires the careful care of wheat farmers, and at the same time, it is necessary to strictly prevent sudden climate, lodging diseases, etc. It is also necessary to endure the torment of "steaming the summer and burning the back". McFarmer is not only the first "winemaker", but also the hardest "winemaker".

"Bitter hatred harvest every year, farmers work hard and hungry and break their intestines", a lot of ancient punishable peasant poems remain, and today, this state is gradually changing, whether at the national level or at the level of grain enterprises, from the perspective of reducing the burden of wheat farmers and increasing the income of wheat farmers, issuing and implementing relevant policies. For example, with the purpose of reducing farmers' planting costs and eliminating worries about wheat sales, Guotai has innovated its production and sales model, realizing standardized, large-scale, intensive and mechanized planting, helping the local agricultural industrial structure to change in a direction that is more beneficial to farmers.

Good food can make good wine. The wine industry feeds back agriculture, and the wheat festival activity of the national platform actually presents an example of mutual benefit and symbiosis, feeding back cycle, and provides ideas for rural revitalization to benefit the people and prosper. On June 6 this year, the third National Taiwan Wheat Festival Ceremony will be held, which will tell the industrial story of Guotai and Tanghe County, the "first sickle under the world" on the road to creating "China's new famous wine", and also the true love of fine wine for farmers, respect for farmers and love for farmers. (End)