It has to be said that in this era, not only are antiques easy to collect, but old wines are also plentiful.
Of course, there are not many popular brands of liquor, such as Erguotou and Tuopai. Because these liquors are cheap, for example, Erguotou costs 1.7 yuan a bottle, and Tuopai costs 1.6 yuan a bottle, so ordinary people buy them and drink them directly.
However, there are still many old liquors of some big brands, such as Moutai, Wuliangye, Xifeng, Fenjiu, **, Yanghe, Dongjiu, Luzhou Laojiao, Quanxing Daqu. Generally, families with better financial conditions will have one or two bottles at home.
After all, this kind of wine is a bit expensive and the brand is also big. After some people buy it or receive it as a gift, they mostly put it aside and are reluctant to drink it.
This created great convenience for Lao Na to collect this kind of old wine.
Especially when Lao Na told Yang Jing that he had a childhood friend who was now an officer in the Yanjing Military Region and could receive some old wine hidden in the homes of generals or colonels, Yang Jing immediately decided to let Lao Na go and collect it.
Just kidding, the wines specially supplied to the military area nowadays are all good wines, much better than the wines sold on the market. And there are no counterfeit wines in this era, so there is no need to worry about receiving fake wines.
Like the Lai Mao produced in the 1980s and the Lai Mao produced in 1949 to commemorate the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, these are all nonsense and are obviously fake wines. Although the Lai Mao brand was established as early as the 1920s, from the founding of the People's Republic of China to 1988, no wine named "Lai Mao" was produced in the entire Guizhou Province.
There are also many "People's Commune Wines" and "Serve the People Wines" that appeared in later generations, all of which are said to be Moutai wines. In fact, there is no need to identify whether this wine is produced by Moutai Distillery, you can tell just by looking at the trademark.
The trademarks on the bottles of those so-called "Serve the People Wine" and "People's Commune Wine" basically have aroma, alcohol content and content. They are obviously fake wines, no doubt about it!
Why? It’s simple. Net content is an indicator that was only introduced in the 1990s.
Could it be that those so-called "Serve the People Wine" and "People's Commune Wine" produced in the 1970s and 1980s all traveled back from the 1990s?
There is a famous saying in the later generations of liquor collectors, which goes, "I'm not afraid of expensive old liquor, I'm just afraid of fake old liquor!" Compared with all kinds of fake old liquors in later generations, in this era, let alone fake old liquors, even fake liquors are rare.
The common people in this era are still very simple. There is almost no fake wine for the common people to drink, and it is even rarer for the special wine supplied to major military regions to have fake wine. I guess no one dares to supply fake wine to major military regions in this era. If they are caught, they will be shot!
Yang Jing heard his uncle talk about something. If his uncle had not repeatedly assured him personally, Yang Jing would have thought he was just listening to a myth.
This matter is about a military doctor at a certain place giving gifts to the General Headquarters during the Chinese New Year.
Seven or eight years ago, when my uncle was busy with business in the south, he met an older brother who was a professional and regimental-level military officer. Before he retired, this older brother was in charge of logistics work in the affiliated hospital of this army-level military medical university.
My uncle said that this big brother was a very honest person, and since they had business dealings, they became familiar with each other. Every time my uncle went to his place, this big brother would have a good drink with my uncle.
During a drinking session, the elder brother talked about his work at a military medical university affiliated hospital. He said that in the early years of the new century, local troops would send gifts to the superiors of the headquarters in Yanjing every New Year and other festivals. Because their hospital was located very close to the production area of a famous liquor, they would send this famous liquor every New Year.
The military is not short of money, so even though their hospital is just an affiliated hospital of the Military Medical University, it can still talk to the superiors of the General Headquarters every year. Therefore, the number of famous liquors they send to the General Headquarters every year is measured in "containers".
In 2005 and 2006, this elder brother was the officer in charge of logistics of the affiliated hospital, so he was mainly responsible for the gift-giving. The elder brother said that the price of that kind of famous wine was not cheap at that time, more than 200 yuan per bottle, and the wine brewed from pure grain was of course expensive.
At that time, the hospital spent hundreds of millions of dollars on wine every year. The elder brother thought this was too extravagant, so he personally found the origin of the famous wine, spent 500,000 yuan a year, and hired an old craftsman who retired from the famous wine factory.
The old man told the retired craftsman that your task is to blend it with edible alcohol and other spices for me. As long as you can blend the flavor of this famous liquor, you can earn half a million a year.
This kind of work is absolutely impossible for ordinary people, but for an old craftsman who has worked in a winery for a lifetime, it is like catching snails with three fingers - a sure thing.
It didn't take long for the master craftsman to blend a wine that tasted almost exactly like the famous liquor. Even an old drunkard who had been tasting that famous liquor for years could not taste the difference in taste between the two wines.
As a result, this blended wine became the main gift for military hospitals. They were packaged in bottles of famous wines, stuffed into containers, and sent directly to the headquarters.
The cost of this blended wine is much cheaper than the famous wine produced by the winery. This item alone can save the affiliated hospital nearly 100 million yuan every year!
My uncle didn't believe it at the time and asked the big brother, "Aren't you afraid that your superiors will get out and punish you if you do this?"
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