Swirling the amber-colored wine in the glass, Li Mu said with a smile:
"The so-called sipping means bringing the wine glass to your lips, taking a small sip gently and slowly, distributing the wine in your mouth with the tip of your tongue, and savoring it carefully."
As he spoke, Li Mu raised his glass with both hands and made a gesture of invitation. Everyone immediately raised their glasses and imitated Li Mu's example, sipping lightly.
"Good wine." Chilong took a sip, feeling the amber-like wine blooming between his lips and teeth.
Fan Zeng refused to look at Chilong and asked Li Mu again:
"What's so good about it?"
Li Mu smiled slightly and said naturally:
"Please taste it carefully. A good Maotai-flavor liquor will have a sweet and sour taste at the tip of the tongue, astringent taste on the side of the tongue, a bit bitter taste at the base of the tongue, and a bit spicy feeling in the pharynx. The overall feeling is smooth.
, mellow and will make you feel very refreshed.”
"General Maotai-flavor liquor does not have these feelings. It smells like Maotai aroma, but there is no sense of the five flavors of "sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, astringent" in the mouth. Not to mention other flavors of liquor, generally
It will feel like your mouth is burning.”
Several old-timers are addicted to alcohol, so they naturally know how to appreciate wine.
Lin Xiuer and Long Xuejiao are young. When they drank alcohol in the past, they only found the wine to be too spicy and tasteless.
After being taught by Li Mu, I was pleasantly surprised to experience the five flavors of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and astringent.
Lin Xiuer was the most innocent and innocent person. When she tasted the magic of this wine, she immediately said excitedly:
“It’s really all five of them!”
Li Mu smiled slightly and continued the introduction:
"The second step is to suck."
After speaking, he smacked his lips.
"Smacking is to smack your mouth lightly, swallow the wine slowly while tasting, and naturally make a smacking or clicking sound. Good wine will make your throat and esophagus very soft."
"Even high-quality liquor like Laobaigan Erguotou will make you feel relaxed after the heat, while low-quality liquor will burn your throat and make you feel heartburn."
Chilong is a member of the military. He likes drinking and his temperament leads him to drink heavily. There is no time to drink slowly and carefully.
When I heard Li Mu’s introduction, I felt a different taste when I drank it.
Li Mu smiled slightly and said again:
"Here comes next."
The so-called oh, it's easy to understand.
It is to breathe quickly on the basis of sipping, so that the aroma of wine comes out from the nasal cavity. You can smell the aroma of good wine yourself, and there is no unpleasant smell like formaldehyde.
While tasting wine with the three seniors, everyone imitated Li Mu's example and really felt that drinking was different from usual drinking.
Fan Zeng asked leisurely:
"Then what's the explanation for smelling the aroma from an empty cup?"
Li Mu rotated the empty cup and continued to explain scientifically, which sounded refreshing to the three seniors.
He played with the transparent wine glass and said with a smile:
"In a cup that has been filled with good Maotai-flavor liquor, the aroma of the wine will remain for a long time, and the aroma is endless and refreshing."
"The main reason for this is that the polymerized macromolecular alcohol, many esters containing aromatic smells, volatilizes slowly, while the alcohol molecules of general Maotai-flavor liquor are small, and there are few esters with aromatic smells, which volatilizes very quickly.
It’s fast, and low-quality liquor can be very choking.”
Hearing Li Mu's eloquent words, the two beauties were also very interested. Li Mu dipped his little finger into a little wine and dabbed it on the palms of Long Xuejiao and Lin Xiuer respectively.
Then he continued:
"Rub your hands together a few times and smell the aroma. Good wine will feel sticky when you rub it. The aroma will be released slowly and for a longer time. The aroma will be rich, full, pure and not choking."
"Aunt Qing's wine is indeed the best wine I have ever tasted."
After some careful tasting, Li Mu invisibly increased the value of Qingzhu Wine.
Fan Zeng stroked his palms and smiled:
"Yes, Qing Yatou is indeed interested."
"When you meet a close friend, a thousand cups are too little. Drinking with someone who knows how to drink is really a beautiful thing. Come on! Let's use our chopsticks after everyone has finished their glasses."
While eating delicious food and sipping fine wine, Mr. Zhou Pinghai began to ask some questions about the operation of Longyu in recent years.
Li Mu did not hide this, and gave a brief introduction to Longyu's jurisdiction, its mineral deposits, and its future development.
This information shocked Long Xuejiao and Lin Xiuer to the extreme, but judging from Li Mu's appearance, it seemed that what he said was quite reserved, leaving some room for it.
But the tip of the iceberg revealed in just a few words has already shocked the two women to the extreme.
After three rounds of drinking, we drank and drank.
The meal is almost done.
After Chilong, Qingzhu and each of their seniors had mentioned a few glasses of wine, a box of wine that had been stored in dust for forty years had almost reached its bottom.
The banquet host and seniors all finished their toasts, and then Li Mu picked up the cup and said with a smile:
"Today I have the honor to have a drink and chat with the three seniors. I am very happy. I will bring a glass of wine to wish the three seniors good health, longevity and longevity."
The three seniors drank quite happily. Two of them, Li Chungang and Zhou Pinghai, had already turned rosy in their faces. They touched their cups in the air and drank them all in one gulp.
Chilong and Qingzhu stayed with them for a long time. Although they were not the main drinkers, they each drank more than one bottle.
The two girls, Long Xuejiao and Lin Xiuer, only tasted it briefly every time, and even took a slight sip, but their faces turned red. With their eyes turning, Lin Xiuer looked charming and smiled sweetly.
And Long Xuejiao, the iceberg beauty, also drank a little like fireworks, as if she were a fairy descending to earth, graceful and graceful.
I've been enjoying myself till now.
But Aunt Qing waved at this moment, and immediately someone outside the room was carrying a tray, taking away the leftovers and replacing them with a plate of cucumber cores, a plate of fried soybeans, and several exquisite side dishes to go with wine.
Li Mu's heart trembled when he saw this, knowing that the core of Wu He was here.
Qingzhu stood up at this time and said to Lin Xiuer and Long Xuejiao:
"Xuejiao, you go and be responsible for pouring wine for the seniors. Xiuxiu will stay here with your brother Li Mu. I'll go get some more jars of fine wine."
Fan Zeng heard this and said with a smile:
"Young girl, don't bother. It's embarrassing to come to your house all the time to drink. Today, I brought a jar of Immortal Drunk for my two fellow Taoists and little friend Li Mu to try."
Hearing the name of this wine, the reticent Zhou Pinghai actually rubbed his hands.
Li Chungang's eyes were also shining, and he said excitedly:
"Brother Fan, are you willing to give up?"
Fan Zeng said with a smile:
"Wine meets a close friend, and good wine should be enjoyed with people who know how to drink. Today is a good day."
As he spoke, he lowered his body and picked up a basketball-sized wine jar with one hand.
Chilong loved drinking. When he saw this old mud-sealed wine, he rubbed his hands happily and said:
"Xiao Mu, your Uncle Long owes you once, and this time I will benefit from it."
Li Mu didn't know the origin of this fine wine, so he couldn't help but ask:
"Uncle Long, this wine..."
Chilong said excitedly:
"Senior Fan is a drunken immortal and is extremely domineering. You are not familiar with this old man. You only know that he is proficient in pharmacology, but you don't know the efficacy of his medicinal wine. Drinking a cup of this wine is equivalent to extending your life by half a year!"