The biggest winner of this year's Oscar turned out to be "Parasite". It was a big surprise when I woke up today and saw the news. After all, I am also half a fan of Teacher Feng Junhao.
We are all laymen to comment on the plot and ideology of the film, so I will only talk about the wine that appeared in the film.
The protagonist's family lives in a semi-basement, is down and out, and has not eaten the last meal. So the first time they drank in the film, it was very cheap - Filite, the cheapest domestic beer on the market in Korea.
Anyone who's ever drunk Korean beers must be impressed by how unpleasant they are. Because their beer is mainly made of rice, which can bring too much acidity and a too light taste (beer should be brewed with barley, but Korea does not produce barley, and there are heavy taxes on imported agricultural products, so imported barley is also expensive ).
Interestingly, although this Filite is the cheapest Korean beer, it is almost the best, because the hops used are okay, and the wine has a hop aroma and is not too bitter.
Then, the classmates of the protagonist Ki Woo came to visit, and the two left the basement and found a place to sit and drink and chat, and they drank Jinro, a Korean national soju.
The biggest selling point of this wine is that it is cheap. The raw materials are mainly tapioca starch and sweet potatoes. After fermentation, they are distilled to a degree close to edible alcohol. Then, natural mineral water filtered with bamboo charcoal is added to reduce the intensity, and flavoring agents are added. Finally, it is filtered again with bamboo charcoal to obtain a wine with a body of more than 20 degrees.
Think of it as a light version of vodka that is slightly sweeter.
Because everyone in Korean dramas (can only) drink this, it spread all over the world with the popularity of Korean dramas.
It is indeed very popular with college students in Korea. In addition to being cheap, it is also versatile. You can drink it clean, with ice, or hot. It may also be mixed with any soft drink to enhance the taste.
Wine is indeed a prop that symbolizes identity and class in the play. For example, the protagonist's family drank such cheap wine at the beginning. After "staying" in the president's house on the first day, they turned out other people's hidden wine and drank it. .
So, President Park in the play, as the owner of a technology company and an upper-class society, owns a villa designed by a well-known designer in a wealthy area of South Korea. How about his house wine?
Let's take a look at this picture, and put out 7 bottles of wine at once.
Wine No. 6 is relatively clear and is the 21st year of the Royal Salute.
Royal Salute is probably the oldest whisky brand in Scotland on average, with their entry-level and youngest whisky being 21 years old.
The brand was founded in 1953 to celebrate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The reason why 21 years is its youngest and most popular product is because the Royal Navy will fire a 21-round salute to the air every year on the Queen's birthday.
Even the wine bottles are ceramic, all handmade.
Royal Salute was founded by Chivas Brothers. Because both belong to blended whisky, they will naturally share various original wine resources. As for the principle of sharing and distributing original wine, the principle is—
Let the Royal Salute choose first! The original wine they fancy is given priority to the exclusive warehouse of the Royal Salute for storage.
Because of its good quality, powerful name and loud cries, royal salutes are widely used for gift-giving in China. I don't know if Koreans use more for themselves or give more gifts. The president in the movie keeps this at home, and he still has requirements for wine.
In addition, the No. 4 wine in the picture is also the Royal Salute, but it is 38 years older.
Also known as the "Stone of Destiny", the wine takes its name from the stone on which successive Scottish kings stood at their coronations (it was later taken by England and returned to Scotland.)
Regardless of age, flavor or price, the 38-year-old Royal Salute Stone of Destiny is naturally more than 21 years old.
Then they drank other brands of whisky:
Wine No. 2 is Ballantine's 30 years old (it's 21 again, 38 again, and 30 again. Could it be that the director wants to show that these guys only pick old wines).
Ballantine's is the second largest selling Scotch whisky brand in the world (Johnnie Walker, of course).
But in the high-end whisky market in South Korea, Ballantine's market share has always been the first, so it is normal for this bottle of Ballantine to appear in the home of the Korean rich man in the play for 30 years.
However, I would recommend you to drink Ballantine's 17 Years Old, which has a very high cost performance. This wine has won the best blended whisky of the year in Jim Murray's "Whiskey Bible" for many years.
Wine No. 3 is Glenfiddich 15 years old.
Glenfiddich 15 years is characterized by the use of the Solera system for aging sherry, and the Solera system (Solera) composed of sherry barrels, bourbon barrels and new oak barrels.
The characteristics of the Solera system can be said in short: a barrel of wine needs to be bottled after 15 years, they will only pour half of the wine, and then fill it up and age in other barrels for 14 Years of wine; then after a year, the barrel is actually half 15 year old wine, half 16 year old wine, and then half poured out for bottling, and then filled with 14 year old wine...and so on and so forth, in this barrel There will be more and more old wines, and the flavor will become more and more mellow, and the 15-year-old whisky produced by the distillery will taste better and better.
The above are all whiskeys, but the last two are not.
Wine No. 5 is not very clear in the main picture. Later, the daughter in the play picked up the wine and blew the bottle. We can see that it is a transparent square bottle, which should be Patron.
Tequila is generally divided into unaged silver tequila (Silver or Blanco), slightly aged tequila (Reposado) with barrel aging for less than one year, and aged tequila (Anejo) with barrel aging for more than one year. ). The tequila that the daughter drinks in the play is colored, hence the latter two.
Because they are all aged in oak barrels, the taste of aged tequila will be a bit like young whiskey, but the sweetness and herbal flavors are richer, and the taste is stronger and more youthful than whisky of the same alcohol content. like.
Tequila is the national drink of Mexico. During the prohibition period in the United States, many Americans went to Mexico to drink on weekends and slowly brought the habit of drinking tequila to the United States.
However, for a long time, tequila and rum from the Caribbean were regarded as low-end alcohol compared to the cognac and whisky that the upper class in the United States liked to drink at the time.
Until the 1990s, a batch of precision-produced agave was packaged in various trendy glass bottles and slowly spread in the high-end market in the United States. And Patron is the most important driver and the biggest winner in this high-end tequila movement.
At present, tequila is not very popular in China, but basically every bar will have Patron tequila. Even if it is not cost-effective to use for bartending, it is quite compelling just to display it.
The last No. 7 beer is a Japanese beer. It seems that the president in the play also knows that Korean beer is bad, so he also buys beer imported from Japan. And it’s not even big brands like Suntory, Kirin, and Asahi.
It is the Japanese craft beer brand Xinhe Beer brewed by Belgian OEM.
I drank it once in Japan a few years ago, and I have to say that this is the most beautiful beer I have ever seen. Is there a sense of luxury! ?
For the beer series of Xinhe, two kinds of local Japanese ingredients are specially selected: yuzu from Kochi Prefecture and sansho from Wakayama Prefecture are added to the brewing process, and the raw materials are transported to De Graal, a professional brewery in Belgium, for brewing, and then exported to Japan and around the world.
As for the red beer in the play, it belongs to the Belgian Strong Dark Ale beer. In the brewing process, wine yeast and abbey beer yeast are added to make its alcohol content close to that of wine; some smoked malt is also used. , adding complexity to the flavor. The flavor is very strong and full, and it is a beer that can be tasted slowly.
In the movie, there is also a wine cabinet integrated with the refrigerator in the president's house. I don't know if it is a custom-made or a standard product. I really want to get one in my own home.
After the wine 8 is over, I will help the movie to promote it. I will be able to see "Parasite" on iQIYI later. Those who haven't watched it can pay attention.
Finally, I would like to share with you the director Bong Joon-ho who filmed "Parasite" (perhaps you have already seen the overwhelming reports about him). But as a half fan of him, I don't think "Parasite" is even one of his best works and highly recommend you to see his "Mother" and "Memories of Murder".
As for Director Bong who claimed to "drink till dawn" after winning the award, I hope he didn't drink Jinro!
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