Wine Classification

A: Classified by grape

1. Wild Grape Wine : wine made from natural wild grape.
2. Growing Grape Wine: wine made from different varieties of grown grapes

B: Classified by color

1. White Wine: wine made from white grapes or light-red-skin grapes. Grape juice is separated from skin and only juice goes for fermentation to make wine. The color of this variety of wine starts from pale with green tinge, pale straw, straw to dark straw.
2. Red Wine: wine made from redskin grapes. Grape juice and skin go for fermentation together first and then separated for winemaking. The color of this variety of wine starts from rose, ruby, rich ruby to plum and dark plum.
3. Rose Wine: wine made from redskin white pulp grapes. Grape juice and skin go for fermentation together for a short period of time. When the juice gets the desired color, juice is separated from the skin and other residues for further fermentation and then made into rose wine. The color of this variety of wine is rose, pink or light red.

C: Classified by content of sugar.

1. Dry Wine: only little sugar is left after fermentation. The content of sugar is less than 4 grams per liter. The taste of wine is sour instead of sweet.
2. Semi-dry Wine: the content of sugar is between 4 and 12 grams and the taste of the wine is a little sweet.
3. Semi-sweet Wine: the content of sugar is between 12-50 grams and the taste of the wine is sweet and smooth.
4. Sweet Wine: the content of sugar is above 50 grams per liter and the taste of the wine is pure sweet.

D: Classified by carbonation

1. Pure Wine: wine which is free from carbon dioxides.
2. Sparkling Wine: wine which has carbon dioxides in it. Carbonated wine and champagne belong to this type.

E: Herbal Added Wine: wine that are added herbals which are good for stomach and spleen. For example, Changyu vermouth belongs to this type. Vermouth is made from an old variety of grapes and it is good for appetite.

F: Brandy: made from wine. They are distilled wine. The famous brandy is made in Cognac in France. It was not until early 20 century that Changyu began for the first time in China to make and sell brandy both in China and abroad.