It turns out that wine and coffee are so similar.

If you love wine, do you also have a fondness for coffee? As the two major health drinks loved by fashion-seeking white-collar workers, wine and coffee have become an indispensable part of life. The fragrance of wine and the fragrance of coffee can bring people different sensory enjoyment.

With the promotion of life concepts such as elegance and leisure, coffee and wine are becoming more and more popular. But does coffee have a strict grading system like wine? What are the similarities between wine and coffee? Let's go into the wonderful world of wine and coffee!

1. Similar raw materials

Grape

Cocoa

Grape is a kind of berry, which is generally spherical or oval, and can be used to eat directly or make wine. When grapes grow on grapevines, their maturity and sugar content have an important influence on the flavor of wine.

The coffee tree belongs to the small evergreen tree of Rubiaceae. The coffee we drink every day is baked from the nuts of the coffee beans grown on the coffee tree.

2. The style is influenced by the producing area.

Grape producing area

Coffee producing area

Grapevines generally grow in tropical, subtropical and temperate regions, and the quality of grapes is affected by soil, climate, light and many other aspects. The unique regional characteristics of different producing areas have a great impact on the wine flavor, for example, the new and old world wines have their own unique features. Sometimes even the same region has different characteristics, such as Bordeaux's left and right bank wines.

Like wine, coffee presents different flavors depending on the origin, origin, vintage and blending process of the beans. The most common coffee beans are Arabica and Robusta. Coffee also emphasizes geographical origin, and different growth environments can often give coffee different characteristics. Arabica grows best at high altitudes, while Robusta grows at low elevations.

3. They are all different varieties with different cups

Wine glass

Coffee cup

Drinking wine should be a kind of enjoyment, only elegant goblets can match the noble temperament of wine. The choice of wine glasses is very fastidious, generally tasting different wines need to match the corresponding glasses; and when tasting the wine, you need to smell the fragrance and watch the color, so a suitable wine glass is even more important. Common wine cups are Bordeaux cup, Burgundy cup, champagne cup, sweet wine cup and so on. Wine glasses should be light and thin, colorless and transparent, and can gather aroma.

A good cup of coffee, in addition to the need for high-quality raw materials and careful baking, the coffee cup also plays an extremely important role. The most basic requirement of a coffee cup is that it cannot react with coffee, so active metal can never be used as a coffee cup. There are also many kinds of coffee cups, such as ceramic cups, stainless steel cups, bone porcelain cups and so on. Coffee needs to drink while it is hot, so its cup body is generally thick, can condense hot gas, and ensure the aroma and taste of coffee.

Beans are also a kind of berries, often red when ripe, very similar to red grapes.

4. The tasting steps are similar.

Mix wine

Drink coffee

The tasting of wine pays attention to a complete combination of color and flavor: viewing the color can first know the quality, smelling the fragrance can feel the many flavors of the wine, tasting can experience the flow of the wine in the mouth, savoring it carefully and summing it up properly is a kind of emotional sublimation. A good wine should be well-balanced, medium-bodied, with smooth tannins, a smooth throat and a long finish.

Coffee is similar to wine in tasting. The taste of coffee is different, so when tasting, you should fully feel its aroma and watch its color carefully before you can taste the various flavors of coffee. A good cup of coffee is generally refreshing, fragrant and dark brown in color.

5. Pay attention to the drinking time.

Red wine time

Coffee time

As an alcoholic beverage, wine is not suitable for drinking in the morning. Because after a night, the toxic substances in the liver have been basically removed, if you drink at this time, it will inevitably bring additional burden to the liver. At noon, the human body is most sensitive to alcohol, and if you drink at this time, it is easy to get drunk, resulting in low spirits throughout the afternoon. After 15:00 in the afternoon, people's sense of smell and taste are the most sensitive, so this time is more suitable for wine tasting. Dinner time is the prime time for drinking wine, when the human body has the greatest tolerance to alcohol, it is not easy to get drunk, and the carcinogens accumulated in the human body can also be excreted in large quantities.

The best time to drink coffee is between 9:30 and 11:30 in the morning. Why is that? Because when you wake up every morning, the body naturally produces a hormone called cortisol, which helps the body adjust its biological clock and improve its alertness. The content of cortisol in the body will reach its peak around 7 or 8 o'clock, and it will decrease after nearly an hour, which is the best time to drink coffee. Because coffee can interact with hormones in the body, so that the content of cortisol to achieve the best, and then reduce the sense of fatigue at work. In addition, between 14:00 and 16:00 in the afternoon is also the most prone to drowsiness, when drinking a cup of coffee can help the body relieve fatigue and restore vitality. Because coffee can lift one's spirits, it is not suitable to drink at night or before going to bed.

6. All have good health effect.

Red wine health care

Coffee, stay awake.

Wine tastes sweet and astringent, with the effect of moistening the lungs, nourishing blood and promoting muscle. A glass of wine before a meal can effectively promote appetite, help intestinal peristalsis, and effectively expel harmful substances from the body. In addition, wine can maintain and regulate the physiological function of the human body, moderate drinking has a significant effect on people who are weak or suffering from sleep disorders. The strong antioxidants in wine can help women maintain their beauty and delay aging. People who often drink the right amount of wine can supplement the body's daily needs of water and a variety of nutrients, but also have a special effect on weight loss.

Drinking a moderate amount of coffee can be an appetizer and promote digestion and metabolism. Coffee can also increase the content of high-density cholesterol and speed up the metabolism of bad cholesterol. The caffeine contained in coffee also has a diuretic function, which can promote kidney function and effectively help lose weight. In addition, caffeine can also improve the sensitivity of the human body and eliminate fatigue. Drinking a cup of black coffee after a meal can whiten the skin.

Source: encyclopedia of Red Wine (Wen / Luo Yanfen)