Each has its own characteristics.

1. Comparison of raw materials and taste

As a classic representative of multi-grain brewing, Wuliangye uses five kinds of grains: sorghum, rice, glutinous rice, wheat and corn as raw materials. It is fermented in cellars, aged for many years, and carefully blended. The combination of five kinds of grains makes the taste and aroma richer.

Compared with Wuliangye, Luzhou Laojiao is brewed from pure sorghum. It is a single-grain wine with a purer taste and outstanding cellar aroma. Most of the famous Chinese wines that are well-known at home and abroad are made from sorghum as the main ingredient, and the taste is relatively pure. Luzhou sorghum produced in the Luzhou Laojiao organic sorghum planting base is also known as "glutinous red sorghum". It is a unique crop in southern Sichuan and is also the best raw material for brewing strong-flavor liquor.

2. Process comparison

Luzhou Laojiao adopts the original cellar process, that is, the wine is taken out and put back into the same cellar to ensure uniform flavor; the original cellar method emphasizes maintaining The style of the original cellar mother's grains and the grade quality of the cellar pool. The quality of the cellar determines the quality of Daqu liquor, which is commonly known as "thousand-year-old cellars ten thousand years of grains".

Wuliangye adopts the pit-running process, also known as the pit-running layered distillation process. Running the cellar refers to taking the fermented fermented grains out of the cellar, adding raw and auxiliary materials, distilling the wine, gelatinizing, measuring water, cooling and cooling, adding koji powder, and then loading it into a prepared empty cellar. Do not return the fermented grains to the original cellar.

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The inheritance significance of Luzhou Laojiao:

The traditional brewing techniques of Luzhou Laojiao wine embody the original spirit of the Chinese nation and are popular in Sichuan and even the whole country. Has outstanding value. Because of its long-term nature across time and space and its unique cultural geography, this folk traditional craft has precious historical value, scientific value, humanistic value, folk value, economic value and social value. It and other folk handicrafts in my country Likewise, it is also the foundation and lifeblood of Chinese civilization.

Because Luzhou Laojiao liquor uses thousands of years of traditional craftsmanship, operations, and equipment, Chinese liquor is unique among the world’s liquors. It fully demonstrates that China’s brewing skills have a long history and are a precious heritage of the Chinese nation.