1, Maotai
Maotai liquor is produced in Maotai Town, renhuai city, Guizhou Province, and is one of the three largest distilled liquors in the world. It is the originator and top representative of China Daqu Maotai-flavor liquor. Its brewing technology was listed in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage list of the country and enjoyed the title of "national wine". Maotai liquor is mellow and white, crystal clear, with outstanding sauce flavor, elegant and delicate, low but not light, strong but not bright, and long aftertaste. Open the bottle cap of Moutai, there is a fragrant smell, refreshing; Fine-grained soy sauce, slightly sweet.
Maotai liquor is pure, transparent and mellow, and consists of three special flavors: sauce flavor, cellar bottom flavor and mellow sweetness. At present, there are more than 300 known aroma components. Maotai liquor has many aroma components, and some people praise it as "the three houses next door are drunk, and the bottle opens ten miles after the rain." Maotai liquor is fragrant but not bright, and no spices are added in the brewing process. All aroma components are naturally formed during repeated fermentation. Maotai liquor is known as the ultra-high-end luxury and flowing gold in the field of liquor in China, and has long occupied the first place in China's top liquor.
2. Wuliangye
Wuliangye is brewed from five kinds of grains, namely wheat, rice, corn, sorghum and glutinous rice, which is unique among Luzhou-flavor liquors in China. Yao Zixue Qu brewed by Yao family in Yibin in Song Dynasty is the most mature prototype of Wuliangye, which uses five kinds of grains: soybean, rice, sorghum, glutinous rice and buckwheat. In A.D. 1368, Chen Jicheng Yao, a native of Yibin, summed up Chen's secret recipe, which was called "miscellaneous grains wine", and was renamed "Wuliangye" by Juren in the late Qing Dynasty. Wuliangye is one of the top liquors in China and one of the three famous liquors in China. It has a unique style of "long aroma, mellow taste, sweet entrance, clear throat, harmonious taste and just right", and is famous for its comprehensive aroma in Daqu wine.
A bottle of collection-grade Wuliangye is 258,888 yuan, and a drop of wine is worth 4 yuan.
The picture shows Wuliangye displayed on the supermarket shelves.
3. Yanghe Daqu
Yanghe Town, Siyang County, Jiangsu Province was already a famous wine-making place in the Han Dynasty. Yanghe Daqu is a high-temperature Daqu cultivated with high-quality sticky sorghum as raw material, wheat, barley and peas as saccharifying starter, and Ren Mei spring water as water source. Yanghe Daqu belongs to Luzhou-flavor Daqu liquor, with clear and transparent liquor body, rich and elegant wine aroma, fresh and sweet entrance and delicate and long taste.
4. LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD Limited
In A.D. 1324, Guo Huaiyu, the father of koji-making, invented glycolic acid koji and brewed the first generation of Luzhou Daqu liquor, which created the brewing history of Luzhou-flavor liquor. By the first year of Hongxi, Emperor Renzong of Ming Dynasty, Shi, a master brewer, had improved the dry, spicy and bitter ingredients in Daqu medicine after years of efforts, and developed the "pit brewing" method, which made the production technology of Luzhou Daqu wine more perfect and made the brewing of Daqu wine enter the "second generation" of transformation to mud pit Luzhou-flavor production. During the apocalypse, Luzhou liquor quietly flourished. After Guo Huaiyu and Shi, Shu Chengzong, the founder of the third generation of cellar Daqu, came into being. He inherited Shu's liquor industry, directly engaged in the research of production, management and brewing technology, and summarized and explored a whole set of Daqu liquor technology from wine storage in pits to "culture in pits, solid-state fermentation, fat aging and aroma production in mud pits". At this point, the brewing of Luzhou-flavor Daqu liquor has entered the stage of "Dacheng". Then, for more than 690 years, mentoring came down in one continuous line and has been passed down to this day.
LU ZHOU LAO JIAO CO.,LTD is one of the four oldest wines in China, "the originator of Luzhou-flavor and the best in wine". Its 1573 national treasure cellar group 1996 became the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in the industry, and its traditional wine-making technology was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists in 2006, which was internationally called "double national treasure units". Its product, Guojiao 1573, is known as "Brewing of Living Cultural Relics" and "China Liquor Appreciation Standard Liquor".
5. Fenjiu
Fenjiu is a typical representative of Fen-flavor liquor. Because it is produced in Xinghua Village, Fenyang City, Shanxi Province, it is also called "Xinghua Village Wine". Fenjiu is famous for its exquisite craftsmanship and long history. Known for its soft taste, sweet taste and long aftertaste, it enjoys high popularity, reputation and loyalty among consumers at home and abroad. In history, Fenjiu has experienced three glories. Fenjiu has a long history of about 4000 years. /kloc-During the Northern and Southern Dynasties 0/500 years ago, Fenjiu was highly praised by Wu Chengdi in the Northern Qi Dynasty and recorded in the twenty-fourth history, making Fenjiu famous in one fell swoop. Known as the earliest national wine and the treasure of the country, it is the crystallization of the wisdom and labor achievements of the ancient working people in China.
6. Langjiu
Langjiu, a specialty of Erlang Town, Gulin County, Sichuan Province, is a symbolic product of chinese national geography. Langjiu is located in Erlang Town, Chishui River, and is located in the high-quality brewing area of Maotai-flavor liquor. Chishui River, known as the "River of Fine Wine" since ancient times, gave birth to two maotai-flavor liquors, China Maotai and Qinghualang. In addition, Langjiu also has Tianbao Cave, the largest natural wine storage cave in the world, which is full of fragrance and mature.
Langjiu is characterized by "outstanding sauce flavor, mellow and refreshing, elegant and delicate, long aftertaste and long fragrance in an empty cup". In the brewing process, although it is made according to the technology of Maotai, its taste is different from that of Maotai, and its aroma is more intense, with a "strong maotai flavor" taste. Therefore, someone once praised: "There are many fine wines in Shu, and Langjiu has a long aftertaste." The flavor type of Langjiu is called "one tree with three flowers", which refers to Luzhou-flavor, Maotai-flavor and concurrently-flavor.
10,000 yuan of century-old Langjiu.
7. Gu Jing Winery
Gu Jing Winery is a traditional famous wine in Bozhou. Daqu Luzhou-flavor liquor is produced in Bozhou City, Anhui Province, and is a specialty of Bozhou area. Gu Jing Winery inherits the "Nine-Way Wine Transportation Method" and adopts "infinite water, peach blossom in spring". It has a unique style of "clear color like crystal, pure fragrance like blue, sweet and mellow entrance and long aftertaste" and is known as "peony in wine". Gu Jing Winery has a very long history in the history of brewing in China. Its origin began in the first year of Jian 'an (196), and Cao Cao presented the "Jiuyun Spring Wine" produced in his hometown of Bozhou and its brewing method to Liu Xie, Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty.
It is made from high-quality wheat in Huaibei Plain, high-quality groundwater in Gujing Town, Anhui Province and high-quality sorghum with full grains and strong waxy properties by using its natural microbial environment in a specific area of Gujing Town, Bozhou City, according to the traditional technology of Gu Jing Winery. The types and contents of esters in Gu Jing distilleries are generally higher than those in other Luzhou-flavor Daqu liquors. According to the current quantitative analysis, Gu Jing Distillery contains more than 80 kinds of aroma substances, which is 15~30 more than other Luzhou-flavor liquors, and the content of these aroma substances is 2~3 times that of other Luzhou-flavor liquors. At the same time, Gu Jing Winery also has a complete series of organic acid propyl ester, which is not available in other Luzhou-flavor Daqu wines.
8. xifeng liquor
Xifeng liquor, called Qin liquor and Liulin liquor in ancient times, is a local traditional famous wine produced in Liulin Town, Fengxiang County, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province, and it is the hometown. It began in Shang Dynasty and flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties. It has a history of more than 3,000 years, and there are many allusions about Su Shi's drinking. Xifeng liquor is mellow, clear but not light, strong but not bright, sour but not astringent, bitter but not sticky, fragrant but not pungent, spicy but not choking. After drinking it, it will be very sweet and the taste will last for a long time. It is known as "sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and fragrant." Xifeng liquor's Phoenix fragrance is different from Maotai's maotai, Wuliangye's fragrance, Fenjiu's fragrance, and Sanhua's rice fragrance. Instead, it combines the strengths of a variety of wines and melts in one furnace, making the maotai fragrance clear and thick.
9. Dongjiu
Dongjiu is produced in Donggongsi Town, Huichuan District, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. It is one of the eight famous wines in China and one of the only two national famous wines in Guizhou Province. The production history of Dongjiu can be traced back to the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties (AD 220 -589). 1957 dong winery, like maotai winery, has developed from a small workshop before liberation to an enterprise. The wine it brewed won the title of "China Famous Wine" for four times in the second, third, fourth and fifth national wine tasting, and won the national gold medal. Its production technology and formula are unique in the world today, and it is unique in the distilled liquor industry, and it has been permanently listed as a "state secret" by the state authorities. In August, 2008, the local standard of "Dongxiang" liquor was officially determined by the national competent department, and Dongjiu is a typical representative of "Dongxiang" liquor in China.
10, Jian Nanchun
Jiannanchun is a specialty of Jiannan Town, Mianzhu City, Sichuan Province. Mianzhu was named "Jiannanchun" because it belonged to Chao Jiannan in the Tang Dynasty. The history of Jian Nanchun can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty 1500 years ago. According to post-Tang Dezong's book, in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, Jian Nanchun was selected as the royal wine of the court. According to legend, Li Bai once sold fur coats here to buy wine to drink this wine, leaving a story of "solving the golden mink" and "solving the mink to redeem the wine". In the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Shi praised this honey wine as "three-opening altar full of fragrance" and "slightly turbid nectar". Jian Nanchun is the only famous China wine recorded in the official history in modern China, and the only remaining Datang wine in China. Its traditional brewing technology has been recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage.
Jiannanchun wine is made of sorghum, rice, glutinous rice, wheat and corn, and made of wheat into medium-high temperature koji. Solid-state low-temperature mud pit fermentation is formed by continuous fermentation, mixed steaming and mixed burning, quality picking, original storage and careful blending. Traditional brewing techniques accumulated for a long time in specific space and environmental places include: the maintenance and inheritance of old pits; Identification skills of Daqu drug production; Wine selection skills in raw wine brewing; Old wine aging technology; Tasting, blending skills and related sub-projects. The product is rich in aroma, pure and elegant, mellow and soft, sweet and refreshing, with a long aftertaste, harmonious aroma, full and round body and typical and unique style.
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There are also many local wine brands in Hunan, and alcoholic liquor is probably the most familiar one. Someone once asked: Where is Xiangxi? Xiangxi in Shen Congwen's books, Song Zu Ying's songs, Huang Yongyu's paintings and strong alcoholic liquor, Shen Congwen, Song Zu Ying, Huang Yongyu and alcoholic liquor are the "four business cards" of Xiangxi. Brew amazing wine with the mind of mountains and rivers. Jiugui Liquor, like Shen Congwen's articles, Song Zu Ying's songs and Huang Yongyu's paintings, assiduously absorbed the landscape spirituality of Xiangxi, bearing the Zhong Ling Yu Xiu in Xiangxi, and ended up so simple and natural.
There are three major strains of alcoholics, namely "internal reference", "alcoholic" and "fragrant spring". The top is the internal reference. The price of 500ml alcoholic ginseng wine is close to each bottle 1500 yuan, which is among the best in domestic famous wines. The name of internal reference comes from the joint creativity of Huang Yongyu, a former national politician and artist, which means internal reference and enjoyment. The research and development lineup of Internal Reference consists of politicians, artists and bartenders. Its packaging was designed by master Huang Yongyu and engraved with the word "internal reference"; Its body has been carefully blended by the bartender. Therefore, the internal reference is the perfect unity of cultural value, artistic value and commercial value. Internal ginseng wine is the top-grade original wine accumulated by Jiugui Liquor Company for many years, so the output is extremely limited, and only limited production and quantitative sales can be implemented. As Master Huang Yongyu said, "Drink one bottle, one less bottle, one less bite, one less bite". The wine is fragrant, soft and elegant, mellow, harmonious in flavor, long in aftertaste and outstanding in flavor, and it is the best in Luzhou-flavor liquor.
Jiugui Liquor relies on the unique climate, environment, water and soil in Xiangxi, and on the basis of inheriting the secret recipe of Xiangxi folk brewing technology, boldly absorbs the respective advantages of modern Daqu and Xiaoqu techniques. The unique and exquisite use of koji, water, mud and materials, and the unique brewing technology, blending technology and storage technology make Jiugui liquor clear and transparent in color, fragrant in cellar, elegant and harmonious in sauce flavor, mellow and sweet in taste and long in refreshing body.
Among the 12 aroma types of China liquor, the aroma of Jiugui liquor is unique and original. The so-called "two" and "three" are complicated Aroma refers to the characteristics of alcoholic liquor with three basic aroma types: strong aroma, faint scent and maotai flavor, with three flavors in one bite, strong before and clear after maotai flavor.
12, the ancestor of wine, Du Kang
How to solve your worries? Only Du Kang. Dukang wine is a famous historical wine in China, named after it was first produced in Du Kang, and has the reputation of "tribute wine" and "immortal wine". Jiuquan, the spring water for brewing Dukang wine, is located in Jiuquan ditch of Du Kang village in the south of Luoyang City, Henan Province. The water in Jiuquan is cool and clear, sweet and pure. Every summer, you can smell a natural fragrance of Jiuquan. Dukang liquor belongs to Luzhou-flavor, which uses high-quality wheat, high-temperature mixing and selected waxy sorghum as brewing raw materials.