After working in Maotai Town for more than half a year, I discovered an interesting phenomenon of the locals treating guests to drinks: If you invite foreign guests to drink the national wine "Feitian Moutai", please don't be too happy, they will treat you as an "outsider" I only talk to you about business and don’t really treat you as a friend. I guess it will be difficult for you to buy good wine this time!

Why do people in Renhuai rarely treat you to drink "Moutai" when they treat you to dinner?

If what you are treated to today is a "three-no product": a white ceramic bottle without a trademark , no outer box, not even the production date and manufacturer (locally called light bottle wine). Congratulations, I have treated you as a friend and entertained you with private wine.

Why do people from Renhuai seldom treat you to drink "Moutai" when they treat you to dinner?

When you find out that people from Moutai treat you to drink today, they take a few bottles of slightly yellow "Moutai" from the car "Mineral water" comes down, then your treatment is high, he treats you as a "buddy", today is not just inviting you to drink, it is a "wine tasting", it may be old wine just from his own wine cellar. "Rounds of wine." There will be an "examination" next. You have to carefully taste the characteristics of this bottle of wine. Now you are not far away from buying a truly good wine.

Why do people in Renhuai rarely treat you to a drink of "Maotai" when you are having dinner?

"Maotai" is a traditional handmade agricultural product that is highly processed

What is Daqu Jiangxiang? liquor?

Based on the production process and quality, Maotai-flavor liquor can be divided into four categories: Bunsha wine, Fansha wine, Shasha wine, and Chuanxiang wine. Among them, Baosha wine uses high-temperature Daqu as a saccharification starter and undergoes solid-state fermentation production, so it is also called Daqu Maotai-flavor wine. Authentic Daqu Maotai-flavor wine is produced in Maotai Town, Guizhou Province. It is sourced from local materials and undergoes nine times of cooking, eight times of fermentation, seven times of wine extraction, and five years of storage before leaving the factory. The price of liquor varies widely, ranging from tens of thousands of yuan with no ceiling to a few yuan with no bottom line. Among them, Daqu Maotai-flavor liquor is a relatively expensive category. Why is it so expensive? Let the editor answer it for you one by one.

1. Raw material essence

The red-tasseled glutinous sorghum produced in Maotai Town, Guizhou Province is one of the core raw materials of Daqu Maotai-flavor wine. It has small particles, thick skin and waxy character. It is strong and resistant to cooking, and its price is 3-4 times that of ordinary sorghum. In order to ensure product quality, the authentic Daqu Maotai-flavor wine insists on using this kind of sorghum, so the brewing cost is high

Why do people in Renhuai rarely treat you to drink "Maotai" when you are having dinner?

The red-tasseled glutinous sorghum produced in Maotai Town, Guizhou Province is one of the core raw materials of Daqu Maotai-flavor wine. It has small particles, thick skin, strong waxiness, and resistance to cooking. Its price is 3-4 times that of ordinary sorghum. In order to ensure product quality, authentic Daqu Maotai-flavor wine insists on using this kind of sorghum, so the brewing cost is high.

2. Low wine yield

There is an old saying among winemakers in Maotai Town, which is "five pounds of grain and one pound of wine." The liquor yield of Daqu Maotai-flavor liquor is relatively low. One pound of grain can yield only two taels of liquor. However, for the strong-flavor liquor, the liquor yield of raw grain can reach more than 45%. Things are rare and expensive, so the price of Daqu Maotai-flavor wine is naturally not low.