Introduction to osmanthus wine
Osmanthus wine is a famous specialty wine from Beibei, Chongqing, Han Chinese. The osmanthus wine brewed by Guangxi Brewery Factory still has the Wu Gang brand trademark.
Osmanthus wine is light yellow in color, has a prominent fragrance of osmanthus, and has the unique mellow aroma of mountain grapes. It is sweet and sour, mellow and soft, and has a long-lasting fragrance.
Efficacy: Regular drinking can strengthen the spleen and stomach, aid digestion, promote blood circulation and replenish qi.
Technology: Guilin brand osmanthus wine is made from local osmanthus and mountain grapes, which are soaked, distilled, adjusted, aged and filtered. The alcohol content is 15° to 20°.
Manufacturer: Guangxi Guilin Lingui Osmanthus Distillery.
Awards: Awarded as high-quality wine and high-quality food in 1984 and 1989 respectively.
Osmanthus wine
Ingredients: Sanhua wine, fresh osmanthus
Alcohol content: 42 (V/V)
Sugar content: ≤ 50g/L (calculated as glucose)
Net content: 500ml
The origin of osmanthus and osmanthus wine
There is no way to verify when the wine originated.
But judging from the legend, it seems to be earlier than recorded history.
There is a god of wine in Greek mythology. In Chinese mythology, there is Wu Gang of the Moon Palace who brewed osmanthus wine. legend.
Judging from the unearthed cultural relics, there are wine utensils from the winemaking workshop sites of the Shang Dynasty (16th to 11th centuries BC): Zun, Yao, Jue, Hu, Yi, and the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234 AD) Year) copper wine steaming pot.
This shows that the Jin Dynasty (Southern Song Dynasty) had begun to use distillation to make liquor (high-strength liquor).
Judging from the literature, the "Historical Records" of the Western Han Dynasty (206 BC to 25 AD) contains a description of the use of grapes to make wine in the Western Regions.
It can be inferred from this that people have begun to brew sweet wine (low-alcohol wine) in prehistoric times, and the use of distillation to make white wine (high-alcohol wine) should be around the Jin Dynasty (Southern Song Dynasty).
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With osmanthus, osmanthus wine can be brewed.
People are particularly interested in osmanthus wine. They often drink osmanthus wine when toasting, and poets often sing about osmanthus wine.
Do you know where the osmanthus and osmanthus wine come from?
Legend has it that in ancient times, there lived a widow selling mountain wine at the foot of Liangying Mountain. She was generous and kind-hearted, and the wine she brewed was mellow and sweet. People respected her and called her the Fairy Wine Lady.
One winter, it was freezing cold.
In the early morning, Lady Xianjiu had just opened the door, and suddenly she saw a skinny, half-clothed man lying outside the door. He looked like a beggar.
The Wine Fairy touched the man's nose and mouth, and there was still a little breath, so she carried him back home, first filled him with hot soup, and then fed him half a cup of wine. The man slowly regained consciousness and excitedly Said, "Thank you, madam, for saving my life.
I am a paralyzed person. If I go out, I will either freeze to death or starve to death. Please be kind and take me in for a few more days." Sister-in-law Xianjiu was in a dilemma. As the saying goes, "There are many widows," and if a man like this lives at home, others will gossip about him.
But thinking about it again, I can’t watch him freeze to death or starve to death! Finally he nodded and agreed to let him stay temporarily.
As expected, the gossip about Lady Guan Qianxianjiu spread quickly, and everyone became alienated from her. The number of people who came to the hotel to buy wine became less and less day by day.
But Lady Xianjiu endured the pain and tried her best to take care of the man.
Later, no one came to buy wine. She really couldn't maintain it, so the man left without saying goodbye.
Lady Xianjiu was worried and searched everywhere. She met an old man with white hair on the hillside, walking with difficulty carrying a load of dry firewood.
Lady Xianjiu was about to help when the old man suddenly fell down and scattered firewood all over the ground. The old man closed his eyes and trembled his lips, shouting weakly: "Water, water,..." on the barren hillside. Where's the water? Lady Xianjiu bit her middle finger, and immediately blood started to flow. She put her finger to the old man's mouth, and the old man suddenly disappeared.
With a gust of breeze, a yellow cloth bag flew from the sky. The bag was filled with many small yellow paper bags, and there was also a yellow note that read: The moon palace gives osmanthus seeds to reward good people.
The laurel trees are green with good fortune, and the trees are full of flowers with long life.
Pick flowers to make osmanthus wine, and send it to mom and dad first.
Wu Gang helps those who are doing good, and brings disaster to those who are treacherous and slippery.
Only then did Madam Xianjiu understand that the original paralyzed man and the old man carrying firewood were both transformed by Wu Gang.
As soon as the news spread, people from far and near came to ask for Guizi.
A kind-hearted person planted osmanthus seeds, and soon osmanthus trees grew and osmanthus blossoms filled the courtyard with sweet fragrance and infinite glory.
The osmanthus seeds planted by a person with evil intentions will not take root and germinate, so he feels embarrassed and will change his mind to do good.
Everyone is very grateful to Lady Xianjiu. It was her good deeds that moved the great immortal Wu Gang who managed the osmanthus tree in the Moon Palace, and introduced osmanthus wine to the world. From then on, there were osmanthus and osmanthus wine in the world.
The legend of osmanthus wine
Since ancient times, people have regarded osmanthus as a symbol of wealth, good fortune, and prosperity. The wine brewed from osmanthus is naturally also very popular. It is said that there is a man who lives at the foot of Liangying Mountain. A widow who sells mountain wine is kind and generous. The wine she makes is sweet, so she is honored as the Fairy Wine Lady.
One winter morning, Lady Xianjiu found a naked, skinny male beggar lying in front of her door.
Lady Xianjiu touched his nose and mouth, and when he still had some breath, she carried him home.
After giving him a bowl of hot soup and then letting him drink half a bowl of wine, the beggar gradually regained consciousness and quickly thanked her, "Thank you madam for saving my life. You see, I am paralyzed. "It's inconvenient, can you keep me for a few more days, otherwise I will either freeze to death or starve to death when I go out?" Lady Xianjiu was embarrassed, "There is a lot of trouble in front of the widow's door." Others would gossip about him when he lived at home, but he was pitiful. Agree to keep him for a few days.
In a few days, there was really a lot of talk about Lady Wine Fairy. Everyone gradually alienated her, and fewer and fewer people bought wine. Life was difficult for Lady Wine Fairy, but she still took care of the beggars with all her heart. .
In the end, no one came to buy wine, and life was no longer possible. Seeing this scene, the beggar felt sorry and left secretly.
Lady Xianjiu couldn’t worry about going out to look for him. She met an old man halfway with a load of firewood on her shoulders and was walking hard. Suddenly, the old man fell to the ground and scattered the firewood. The wine lady hurried over and saw that the old man's breath was weak and he was shouting "Water, water..." How could there be water in the middle of nowhere? Lady Xianjiu bit her finger and was about to drip blood into the old man's mouth when the old man suddenly disappeared.
There was a breeze, and a yellow cloth bag flew from the sky. There were many small yellow paper bags in the bag, and a yellow note, which read:
The moon palace gives cinnamon seeds to reward good deeds. people.
The laurel trees are green with good fortune, and the trees are full of flowers with long life.
Pick flowers to make osmanthus wine, and send it to mom and dad first.
Wu Gang helps those who are doing good, and brings disaster to those who are treacherous and slippery.
At this time, Lady Xianjiu understood that those two people were transformed by Wu Gang.
She happily distributed these sweet-scented osmanthus seeds to everyone. Kind-hearted people planted the seeds, and soon osmanthus trees grew, full of sweet-scented osmanthus flowers, and the courtyard was full of sweet fragrance; people with evil intentions planted sweet-scented osmanthus flowers, The seeds did not germinate.
Since then, there have been osmanthus and osmanthus wine, which symbolize wealth and auspiciousness and can distinguish between good and evil.
Effects of Osmanthus Wine
Osmanthus wine is made from golden osmanthus that blooms in autumn as raw material, and is aged with high-quality rice wine. It has the characteristics of golden color, fragrant fragrance, sweet and sour taste. It is the best wine for banquets and cocktails. It is also a good drink for yourself or as a gift to relatives and friends.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that Osmanthus fragrans is warm in nature and pungent in nature, and can be decoctioned, brewed into tea or soaked in wine for oral administration. Certain therapeutic effect.
Cinnamon twigs, cinnamon seeds, and cinnamon roots can all be used as medicine.
Guizhi Decoction, which is prepared from cassia twig, peony, ginger, jujube and licorice, is specially designed to treat exogenous wind evil, fever and headache.
Cinnamon root has a sweet and slightly astringent taste.
Osmanthus fragrans is a flower of the Oleaceae family. It has a pungent taste and warms the meridian of the lungs and large intestine. "Hernia" refers to constant heat and pain in the abdomen; Or the liver qi fire rushes up from the chest to the throat to the abdominal cramps, chest tightness and shortness of breath, dizziness, palpitations, irritability, gas accumulation in the intestines, hyperperistalsis or spasm, phlegm and saliva that cannot be coughed up, etc. It has good curative effects.
Regular consumption is obviously helpful for beauty and skin care.
The ancients believed that osmanthus is the best of all medicines, so wine brewed with osmanthus can achieve the effect of "drinking it can extend your life to a thousand years."
For example, in the Han Dynasty, osmanthus wine was a good product used by people to worship gods and ancestors. After the sacrifice, the younger generations offered osmanthus wine to their elders. After the elders drank it, it symbolized longevity.
Osmanthus tea can beautify the skin, soothe the throat, improve the symptoms of phlegm and cough, and treat duodenal ulcer, measles, stomach cold and stomachache, bad breath, and blurred vision.
Efficacy: This wine is sweet and mellow, and has the functions of appetizing, refreshing, strengthening the spleen and replenishing deficiency.
Osmanthus wine is especially suitable for women to drink and is praised as the "happy wine for women".
There is the theory and practice of flower therapy in Chinese medicine, and osmanthus wine is a typical example.
Production of osmanthus wine
Production of osmanthus wine: first make liquor, then pack and ferment the wine, ferment for 1-3 years, and usually go on the market the next year.
Before being put on the market, fresh osmanthus is soaked into osmanthus dew and infiltrated into white wine to make osmanthus wine.
Changshu sweet-scented osmanthus wine has left behind the famous saying of Weng Tonghe, “Pede the green fields with paths, leave the dew to brew the yellow flowers.”
With the improvement of brewing technology, osmanthus wine has the characteristics of "excellent quality, low alcohol content, beautiful and transparent color, fragrant and sweet wine taste, and can be drunk all year round, suitable for men, women and children of all ages". It becomes a good product for drinking and giving.
A good way to make sweet-scented osmanthus wine
A good way to make sweet-scented sweet-scented osmanthus wine
1. Soak rice: Pour water into the jar, submerge the rice, and stir with a wooden ladle Let the dirt float and throw it away.
The four seasons are suitable.
2. Steam the rice: Place the rice in the basket, burn it over high heat, until it is 80% cooked, remove from the fire, and water, first in the middle of the rice and then around the basket, until the temperature drops below three degrees.
3. Mix the koji: Spread it flat on the table, sprinkle it on a curved surface, and mix it evenly.
4. Install the cylinder: first place a wooden stick in the center of the cylinder, put the rice in from all sides and gently tap it, then rotate the wooden core and pull it out, and the mouth will become a trumpet shape.
Cover it with a white cloth, add a soft round straw mat, and keep the temperature at 30 degrees. The fermented wine will be cooked in three days.
5. Pass the wine: Place two wooden sticks horizontally at the mouth of the jar, put a copper wire radish on them, pour as much wine grains into the radish, use as much raw water to pour it down several times, and transfer the wine grains with your hands. , stir, rub, and press repeatedly until the wine is exhausted and the fermented grains are dry.
Put saccharin in the wine, add osmanthus, and heat to boil.
Generally, wine is clear, but this wine is viscous. Generally, wine is spicy, but this wine is sweet.
Villagers can drink it, citizens can drink it, the elderly can drink it, children can drink it, men can drink it, and women can drink it. It strengthens the stomach, activates blood circulation, quenches thirst and moistens the lungs.
It is said that Taibai drank this wine and wrote hundreds of poems.
Therefore, when literati came to Chang'an, they drank sweet-scented osmanthus wine.
Today there is a student who wants to be a poet. Every time he goes to a hotel to drink heavily to find inspiration, but after three bowls, he becomes drunk, talks incoherently, and does not know his way back.
Types of osmanthus wine
It has a long brewing history, and there are two types of osmanthus wine: Guilin brand and Wugang brand.
Guilin brand osmanthus wine is produced by Guilin Brewery Factory. It is a sweet low-alcohol wine made from flowers and fruits.
Made from local osmanthus and mountain grapes, it is soaked, distilled, adjusted, aged and filtered. The alcohol content is 15° to 20°.
The color is light yellow, the fragrance of osmanthus is prominent, and it has the unique mellow aroma of mountain grape. It is sweet and sour, mellow and soft, and has a long-lasting fragrance.
Regular drinking can strengthen the spleen and stomach, aid digestion, promote blood circulation and replenish qi.
In 1984 and 1989, it was rated as Guangxi's high-quality wine and high-quality food respectively.
Wugang brand osmanthus wine is produced by Guilin Lingui Osmanthus Wine Factory. It is made from high-quality rice and fresh osmanthus as raw materials, and is refined using a double steaming and brewing process.
The wine is clear and translucent, with a mellow and refreshing taste. It has the characteristics of Sanhua wine and the aroma of osmanthus. It has a long aftertaste and has two alcoholic contents: 38° and 50°.
Wu Gang brings out the sweet-scented osmanthus wine
*** Comrade has a famous saying in "Die Lian Hua": "Wu Gang brings out the sweet-scented osmanthus wine."
Osmanthus wine is regarded as one of the most famous wines in the Heavenly Palace.
The author has not seen any records of osmanthus wine in books before the Qing Dynasty.
In the early Qing Dynasty, Pan Rongbi wrote the book "Records of Victory in the Years of Emperor Luo".
The book records the preparation of Osmanthus Osmanthus Wine.
Osmanthus aged wine is made in August when the osmanthus is in full bloom. The budding flowers are selected and fermented to make wine. The wine is sealed in jars for three years before it becomes a fine wine.
The raw materials are mostly rice and other grains.
At that time, it was not sold on the market. It was a high-end tonic wine specially brewed for the imperial palace by the winemakers of the Imperial Kitchen in the Qing Palace.
After liberation, experts from Beijing wineries dug into traditional brewing secrets and used a combination of traditional and modern brewing techniques to finally create Beijing Osmanthus Aged Wine.
This is a spiced wine.
It uses white wine that has been stored for many years as the wine base, and uses golden osmanthus, a famous product in Suzhou and Hangzhou, as the spice. It is carefully refined and scientifically formulated to become a sweet and rich wine.
This wine is golden in color, crystal clear, with a unique aroma of osmanthus and wine. The taste is mellow, refreshing, slightly sour and sweet, and the wine is 15 degrees.
It has been rated as "National Quality Wine" many times, and is very popular in Hong Kong, Macao, Europe, Japan and other regions and countries, and enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad.
Osmanthus wine is especially suitable for women to drink and is praised as the "happy wine for women".
There is the theory and practice of flower therapy in Chinese medicine, and osmanthus wine is a typical example.