In our minds, Moutai is a high-end wine, but is it a type of grain wine? What type of liquor is Moutai?
What type of liquor is Moutai?
1. Moutai is a Maotai-flavor liquor.
2. Moutai is produced exclusively in Moutai Town, Renhuai City, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, China. It is a specialty wine of the Han nationality. It is one of the world's three most famous distilled liquors, along with Scotch whiskey and French Cognac. It is the originator of Daqu Maotai-flavor liquor and China's national liquor. It has a history of more than 800 years.
The average annual salary of Kweichow Moutai employees is 310,000.
On December 3, the 13th "Corporate Social Responsibility Blue Book" sponsored by the China Social Responsibility Forum and the Responsibility Cloud Research Institute was released Conference and ESG China Forum 2021 Winter Summit was held in Beijing. On behalf of Moutai Group, Liu Gang, chief accountant of Moutai Group, released the "Moutai Group 2020 Social Responsibility Report" at the meeting and made a sharing speech.
Since the release of its first social responsibility report in 2009, Moutai Group has released social responsibility reports for 13 consecutive years. The first bilingual social responsibility report released by Moutai Group. The cover adopts the style of hand-drawn illustrations, with QR code images and videos embedded in many places. It extends the content of the report and systematically introduces Moutai Group in 2020 from the aspects of economic responsibility, social responsibility, environmental responsibility, etc. The company’s annual progress in social responsibility was rated five-star by the China Corporate Social Responsibility Report Rating Expert Committee.
On December 4, "Kweichow Moutai" officially released a long chart interpretation of Moutai Group's 2020 social responsibility report.
According to Moutai’s 2020 Social Responsibility Report, Kweichow Moutai Group has 42,281 employees in 2020, an increase of 1,030 from 2019, and the per capita salary of employees has increased by approximately 12.12% compared with the previous year. Moutai Group did not disclose the per capita salary level of its employees in this news.
According to Red Star News, through choice data combing, it was found that the per capita salary of Kweichow Moutai employees controlled by Moutai Group was 310,000 yuan in 2020, the highest among the 19 listed liquor companies. Luzhou Laojiao, Shuijingfang, and Gujing Gongjiu followed closely behind, with per capita salaries of 290,000 yuan, 260,000 yuan, and 250,000 yuan respectively last year.
The senior managers of Kweichow Moutai Group implement an annual salary system, which is implemented in accordance with the relevant regulations of the Guizhou Provincial State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and the company; the mid-level managers implement a quasi-annual salary system, which is based on the nature of work, responsibilities, rights, risks and other factors of different systems. Comprehensively determine the corresponding salary proportion coefficient; ordinary employees mainly implement the job performance salary system and the contract salary system, refer to the labor market salary level, and determine their salary levels based on the technical content, knowledge content, labor intensity and other factors of different series and positions.
In addition, in the report, Moutai Group mentioned that the company has formed an "eight-step craftsman" training mechanism, including furnace entry (entry training), smelting (job training), smelting (skill appraisal), tempering There are eight steps: (teacher and apprentice), refining (cultivation of key personnel), tempering (gold medal squad leader), sublimation (Moutai craftsmen), and hardening into steel (technical profession).
Is Moutai a state-owned enterprise or a central enterprise?
Moutai is a state-owned enterprise.
In 1951, the government merged three private breweries, Chengyi (Huamao), Ronghe (Wangmao), and Hengxing (Laimao) through redemption, confiscation, and takeover, to implement the three-in-one brewery. Policy—The state-owned Moutai Distillery was established.
Since September 2001, Moutai Group has applied for the "National Liquor" trademark nine times, but all were rejected. On June 12, 2019, Moutai Group announced that it would stop using the "National Liquor Moutai" before June 30. "trademark will be officially renamed "Kweichow Moutai" starting from June 29.
How to taste Moutai
1. Moutai that has been stored for 10, 20 or 30 years should be drunk step by step. Drink the Moutai that has been stored for about 5 years first to let your taste buds Adapt slowly and feel the charm of aged Moutai little by little.
2. The wine glass you choose does not need to be too big. You can choose a small wine glass with a price of 2-3 yuan, and a glass wine glass is the best. Tasting Moutai in a big cup is a huge waste! Never use disposable plastic cups or paper cups to drink liquor, as this will waste a glass of wine.
3. Don’t rush to drink when you open a bottle of aged Maotai. Use your sense of smell to feel the unique aged flavor of Maotai first. The process of smelling Maotai-flavor wine is divided into the first aroma (first smell) and the body aroma ( Smell deeply) and the fragrance of an empty cup. You can gradually feel: pleasant aromas such as sauce aroma, baking aroma, fruit aroma, plant aroma, grain aroma, mellow aroma, floral aroma, sweet aroma and koji aroma.
4. Slowly pour the wine into the decanter and let it sober for 10-20 minutes. Because the wine molecules have been sleeping in the bottle for so long, they will undergo a subtle chemical reaction (oxidation) after full contact with the air. At the same time, gently shake the decanter and appreciate the color, transparency, and viscosity of the old wine. It fills the house with fragrant charm.
5. When tasting wine, it is divided into two steps: tasting and aftertaste. First, lightly garnish the mouth, let the wine gradually cover the surface of the tongue from the tip of the tongue, and then slowly swallow, this is tasting. When swallowed, the wine is silky and mellow. Close your mouth, exhale slowly, and experience the complex aroma presented by the blend of various aromas. This is the aftertaste. In addition, Moutai has a long and sweet aftertaste with little bitterness.
6. If conditions permit, you can also blend Moutai that has been stored for more than 10 years with new wine at a ratio of 1:1. The taste will be absolutely beyond imagination. You can also adjust the old and new wine according to your personal taste. The proportion of Maotai liquor.