Yellow rice wine in Shaoxing (Photo/Yuan Yun)

You can not miss the yellow rice wine when coming to Shaoxing, whose winemaking history can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period in ancient China. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Shaoxing's wine industry flourished and appeared the scenario of "thousands of wine shops in the city". 

By adopting traditional and unique techniques with the decent water of Jianhu Lake, premium white glutinous rice, and excellent yellow-skinned wheat as raw materials, Shaoxing yellow rice wine is honored as the champion of Chinese yellow rice wine for it features amber in color, mellow, and sweet in flavor, and can be used as a beverage, medicine, and seasoning. 

Photo/Yuan Yun

Shaoxing yellow rice wine presents various kinds, namely: Yuanhong, Jiafan, Shanniang, Xiangxue, Huadiao and etc. Among them, Jiafan Wine and Huadiao Wine have been used at state banquets and won several international gold medals.

Winemaking process (Photo/Yuan Yun) 

Translator: Huang Yan 

Editor: Huang Yan