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Where is Maotai in Guizhou

Moutai originates from Zunyi City, Guizhou.

Moutai is one of China's famous liquors, and its place of origin is Moutai Town, Renhuai City, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. Moutai Town is located on the banks of the Chishui River, which is the main choke point of Sichuan-Guizhou land and water transportation, and has been characterized by the saying "Sichuan salt goes to Guizhou, and Qin merchants gather in Moutai" since ancient times. Moutai Town is the birthplace of China's saucy liquor, and is also China's famous hometown of wine culture.

Moutai liquor is made from high-quality sorghum, high-temperature quartz made from wheat, and traditional craftsmanship, through multiple fermentation, distillation, wine extraction, storage, blending and other processes. Moutai wine has a unique saucy style, mellow body, long aftertaste, and long-lasting fragrance in empty glass, etc. It is known as the "national wine".

Product Characteristics

Moutai Wine is the originator of the Chinese large-quart soy sauce aroma wine, which has the characteristics of clear and transparent color, prominent soy sauce aroma, rich mellow aroma, elegant and delicate, soft and silky in the mouth, refreshing and sweet, mellow and full-bodied, long aftertaste, and long lasting aroma on empty glass, and the unique fragrance of Moutai Wine is called "Mou Xiang". "It is a typical example of the Chinese soy sauce style.

The pure and transparent, mellow and lush characteristics of Moutai Liquor are the result of the fusion of three special flavors: soy sauce, cellar floor aroma, and mellow and sweet, and it is now known that there are more than 300 aroma components. There are so many aroma components in Moutai wine that it has been praised as "three drunken families next door to the flavor, and ten miles of aroma after opening the bottle after the rain". Moutai wine is fragrant but not colorful, never adding half a bit of spice in the brewing process, and the aroma components are all naturally formed in the process of repeated fermentation. Its alcoholic strength has been stabilized between 52°-54°.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Moutai Wine