What are the types of yellow wine in Shaoxing?

There are many varieties of Shaoxing yellow wine, the famous ones are Yuan Hong wine, Jiayi wine, Hua Diao wine, Shan Brewing wine and Xiangxue wine.

1. Yuan red wine

Red wine is also known as Scholar red. The degree of alcohol is more than 15 degrees, and the sugar and acid components are low.

2. Kahan Wine

Kahan Wine has 18 degrees of alcohol and 2 degrees of sugar, higher than Yuan Hong Wine. It is a semi-dry wine, like the semi-dry type of wine. Gahan wine transparent crystal, strong aroma, it is appropriate to eat cold dishes to drink.

3. Huadiao wine ?

The Kayasu wine has been stored for many years as Huadiao wine. There is a wonderful legend about the origin of Huadiao wine. In ancient times, when their daughters were born, the parents would bury a few bottles of wine in the ground after sculpting or painting them, and then take them out when their daughters got married to entertain their guests, which is the famous Daughter Red.

4. Good Wine

With the Chen Yuan red wine that has been stored for one to three years, water is substituted into the tank with new wine and then fermented, and the resulting wine is then aged for one to three years. The wine is semi-sweet, dark yellow in color, with a thick texture, and is best suited for women and first-time drinkers, and is best served with sweet dishes or snacks.

5. Xiangxue Wine

It is a wine made from rice with wine medicine and wheat curd (known as "rice wine" in Shaoxing wine). It is fermented in a vat with a small amount of malt liquor, and then water is replaced by 50-degree dregs of dregs from the distillation of yellow liquor lees. The high sugar (about 20%) and high alcoholic strength (about 20 degrees) yellow wine produced in this way is called Xiangxue wine. Xiangxue wine is a sweet wine, fresh and sweet, unique, if you drink a small amount before and after meals, the most palatable, and help digestion.