Where is the best vinegar in China

1, Shanxi Old Chen Vinegar

Old Chen Vinegar is produced in Qingxu County, which has a history and culture of vinegar for thousands of years. The color of old Chen vinegar is reddish brown, amber or reddish brown with luster, and the taste is mainly "sheer, sour, sweet and fragrant", which is the first of the four famous vinegars in China, and has the reputation of "the first vinegar in the world". It has a history of more than 3,000 years and is famous in the world for the five characteristics of color, aroma, mellow, richness and sourness.

2, Zhenjiang vinegar

Zhenjiang vinegar is also called Zhenjiang fragrant vinegar. The word "fragrant" indicates that Zhenjiang vinegar has a unique aroma compared with other kinds of vinegar. Zhenjiang vinegar belongs to black vinegar/wu vinegar. Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar, created in 1840, is a famous specialty of Jiangsu province, famous both at home and abroad, and began to export in small quantities in 1909. Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar has won the gold medal prize, excellent prize, first prize and so on for 5 times respectively in China, and was awarded the national silver prize in 1980.

Zhenjiang vinegar is one of the four famous vinegars with the characteristics of "sour but not astringent, fragrant and slightly sweet, colorful and fresh, the more it is stored, the more it is mellow".

3. Baoning Vinegar

Baoning Vinegar is the traditional famous product of Langzhong, Sichuan. Among the four famous vinegars, Baoning vinegar is the only medicinal vinegar, known as "Oriental Magic Vinegar", which won the gold medal in 1915 in "Panama Pacific Universal Exposition" together with Moutai, the national wine, and thus laid down its position among the four famous vinegars in China. Relying on one of the four famous vinegars of China, Baoning Vinegar, the ancient city of Langzhong has actively organized the First China Famous Vinegar Festival, and the domestic vinegar represented by the four famous vinegars of China is well known. At the end of Ming and early Qing Dynasty, it was listed as one of the "Four Famous Vinegars" in the Qing Dynasty, together with Zhenjiang balsamic vinegar, Shanxi old vinegar and Fujian Yongchun old vinegar.

4. Yongchun Old Vinegar

Yongchun Old Vinegar chooses high-quality glutinous rice, red currant, sesame and sugar as raw materials, and is carefully brewed according to a certain formula, and its brewing technology is unique. The vinegar is brownish-black in color, strongly acidic and not astringent, acidic and slightly sweet, mellow and refreshing, with a tasty aftertaste and does not decay after a long time of hiding. The quality of Yongchun old vinegar is excellent. Yongchun old vinegar does not need extra salt and preservatives, and contains many kinds of amino acids and other nutrients as well as many kinds of fermentation microorganisms that are beneficial to human body, which is the difference with other vinegars.