What are the characteristics of Xifeng wine?

The characteristics of Xifeng Liquor are: the liquor is colorless, clear and transparent, fragrant, sweet and meticulous, sweet, mellow and full-bodied in the mouth, with fruity aroma and a long, clean finish, which is loved by those who like to drink strong liquors.

Xifeng Liquor is a typical representative of China's "phoenix aroma" liquor, which is known for its unique style of "mellow aroma and elegance, sweetness and freshness, harmonization of flavors, and long clean finish" and "no headache, no dryness in the throat, and pleasant aftertaste". The unique style of "no headache, no dry throat, pleasant aftertaste" is praised by the world. It combines the advantages of both clear and strong aroma into one, with consistent aroma and flavor, head and tail and tone, belonging to the composite aroma type of Daqu Baijiu.

Fengxiang type liquor is colorless and transparent, no suspension, no precipitation, honey fragrance, with ethyl acetate as the main body, a certain amount of ethyl acetate as a complementary composite aroma, mellow and plump, sweet and refreshing, the end of the net long. Grain as raw material, through solid-state fermentation, distillation, storage, blending and become, phoenix aroma type liquor is ethyl acetate-based, has been acid ethyl ester as a supplement to the compound aroma of distilled spirits. Its process is characterized by the new cellar mud fermentation, fermentation period is short (generally 14 days), the sea of wine storage: "sea of wine" is a large wicker woven blood paper wine basket, used to store wine, storage 3 years after blending factory.

Expanded Information

Xifeng wine is produced in Fengxiang County, Shaanxi Province. Fengxiang, known as Yong in ancient times, is the birthplace of Yanhuang and Zhou-Qin cultures and a famous wine town in China, with rich cultural deposits. This area unearthed 6,000 years ago, the wine officially opened the curtain of the history of Chinese wine culture, Yangshao culture site has more than 20, Longshan culture site more, the excavation of the tomb of the Qin Gong sensational world, Yong City, the site and Su Dongpo served in Fenxiang when the construction of the East Lake Garden and other attractions are well known at home and abroad.

According to the inscriptions of the Yin and Shang Dynasties and the early Western Zhou Dynasty, the "Qin Wine" produced here 3,000 years ago (i.e., today's Xifeng Wine, named after Yongcheng, the land of the Qin Dynasty) became the imperial wine of the royal family. The story of Duke Mu of Qin giving wine to the horse thief "Wild Man" to cure his poison, and the story of Duke Mu of Qin "throwing wine into the river to labor his troops" after winning the battle of Han Yuan between Qin and Jin, as recorded in the "Wine Records", happened here. Since ancient times, this area has been rich in wine, only the wine produced by the town of Liulin is the best. Nowadays, the folk tale of "Donghu Willow, Xifeng Wine, and Women's Hands" still circulates.

During the reign of Tang Zhenguan, Xifeng wine had the reputation of "opening the altar of fragrance for ten miles, next door to the drunkenness of the three families''. In the Ming Dynasty, Fengxiang was a city of "burnt workshops, full of fragrance", and the brewing industry was greatly invigorated, and people crossing the border would often "know the taste of the stop, smell the fragrance of the horse" to taste Xifeng wine as a happy thing. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Xifeng wine was exported overseas. In the fourth year of the Republic of China (1915), Xifeng wine won the gold medal at the Panama Games and became famous on all continents.

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