It is one of the three largest brewed wines in the world: yellow wine, wine and beer. It is a grain wine brewed with rice as raw material. Unlike white wine, yellow rice wine has not been distilled, and its alcohol content is less than 20%. Yellow rice wine brewed with different kinds of grain has different colors, such as beige, brown or reddish brown. Yellow rice wine is a specialty of Han nationality in China, which belongs to brewing. Brewing technology is unique and has become a typical representative and model of oriental brewing industry.

Yellow rice wine originated in China, only in China. It is known as the three ancient wines in the world together with beer and wine. About 3000 years ago, in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, China people invented the double fermentation method of distiller's yeast and began to brew a large number of yellow rice wine. There are many varieties of yellow rice wine, including Fangxian yellow rice wine, Shaoxing wine, Longyan Shen wine, Jiujiang Feng wine, Fujian wine, Wuxi Huiquan wine, Jiangyin Heidu wine, Shaoxing Zhuangyuanhong, Nverhong, Anhui Gu Nanfeng, Anhui Feng Xuan yellow rice wine, Zhangjiagang Shazhou Huang You, Wujiang Wugong wine and so on.

Yellow rice wine varieties

After thousands of years of development, the varieties of yellow rice wine are dazzling. The name of wine is more colorful. The most common is to name the wine according to its place of origin. Such as Fangxian yellow rice wine, Daizhou yellow rice wine, Shaoxing wine, Jinhua wine, Danyang wine, Jiujiang Fenggang wine, Shandong lanling wine, Henan double yellow rice wine and so on. This division was common in ancient times.

There is also a classification based on the representative of a certain type of wine, such as "yellow wine", which is often semi-dry yellow wine; "Huadiao wine" refers to semi-dry wine; "wine sealing" refers to sweet or thick sweet yellow rice wine; "Good brewing" refers to semi-sweet wine. Others are based on the appearance of wine, such as sake, turbid wine, white wine, yellow wine and red wine; Then according to the raw materials of wine, such as glutinous rice wine, black rice wine, corn rice wine, millet wine, highland barley wine and so on.

There are also some wine names, which are called according to the customs of wine, such as "Shuijiu" in Jiangxi, "Thick Liquor" in Shaanxi and "Old Liquor" in Jiangnan. In addition to liquid wine, there are also semi-solid "fermented grains". These appellations all have a certain local color. If we want to know the type of yellow rice wine accurately, we must also rely on the classification method of modern yellow rice wine.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Yellow Rice Wine.