Yellow wine origin is wider, there are many varieties, the famous Shaoxing rice wine, Fujian old wine, Jiangxi Jiujiang seal cylinder wine, Jiangsu Danyang seal cylinder wine, Wuxi Huizuan wine, Guangdong pearl red wine, Shandong Jimo old wine, Lanling wine, Qin Yang black rice wine, Shanghai old wine, Dalian yellow wine and so on. Recognized by the Chinese winemaking industry, the most popular in the international and domestic markets, representing the total characteristics of Chinese yellow wine, the first Shaoxing wine.
Shaoxing yellow wine has a long history, from the Spring and Autumn period of the "Lu Shi Chun Qiu" records, historical documents, Shaoxing wine's name has repeatedly appeared. Especially in the Qing Dynasty dietary masterpieces "Tune Ding set" on the historical evolution of Shaoxing wine, varieties and fine qualities of a more comprehensive exposition of the Shaoxing wine at that time has been popular throughout the country, in the liquor category is unique.
Shaoxing wine is famous at home and abroad, mainly because of its excellent quality. Yuan Mei of the Qing Dynasty, "with the garden food list" in praise: "Shaoxing wine such as the clean officials and officials, do not participate in a false, and the flavor of the real and such as the celebrities Jieying, long stay on earth, read all the world and the quality of the thicker". Tune Ding set" in the Shaoxing wine compared with other local wine that: "like the world of wine, there are a lot of gray, drinking is thirsty, and Shaoxing wine alone; the world of wine is mostly sweet, drinking is full of people in the body boredom, and the Shaoxing wine of the nature of the aromatic mellow and strong, go and do not keep, so those who are addicted to it for the top grade, not a private assessment. And the quality of shaoxing wine made "taste sweet, color clear, gas aroma, power mellow top quality only Chen Shaoxing wine for the first" generalization. This shows that the Shaoxing wine color, flavor and style of the four aspects of the wine has been a leader in the wine.