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What is Shaoxing wine?
Shaoxing yellow wine, Shaoxing old wine. Shaoxing wine is a specialty of Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, and a symbolic product of chinese national geography.

Shaoxing wine, also known as Shaoxing yellow rice wine and Shaoxing old wine, is getting stronger and stronger with the passage of time, so Shaoxing wine is called old wine, and the older it is, the more fragrant it becomes.

Shaoxing wine is a famous specialty of Shaoxing, and its production history is very long. According to documents, Shaoxing wine-making was very common in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. "Lv Chunqiu" contains Gou Jian, the King of Yue? Saccharifying workers? The story is still in town? Toulao River? Ruins. By the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Shaoxing old wine had become a tribute. Among the numerous liquors in China, Shaoxing Old Liquor is one of the most award-winning varieties.