🍽️ Shaoxing Rice Wine

Mellow and sweet, a representative of Chinese rice wine.

Shaoxing rice wine is China's representative yellow wine, brewed in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Made from glutinous rice, wheat and the water of Jianhu Lake, it ferments and ages for years into a clear amber liquid with mellow aroma, sweet smoothness and a long finish. Shaoxing locals warm it before drinking, pairing it with fennel beans, wine-poached chicken and drunken shrimp in old taverns. Beyond drinking, it is the essential cooking wine that lifts braised pork and drunken crab. Woven into Shaoxing culture, from old tavern scenes to today's wine museum, it is a common brewery visit and a bottled huadiao souvenir for Jiangnan travelers.