Spirits, also known as distilled spirits. The six major distilled spirits recognized worldwide are brandy, whiskey, vodka, rum, gin and Chinese liquor. The brewing raw materials of distilled spirits are distilled and purified and concentrated alcohol, and their main characteristics are high alcohol content, generally more than 40%, so they are also called spirits.
Baijiu is a spirit unique to Chinese and is also one of the most complex distilled liquors in the world. Liquor has existed for more than a thousand years and still appears on every important occasion in Chinese. Whether rich or poor, baijiu is always Chinese inseparable role on the wine table. For a long time, liquor has always been "unsatisfactory" in foreign countries, and foreign liquor is popular in China. Now, Chinese "this breath" has finally come out!
Recently, brand finance, the world's authoritative brand value assessment agency, released the "2021 World's Most Valuable 50 Spirits Brands" list, the most eye-catching of which is that the top 5 of the top ten are all occupied by Chinese liquor brands, namely Maotai, Wuliangye, Yanghe, Luzhou Laojiao, Gujing Tribute Wine!
These five liquor brands also happen to be five of the eight famous liquors in China. This is enough to know that the current brand value of Chinese liquor is so high that Chinese liquor has counterattacked!
In contrast, the sixth place is the American whisky brand Jack Daniel's. Born in 1866 in Fort Linzhi, Tennessee, Jack Danny Distillery was the first registered distillery in the United States. As a world-renowned liquor brand, Jack Danny has reached the first sales volume in the United States and the fourth in the world, and has been the top whisky sales champion in the world and the United States for many years.
Jack Danny Distillery is located in the Tennessee Valley, rich in fine rice, rye and barley malt. Jack Daniel's whisky is different in that after refining the whisky, it is filtered on top of 10 feet of charcoal fired from sugar maple wood, and the charcoal-alcoholized whiskey is stored and aged in carbonized white oak barrels in the wine cellar. It was this last process that led jack daniel's whiskey to earn the name "Tennessee whiskey."
Seventh place was Hennessy. As we all know, Hennessy is a famous French wine and brandy brand. Founded in 1765 by Richard Hennessy, Hennessy Cognac is one of the top three cognac brands in the world. Hennessy is one of the world's finest cognacs, selling around 50 million bottles a year, and Jas Hennessy & Co is the world's largest producer of cognacs.
Eighth place is Russia's Smirnoff. Vodka is the national wine of Russia, and Smirnoff is the world's largest vodka brand. The Smino Vodka brand originated in Russia in 1818 and for many years became the only vodka in the court of the Russian Empire, and later Sweden and Spain also regarded Smino vodka as royal vodka. Smino vodka is basically a mixture of pure grain alcohol and charcoal filtered water, which does not require aging.
In ninth place is Cuba's rum brand Bacardi. BACARDÍ Rum is a high-end spirited liquor founded by the Bacardi Company in 1862, the main ingredients are: yeast, purified water, sugarcane molasses and so on. BACARDÍ Rum is the world's number one high-end spirits, and for nearly 160 years, Bacardi Rum has won more than 900 international awards.
The tenth place is the British Johnnie Walker, also known as John Walk, is a world-famous Scotch whisky brand founded in 1820, brewed by Diageo's brewery in Kilmarnock, England. Johnny's Plus whiskies are available in the Red, Black, Green, Gold and Blue series.
After reading the top ten spirits brands, do you prefer foreign liquor or liquor, which one do you like?