Rice flavor type is one of the four basic aroma types of liquor, which together with sauce, aroma and fragrance are the four basic aroma types of liquor, which is characterized by the use of small koji, the early stage of rice solid culture saccharification, and then add water for semi-solid fermentation and distillation of liquor. Compared with the other three major aromatic liquors, rice-flavored liquor is the most mysterious, after all, this aromatic liquor is not popular. Guilin Sanhua wine is the representative of rice-flavored liquor, today I chose to sanhua cave for 15 years to taste, feel the quality characteristics of this wine.
Sanhua wine produced in Guilin City, Guangxi Province, the predecessor of the distillery is "An Taiyuan" bad fang, in 1952, Guilin Monopoly Office of the private workshop to transform, the establishment of the "Guilin Distillery", in 1958 "Guilin Brewery" renamed "Guilin Beverage Factory", in 1987 changed to "Guilin Distillery", in 1994 the company was restructured, the establishment of "Guilin Sanhua Co., Ltd."
Sanhua liquor is a representative of rice-flavored liquor, in the early days, Sanhua liquor was said to be a herbal herb, and now Sanhua liquor only uses a Chinese herbal medicine into the koji, Guilin's specialty spicy indigo. Speaking of Sanhua sake, Dongzang 15 Years Old Wine is a standard rice-flavored liquor, and my wine is 20180226 batch of liquor, which is a new liquor.
Pour wine to smell, this wine is a compound aroma of nectar, rice, mint, the overall aroma is fresh, there is honey sweetness, and the aroma of rice wine is more similar, compared to other aromatic liquors, the aroma of this wine is slightly thin, not full enough. Tasting at the entrance, this wine is pure and sweet in the mouth, the wine is in the middle, the taste has a cold and sharp feeling, after swallowing, a warm current in the esophagus rises. The tail end of this wine is clean, the mouth is clean, and there is no sense of sweetness, compared with the feeling of sweetness of strong wine and Koji sake. Overall, the taste of this wine has a cool feeling, because it is high, so the middle and back section is a bit cold, so it feels a bit like drinking mint pepper water.
Overall, this wine shows the characteristics of rice-flavored liquor very well: there is a clear nectar aroma, the wine body is ice-sweet, there is a sense of sharpness, the tail section is clean, and there is no mud and water. For rice wine, its brewing process is simpler than sauce, aroma and clear wine, after all, it uses a small koji, semi-solid fermentation process, which has higher efficiency and lower cost, so the current rice-flavored liquor is mostly low-end liquor. This time of tasting, let me feel that rice-flavored liquor should drink low, in fact, in guangxi, many regions of Guangdong, compared to highly high-degree rice wine, low-degree rice wine is more popular, after all, the wine is soft, the irritation is small, and the wine aroma is not rich and rich enough, so it is more pleasant to drink in large mouths. For Sanhua 15 years of cave hiding, is a good high-end high-grade rice wine, which shows the style characteristics of rice-flavored liquor very well, for wine lovers who are interested in rice or want to solve the problem of rice, you can choose to try this wine.