The representative of the small koji rice aroma type is Guilin Sanhua Wine. At the national wine appraisal meeting, it won the title of high-quality wine for three consecutive years. Guilin Sanhua wine has a long history of brewing, as early as the Tang and Song Dynasties, it has been recognized by the local folk, and is known as one of the "Three Treasures of Guilin". Guilin Sanhua wine, not only high quality, mellow and refreshing, there are beautiful legends in the folk.
In Guilin's Seven Star Park, there is a mountain shaped like a wine pot, known as "Wine Kettle Mountain". According to legend, in the past, Guilin's wine pot mountain was really a wine pot, which could automatically produce wine, inexhaustible, and inexhaustible. Whoever comes to the guest, or needs to set up a banquet for wine every New Year's Festival, then fold a branch of osmanthus in front of the wine pot mountain, gently sweep towards the tail of the pot, and the wine will flow out of the pot, but only one pot at a time, young and old, no fraud, nobility and equality. In fact, such a good fairy wine, a pot is enough, contentment and happiness, fine water and long flow, this is a beautiful thing.
Later, a greedy county official felt that a pot of wine was too little, so he sent someone to chisel the spout of the pot a little bigger, and this chisel, the wine pot mountain will never produce wine again. The drunken county official, self-defeating and helpless, had no choice but to find another source of wine, and he ordered the winemakers in Guilin to brew the same taste, mellow and delicious immortal wine as the wine in the wine pot mountain within a month, otherwise they would be killed.
This was a bad thing for the winemaker, and they looked at the oldest wine master with sad brows. But the old sommelier also frowned and looked at the sky. He thought that in order to brew a fairy wine like Jiuhu Mountain, the first one must have a kind of sake koji, where to find it? The old wine master finally fell ill, and his little daughter Sanhua Girl was very anxious, so he steamed a carp and burned a bowl of egg flower soup to persuade his father to eat it, but the old wine master had no appetite at all.
At this time, there was a man and a woman outside the door, two old people named Hanako knocking on the door to beg for food, the man was a cripple, and the woman was blind. The kind-hearted Sanhua brought out his father's meal and gave it to the two old hanako to eat. Who thought that the man's named Hanako smelled the food, and actually frowned and said to the Sanhua girl, "Sister, although the food is good, how can you swallow without good wine?" So, the Sanhua girl hurriedly scooped a bowl of wine and gave it to them. The two Hanako took only one sip and said angrily, "This is also wine!" At this time, the old wine master on the sickbed heard Hanako outside so rude, and he was also on fire, got up and staggered to the door and said: "The tree has skin, people have faces, two old people, you are too faceless." When the blind woman heard this, she picked up the rice can in her hand and threw it into the room, saying, "Give you face!" The two men flew away. The rice jar was full of fermented soup, and the wine and medicine that the Sanhua girl had hung in the sieve were all wet, and she was in so much pain that she had to take the medicine to the stove to dry.
The next day, she used this liquor to help Daddy make wine, ho! The steamed wine is fragrant, and the whole village is wafting with the fragrance of wine. The old wine master smelled this wine, and immediately became ill, he scooped a cup, smacked his mouth and tasted it, it was really the smell of the fairy wine of the wine pot mountain, but unfortunately it was a little lighter. At this time, someone shouted outside the door: "Fragrant! Yummy!" It turned out to be the two old hanako. The old wine master was grateful and warmly welcomed them, who knew that after the two Hanako took a sip of wine, they wiped their mouths and said, "Too light, too light!" The old wine master also sighed and said, "Yes, otherwise, it will be comparable to the immortal wine of Jiuhu Mountain!" After the lame hanako listened, she laughed and slammed three times with her crutch and said, "The head is fragrant, the second flower is rushed, and the three steaming and three boiling are fragrant and strong." "After saying that, I limped away.
When the old wine master heard this, he suddenly realized that he had re-steamed the wine twice. Sure enough, after three steamings, the wine produced was fragrant and strong. The old wine master gently shakes a bowl of wine, and a series of hops float on the surface like pearls, which last for a long time. As a result, the wine master has also passed down the habit of shaking the wine to determine the degree of wine.
Since then, Guilin liquor workers have finally formed the process of firing immortal wine, and named this wine "Sanhua Wine". Later, people learned that the two were called Hanako, the lame one was The Iron Crutch Li, and the female was He Xiangu. The two immortals favored the landscape of Guilin and sympathized with the beautiful and kind Sanhua girl, so they secretly passed on this method of brewing immortal wine.
As for why this wine is called "Sanhua Wine", there are many opinions. Some people say that it is because when the hops are shaken, the hops are stacked in three folds, so they are called "three flowers wine". Some people also say that it is called "Sanhua wine" because it was first steamed by the father and daughter of the Sanhua girl in order to commemorate them.