"Double steaming" originated from beautiful mistakes

Jiuqu is the key to turning rice and beans into wine. After that, it has undergone two distillations, simmering and soaking of stale meat, and aging in pottery jars....... These production details in the same line can not help but remind us of the ancestors who first used this skillful technique. Time can be traced back hundreds of years, when the people living on the side of the Xijiang River have mastered the basic winemaking skills, relying solely on the manual cooperation of the boss and a few buddies to build the production line of rice wine. However, the rice wine at that time was only distilled once and the degree was low, and it was not easy to get drunk even after drinking it in a large bowl.

According to the currently known records, in these small family-style wine shops, there is a "Youlongxing" jointly run by a husband and wife. Once the wife wanted to pour the steamed wine into the wine vat for aging, but she was not strong enough. Carefully pour the Zhaijiu into the fermented rice to be distilled. In order not to waste the raw materials, the couple put all the fermented rice poured into the Zhaijiu into the distiller for distillation. The origin of double steaming is precisely related to this beautiful "mistake". After the second distillation, the couple tasted it again, and they were pleasantly surprised to find that the concentrated wine was more mellow and attractive. After the introduction of double steamed wine, it was sought after by wine lovers, and spread to all over the world in the footsteps of merchants. "Youlongxing" has gradually grown from a small family workshop with double steamed wine.

Due to the unique geographical environment of Jiujiang, more and more people in Jiujiang make wine. Jiujiang Town was already a famous wine country in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, there was a boom in "there were wine shops in alleys and streets, and hotels in the streets, and everyone talked about wine." scene.

Famous overseas

"Where there are Chinese, there is Jiujiang Double Steamed Liquor" is not just a slogan! Until today, the export volume of Jiujiang Double Steamed Liquor still ranks among the top in the country. As early as the early 1980s, the export volume had reached 4,000 tons, and the products were sold to Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asia, as well as the United States, Britain, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Germany and other countries; Hong Kong director Pan Bingquan directed the film "Cross Song" in 1952. ", one sentence: Jiujiang double steaming is definitely a major tragedy in the world. Overseas, Jiujiang double steamed wine is called "hometown water, hometown wine".

Long history

In China's long-standing liquor culture, Cantonese wine has a place, and the benchmark of Cantonese wine culture is Guangdong Nanhai Jiujiang Double Steamed Wine. The poet Zeng Daoshu in the Qing Dynasty wrote the ancient sayings of "Changing the poles and cloth and netting, celebrating the double steaming and drunk the moonlight" after drinking; Kang Youwei's master Jiujiang Confucian scholar Zhu Jiujiang loves hometown wine even more and praises " I am pleased with the Rulin and Chen Jiajiu, and help the guests of my cottage style"; the love of the literati and the guest for the Jiujiang Shuangzhu is beyond words.