🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦I'm starting to stock up for #SpringFestival (#ChineseNewYear). This #Chinese liquor (白酒 or #baijiu) is 泸香 or #Luxiang style (a.k.a. 浓香 or #Nongxiang), the former being a reference to its origins in 泸州 or #Luzhou and the latter meaning "strong aroma".
This particular bottle is 52% and aged in the 1-3 year category. (It's not the highest grade by far; at the price this is no surprise: I paid the equivalent of about US$6 for it.)
Luxiang baijiu is very different from the types of baijiu most westerners know of, which is the kind made famous by the eponymous Maotai (archaically transcribed Moutai). The former is stronger and sweeter, tasting, as one friend put it once, "like what diesel would taste like if diesel actually tasted good". (Maotai, by contrast, tastes like what diesel would taste like if diesel tasted good and someone added soy sauce.)
This particular bottle is 52% and aged in the 1-3 year category. (It's not the highest grade by far; at the price this is no surprise: I paid the equivalent of about US$6 for it.)
Luxiang baijiu is very different from the types of baijiu most westerners know of, which is the kind made famous by the eponymous Maotai (archaically transcribed Moutai). The former is stronger and sweeter, tasting, as one friend put it once, "like what diesel would taste like if diesel actually tasted good". (Maotai, by contrast, tastes like what diesel would taste like if diesel tasted good and someone added soy sauce.)
