What's the difference between old wine and yellow wine?

Old wine is made from grain as the main raw material, Daqu, Xiaoqu or bran koji and yeast as saccharifying and fermenting agents, and through cooking, saccharification, fermentation and distillation.

Yellow rice wine is made of rice, millet, black rice, corn and wheat. Cooking, mixing with wheat koji, rice koji or medicinal liquor, saccharifying and fermenting.

2. The meaning of coverage is different.

Old wine is a general term for wines that have been stored for a long time, referring to all aged wines.

The quality of yellow rice wine yeast koji determines the quality of wine. Originated in China, it is only found in China, and it is called the three ancient wines in the world together with beer and wine.

3. Different kinds

Old wines include white wine, red wine, yellow wine, wine, liqueur, whisky, brandy, gin, vodka and so on.

There are many kinds of yellow rice wine, but in modern times it is divided by the sugar content in yellow rice wine. The most common is to name the wine according to its place of origin. Such as Daizhou yellow wine, Shaoxing wine, Jinhua wine, Danyang wine, Jiujiang sealed wine, Shandong lanling wine, Henan double yellow wine and so on.

Extended data

Storage of yellow rice wine;

1, yellow rice wine should be stored in underground wine warehouse.

2. The optimum temperature of yellow rice wine is cool environment, with little temperature change, generally below 20 degrees and relative humidity between 60% and 70%. The storage temperature of yellow rice wine is not as low as possible, but below MINUS 5 degrees, which will freeze, deteriorate, freeze and break the jar. Therefore, yellow rice wine is not easy to be stored in the open air.

3. Yellow rice wine should be piled up smoothly. The stacking height of jars and wine boxes is generally no more than 4 floors, and the jars are poured once a year in summer.

4. Yellow rice wine should not be stored in the same warehouse with other odorous articles or drinks.

5, the storage of yellow rice wine is not easy to shake frequently, and there can be no strong light irradiation.

6. Don't use metal utensils to store yellow wine.

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