Why is Huangjiu the nostalgic wine?

Nostalgia is a bowl of mellow Shaoxing Huangjiu.

Shaoxing is a picturesque water town, a charming bridge town, and a world-famous wine town. The nostalgia of the water town is a jar of aged Shaoxing Huangjiu. No matter where you are, the familiar and everlasting taste of hometown is always in your mind. It's like a taste positioning system which connects you and the hometown.

Shaoxing Huangjiu has become an indispensable part of nostalgia because of its long history and culture, and the emotional memory of Shaoxing people for its unique flavor.

According to archaeological materials, Shaoxing Huangjiu has a history of 6000 to 10000 years. The rice and pottery unearthed in the Hemudu site which is located in Yuyao, indicate that Shaoxing people begun to brew the Rice Wine or grain wine more than 7000 years ago. Since ancient times, there have been wineries everywhere in Shaoxing. And in ancient times, everyone made friends with wine, regardless of their subjective wishes and status. Wine has become an important part of production activities and life.

Huangjiu is the blood of Shaoxing people, and nostalgia is the soul of Shaoxing people. Drink Huangjiu and shed tears of homesickness. It is the flavor of nostalgia! No wonder Mr. Wang Boquan said with emotion, [Huadiao, Huadiao, Huadiao! What an elegant name! It is a kind of good wine from my hometown. Let me enjoy it. Huadiao, Huadiao, Huadiao! What an artistic name! It is a kind of good wine from my hometown. Let me enjoy it again."

Shaoxing people often say, "Shaoxing people can live without rice, but they cannot live without Shaoxing Huangjiu!" As Sichuan people like spicy food, northern people like cooked wheaten food, and southern people like rice, drinking aged Huangjiu is a habit of Shaoxing people. Wen Yi, a gourmet, once said, "Even if you have tasted all the delicacies in the world, the one you love most, the one you miss most, and the one you will cry for one day, must be the taste memory of your childhood." Everyone in Shaoxing has a picture in his mind: when he was a child, his father used a bamboo wine spoon to put Huangjiu into a tin wine pot, and then poured Huangjiu into a wine bowl with the capacity of half a Jin (250 g) until it was almost full. Then he lowered his head, enjoyed it slowly with a satisfied expression, and make a sound of "ah---" comfortably.

Shaoxing Huangjiu is the taste of Yangtze river delta in the dream of people far away from home, and it also cultivates the soft, tenacious, low-key and devoted Shaoxing spirit.