Wuling Liquor

Wuling Liquor

　　Wuling Liquor, one of China’s top liquors, one of the three most renowned Jiangxiang (sauce-aroma) liquors, a well-known Chinese trademark brand, and the only national premium liquor from Hunan Province – Wuling Liquor. With its uniquely elegant Jiangxiang aroma, Wuling Liquor was honored as one of China’s national premium liquors at the Fifth National Liquor Appraisal Conference in 1989, alongside Maotai and Luzhou Laojiao, and received the National Quality Gold Award.

　　Place of origin: Changde

　　Origin of name: Named after an ancient place name.

　　Type: A Jiangxiang (sauce-aroma) style Baijiu (Chinese liquor).

　　Production process: Wuling Liquor uses sorghum as the raw material and high-temperature wheat Qu (fermentation starter) as the saccharification and fermentation agent. It inherits traditional techniques including clear steaming, double feeding, high-temperature stacking, seven distillations and six drawings, and is produced through storage and blending.

　　Characteristics: It features a slightly yellow transparent appearance, prominent Jiangxiang aroma, mellow and full-bodied taste, long-lasting aftertaste, and a lingering fragrance in the empty cup.

　　Awards: Rated as a National Premium Liquor at the Fifth National Liquor Appraisal Conference in China.

　　Changde was historically known as “Wuling,” and the history of liquor-making by the people of Wuling goes back a long way. As early as the pre-Qin period, there was a custom of “drinking spring wine on the first day of the first lunar month.” During the Five Dynasties period, the wine produced by the Cui family tavern was famous, with a poem stating: “The wine of the Cui family in Wuling City is unmatched, as if it belongs not to earth but heaven.” In the Song Dynasty, the region also produced “Baiyuquan” wine and became known for “Wuling Taoyuan Liquor.”

　　Hunan Wuling Liquor Co., Ltd. is located in the scenic Deshan area of Changde, with a total factory floor area of 46,000 square meters. The company currently has over 600 employees and more than 80 professionals, including national-level tasting experts, provincial-level tasting experts, and senior brewers. After more than half a century of development, it has become a large-scale liquor production enterprise integrating product serialization, packaging serialization, and standardized production. It has established a multi-brand strategic development plan of “one core with two wings,” with main products including the Jiangxiang-style Wuling Liquor – Wuling Shangjiang, Wuling Zhongjiang, and Wuling Shaojiang; the strong-aroma Wuling Dongting 0 Series; and the mixed-aroma Wuling Furong Guose Series, covering the three major categories of Jiangxiang, strong-aroma, and mixed-aroma.

　　Wuling Liquor uses glutinous red sorghum grown in southern Sichuan as the raw material, employs high-temperature wheat Qu made from wheat, and ferments in stone-wall mud pit bottoms. With a one-year production cycle, the process involves two feedings per year, nine steaming cycles, eight fermentations, and seven distillations. It follows the production essence of “four highs and two longs,” using solid-state fermentation and solid-state distillation methods. The produced base liquor is stored separately (for over three years) according to three typical aromas—Jiangxiang, mellow sweet aroma, and pit bottom aroma—and different distillation rounds, then carefully blended.

　　Wuling Liquor has a slightly yellow liquor color, with a prominent, elegant, and delicate Jiangxiang aroma. Its taste is mellow and brisk, with a clean aftertaste and a long-lasting finish. The empty cup retains the fragrance for a long time.

　　The production area of Wuling Liquor covers four administrative regions under the current jurisdiction of Deshan Subdistrict Office, Deshan Town, Shimenqiao Town, and Deshan Forest Farm in the Changde Economic and Technological Development Zone, Changde City, Hunan Province.