Changle Sweet Wine

Changle Sweet Wine

Changle Sweet Wine is a geographical indication protected product.

Changle Sweet Wine is a geographical indication certification trademark.

　　Changle Sweet Wine

　　Changle has been a thriving market town since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, with a thousand years of merchant activity. Bounded by Zhifeng Mountain to the east and the Miluo River to the south, it is a place rich in talented people and spiritual energy. “Changle Sweet Wine” is a unique marvel nurtured on this magical soil.

　　Legend says that when Emperor Qianlong toured the south, he passed through Changle. Drawn by the sweet aroma, he sampled the wine — it was so delicious it made his mouth water and filled him with sweetness. He bestowed the name “Changle Sweet Wine,” giving the drink its fame and making it celebrated throughout the Jiangnan region. This beautiful legend adds an air of mystery to Changle Sweet Wine, but its delightful sweetness is the result of three essential brewing conditions:

　　First, the wine starter from Changle.

　　Second, the “Three-Grain-Inch” glutinous rice.

　　Third, clear well water.

　　The finely brewed sweet wine thus produced boasts a rich fragrance, and offers benefits such as relaxing muscles, invigorating qi, refreshing the mind, promoting lactation, and relieving rheumatism.

　　Changle Sweet Wine ---- (Glutinous Rice Sweet Wine)

　　The main ingredient of Changle Sweet Wine is glutinous rice,

　　which is why it is also commonly called

　　Glutinous Rice Sweet Wine.

　　Features

　　It is nutritionally rich, cool and transparent in appearance, sweet and mellow in taste, fragrant, uniquely flavorful, suitable for all ages, and contains nutrients such as polysaccharides, minerals, organic acids, amino acids, and B vitamins.

　　Thanks to Changle’s favorable climate, fertile soil, skilled farming methods, long and plump rice ears yielding high production, and excellent rice quality, it can also be considered a specialty of Changle.

　　Serving Methods

　　1. Glutinous Rice Sweet Wine tastes as sweet as honey and has a rich wine aroma. During busy farming seasons, every household brews it. After laboring, a bowl or two mixed with cool well water refreshes the body, banishes fatigue, and revitalizes the spirit.

　　2. Glutinous Rice Sweet Wine is highly nutritious and a must-drink tonic for rural women during their postpartum confinement period. It helps replenish strength and promotes rich, sweet breast milk.

　　. If sealed in a jar or buried in a compost pile to ferment over a long period, then taken out to eat, the wine becomes sticky and thread-like, sweeter than honey,

　　with an exceptionally rich aroma,

　　making it extremely delicious. Even those not used to alcohol may unknowingly get tipsy. It is a treasured rural specialty.

　　Changle Sweet Wine

　　The administrative area of Changle Town, Miluo City, Hunan Province, covering 15 villages: Changxin, Maqiao, Chimǎ, Zhiyuan, Qingshi, Yousheng, Changnan, Aikou, Shuiyuan, Shuifu, Shuangqi, Shuihe, Baisha, Jiangbei, and Guanglian, as well as two neighborhood committees: Eryuesi and Huilongmen.

　　“Miluo Municipal People’s Government Request on Delimiting the Geographical Scope of Changle Sweet Wine as a Geographical Indication Product,” Miluo Government Document [2015] No. 87

　　Enterprise Standard of Changle Sweet Wine Production and Sales Cooperative in Miluo City: Q/YMCL0003S-2015 “Changle Sweet Wine”