Yilong Yellow Rice Wine
Yilong Yellow Rice Wine is one of the famous specialties of Yilong County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province. This product boasts a rich aroma, a fragrant and refreshing taste, a mellow and sweet flavor, an attractive brownish-red color, unique character, and high nutritional value. It is suitable for all ages and can be enjoyed year-round, earning it the titles “liquid cake” and “miracle among brews.”
The Yilong Yellow Rice Wine, a specialty of Nanchong, is made from fragrant glutinous rice or regular glutinous rice sourced from the hometown of - (likely a notable figure), using spring water drawn from the Dragon Spring in Jincheng. Employing special brewing techniques for yellow rice wine, the meticulously processed glutinous rice undergoes procedures such as screening (removing weed seeds, broken grains, and impurities), rinsing the steamed rice, mixing with yeast, initial fermentation, adding spirits, secondary fermentation, pressing, coarse filtering, storage, and final fine filtering—all carried out with careful craftsmanship. dni
Yilong Yellow Rice Wine is a premium product characterized by low alcohol content (15–16 degrees) and high glucose content (24–26 percent). It has a rich aroma, a fragrant and refreshing taste, a mellow and delicious sweetness, an attractive brownish-red hue, and is highly nutritious. Rich in vitamins and seventeen types of amino acids—including seven that are essential to the human body yet cannot be synthesized internally—it ranks the highest among various brewed alcoholic beverages. In particular, lysine, which promotes human growth, is found at levels one to several times higher per milliliter than in beer or grape wine. When consumed regularly in moderation by people of all ages, it not only invigorates the circulation, strengthens the body and heart, but also helps prolong life—thus earning it the reputation of “liquid cake.” Aside from being a beverage, it can also serve as a seasoning or deodorizer in cooking, as well as a raw material and medicinal guide in traditional Chinese medicine preparation. dni
Yilong Yellow Rice Wine comes in sweet varieties such as glutinous rice aged wine, sealed jar wine, eucommia-glutinous rice wine, gastrodia-glutinous rice wine, angelica-glutinous rice wine, and orange-glutinous rice wine. Its annual production can reach 2,500 tons, and it has won awards including the Sichuan Light Industry System Travel Souvenir Award, Second Prize in the Second National Excellent Tourism Products Competition, and Second Prize for Quality in the First China Yellow Rice Wine Festival Famous & Quality Yellow Rice Wine Evaluation. dni
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