Analysis:
Kweichow Moutai is known as the best famous wine in China. Speaking of it, it still has a "blood relationship" with Shanxi Fenjiu!
According to legend, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a businessman named Jia Fu in Fenyang, Shanxi. Jia lived in the hometown of Fenjiu, and drinking became the first hobby of his life, especially Fenjiu, which he regarded as precious as life. He has three meals a day, even when he goes out to collect bills.
One autumn, Jia Fu took his family and friends to the south to do business. When he went to Huairen County, Guizhou Province, he had finished drinking Fenjiu and had to go to a nearby hotel to drink soju.
I didn't know that this kind of soju touched my lips, and Jia Fu felt a spicy taste. It is bitter and astringent in his mouth, which is very uncomfortable. Jia Fu couldn't help sighing: "Alas, it's really disappointing. Such a good place can't produce good wine! "
Unexpectedly, this sentence was heard by the shopkeeper. He went up and said, "The tone of the guest officer is too big. How do you know there is no good wine in Huairen? "
Hearing this, Jia Fu quickly said, "I'm sorry, I offended you. Please forgive me! " ! However, this wine really ... "
"It's easy for a guest officer to taste good wine." When the shopkeeper finished, he waved his hand and saw the bartender's dozen cans of wine "blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." They were placed in front of the hall. The shopkeeper said, "Let the guests taste it. Don't say that we don't have good wine in Huairen. "
Jia Fu looked, ho! Quite a lot! I'm sorry for my slip of the tongue just now. He stood up quickly, looked at the jars first, then took a few deep breaths at the jars from far and near, then poured a bowl of wine, drank a little in his mouth, sprayed it three times and put it down.
As soon as the shopkeeper saw Jia's behavior, he knew that he was a master of wine tasting. Why? Here's a trick. Jia Fu just watched two inhalations and three injections. In the language of experts, it is called "seeing color, smelling fragrance and tasting taste". Non-experts will never know the secret.
The shopkeeper gave his seat to Jia Fu and asked again and again. Jia Fu said, "These wines are not worth mentioning! Only one jar of old wine is average, but the aftertaste is too bad. "
The shopkeeper saluted at once and said, "To tell you the truth, this aged wine has been in the cellar for more than twenty years. Besides, this store really doesn't have good wine. "
Jia Fu said: "The water here is beautiful, the river is clear, and it is reasonable to brew good wine." The shopkeeper said, "So I'm asking the guest officer for advice!" "
Seeing his sincerity, Jia Fu readily promised, "OK, I will definitely teach you next year!" " "
Sure enough, the next autumn, Jia Fute hired a famous teacher to brew Fenjiu in Xinghua Village, Shanxi Province, and came to Huairen County, Guizhou Province again with wine medicine and tools. He followed the famous teacher to inspect the terrain and chose a Caofang Village (later changed to Maotai Town) surrounded by fragrant grass as the construction site.
Jia Fu and famous teachers, according to the brewing method of Fenjiu, after eight steaming and eight boiling, brewed liquor is particularly pure, fragrant, pure and sweet, comparable to non-local liquor. This is the "Shanxi Fenjiu" brewed by Maotai, which was called "Huamao Liquor" at that time. Because ancient "Hua" and "Hua" are interlinked, "Hua Mao" means "Hua Mao", which means "Xinghua Maotai".
This is the earliest Maotai Distillery in China.