sagebeard

lovely, looks good. will try to try them this summer during my china visit. Acquaintances live in Fujian, Fuzhou, so a visit to your bar will be unlikely this year,maybe in the future :D

due to the nature of my work and ability to speak fluent mandarin, I sometimes work with chinese banquets and the like. All I ever really see is moutai. out of the 12-13 banquets/weddings/event i've worked/helped out at, about 9 or 10 of them were moutai, the other two times were also some kind of hugely expensive things, of them them even more much expensive than moutai according to a colleague there...

This made me wonder, are the prices of luxurious baiju inflated or not? Chinese acquaintances living in china say no, while western acquaintances (from chinese descent) with knowledge of european fine spritis say yes...

any more reasonably priced baiju I should try? so far only really had moutai, wuliangye and some other big shot/expensive bottle with blue labeling. not too terribly fond of them due to then fairly strong alcohol sting.

Though I must admit that, despite the high alcohol contents, the flavour and aroma is so strong that even a relatively young/inexperienced person can taste through the alcohol. seems to be easier to differentiate than with scotch and cognacs...?

For some reason, moutai reminds me of a calvados I once had in some french village...