Jiujiang Double-distilled Rice Wine Museum

Welcome to the Jiujiang Double-distilled Rice Wine Museum, a temple dedicated to one of the most significant sensory exports of the Pearl River Delta. As you stand before the museum’s entrance in Jiujiang Town, Nanhai, you are…

Any master brewer will tell you that the soul of a wine lies in its ingredients. We begin our tour at the section dedicated to the raw materials: water and rice. …

We now move into what many consider the most mysterious part of the museum: the 'Qu' room. In Chinese brewing, 'Qu' refers to the starter culture—a complex block of herbs, grain, and fungi that initiates fermentation. …

We have reached the heart of the museum’s namesake: the Double Distillation gallery. Here, we analyze the 'Shuangzheng' technique that revolutionized the industry in the early 1800s. …

Step into the aging cellar, a space often referred to as the 'Ceramic Forest.' Here, thousands of massive brown ceramic vats stand in silent formation, some of which have been in use for over fifty years. In the world of rice…

Having explored the science, we now enter 'Drunken Lane,' a reconstructed historical street that captures the social life of Jiujiang during its golden age. In the late 19th century, Jiujiang was a bustling river port where wine…

Our final section brings us into the contemporary era, where tradition meets modern automation. From the viewing gallery, you can see the modern bottling lines where thousands of bottles of Jiujiang Shuangzheng are filled,…

Our tour of the Jiujiang Double-distilled Rice Wine Museum concludes here, where it began, at the intersection of history and modern life. We have traced the path of a simple grain of rice through steam, fermentation, and the…