Rice and Fruit Wines · FFET10049
Jinhua Wine Brewing Craft
Jinhua wine brewing entered the second national heritage batch in 2008, made from rice, millet, maize and similar grains.
Sweet fermented rice foams gently in a clay basin with a wooden spoon in it, beside it stand a bowl of rice-wine glutinous balls, a bunch of grapes and a basket of green plums, and grapes hang on a trellis to the left.
Rice wines of the sweet fermented-rice kind, and wines brewed from fruit.
On the China Intangible Cultural Heritage website the item is named “Traditional Brewing Techniques for Brewed Wine (Jinhua Wine)”. It is a traditional craft declared from Jinhua, Zhejiang, and was added to the second batch of the national representative list in 2008. The item page says the wine is made from rice, millet, maize and similar grains, and that brewing involves dozens of steps from start to finish.