Huangjiu · FFET10076
Sealed-Vat Wine Traditional Brewing Craft
The sealed-vat wine craft was chosen for the second national heritage batch, using glutinous rice and Maoshan spring water with sealed ageing.
A hand pours golden wine from a bamboo dipper into a shallow two-handled bowl, beside it stand a jar sealed with a clay cap and a bamboo tray of steaming glutinous rice, and paddy fields lie in the distance.
Huangjiu, fermented from glutinous rice, millet or wheat and then pressed.
On the China Intangible Cultural Heritage website, the item "Brewed Wine Traditional Brewing Techniques (Sealed-Vat Wine Traditional Brewing Techniques)" is a traditional craft declared by Jintan, Jiangsu, and was added to the second batch of the national representative list in 2008; the protection unit is the Jintan District Cultural Centre of Changzhou. The item page says brewed wine is "commonly called huangjiu", that sealed-vat wine is made from local glutinous rice and Maoshan spring water, and that it is so named because it needs "a long ageing with the vat sealed".