Beishan Jiujing The first winemaker of China was the legendary Du Kang who lived during the reign of the Yellow Emperor Huangdi, approx. 2600 B.C. The earliest known scientific description on rice wine production in China is the Beishan Jiujing in the North Mountain...
Du Kang – About China’s oldest liquor “At sunset I sit in front of my door, a glass in my hand, and I feel like a god” is a Chinese saying depicting the love of Chinese people to enjoy to glass of Báijiǔ alone under the blossoming trees in the...
Women in early distilling Happy International Woman’s Day 2022 The first two named distillers are both women! Tapputi-Belatekallim who lived around 1200 BC in Babylon, Mesopotamia was the first in history to own a still (that she used for perfume distilling)....
