''Xīfèngjiǔ'' (

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baijiu ''Baijiu'' (), also known as ''shaojiu'' (/), is a colorless Chinese liquor typically coming in between 35% and 60% alcohol by volume (ABV). Each type of baijiu uses its own type of ''qū'' for fermentation to create a distinct and charact ...

distilled from sorghum and made from a barley and pea based qū starter. It is named from its production in

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. Xifengjiu has relatively short period of fermentation when compared with other types of Bajiu, which is only two weeks.The aroma (Xiāng-Xíng, 香型 in Chinese) of Xifengjiu is a type of ''mixed aroma'' (Jiān-Xiāng-Xíng, 兼香型 in Chinese),which is a mixture of ''strong aroma'' (Nóng-Xiāng-Xíng, 浓香型 in Chinese) and ''light aroma'' (Qīng-Xiāng-Xíng, 清香型 in Chinese),with the former as the base armoa, and in 1992, its aroma was further classified to ''Feng aroma'' (Fèng-Xiāng-Xíng, 凤香型 in Chinese) otherwise known as ''Phoenix aroma''.Despite winning several national awards, sales are mainly local, with 70% of the market limited to native

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