Sauce-flavor quality · Careful inheritance

Maotai town inherits the wine industry

Mainly based on the production of wine, and began to expand their own brand

scroll down

Guizhou Maotai Town Chuancheng Liquor Industry Co., Ltd


Service Hotline:137-6521-5459
Sales Hotline:183-8502-5333
Address: Shangping Village, Maotai Town, Renhuai City, Guizhou Province

Mobile website

What does 12987 winemaking process mean?


2024-07-22


There are a lot of baijiu on the market, all kinds of flavors, but to choose one to get to the table, it is really a technical job. Xiaobian guess that everyone's first reaction is Maotai, the sharp wine in Maotai wine, the entire Maotai town production raw materials, regional endorsement, the whole body feeling is great, then the brewing process of Maotai wine is what? Recently, many wine friends have asked a small edition of this question, then today I will take you to understand the authentic soy sauce wine brewing process, that is, the "12987" process.

1 cycle

The "1" in the 12987 process means that in the brewing process of Daqu sauce wine, it takes 1 year to complete a brewing cycle, and after a long time of precipitation and summary, it is time-consuming, costly, low wine yield, and superior wine.

Two feeds

"2" in the 12987 process. It means that in the brewing process of Daqu sauce wine, two feedings are needed. The process of the first feeding is "sand down". The "lower sand" includes six processes, such as moistening sand, cooking, adding koji, stacking and entering the cellar for fermentation. The second feed is to add new sorghum in a ratio of 1:1 and continue cooking.

9 times cooking

The "9" in the 12987 process. It means that in the brewing process of Daqu sauce wine, a total of nine cooking times are needed. It was steamed with "zeng", a kitchen tool commonly used by people in Guizhou. The cooking process is very important, each cooking takes about 2 hours, repeatedly through 9 times cooking.

Eightfold fermentation

The "8" in the 12987 process. It means that in the brewing process of Daqu sauce wine, a total of eight fermentation times are required. After each steaming, the whole wine is put into the cellar, stored for a long time, blocked with mud, cannot breathe, because of the whole area of Maotai Town, the fermentation effect is very obvious.

Seven take-ups

The "7" in the 12987 process. It means that in the brewing process of Daqu sauce wine, a total of seven times to take wine. After the imbibition of sand and sand making sorghum starch, the next step is to enter the wine collection process, there will be a total of seven rounds of wine collection process.


Relevant Documents


Related News