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What is Baijiu, the world's most drunk spirit? - Part I -

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門倉郷史／Kadokura Satoshi from「Jiu Bai Bai Journal」

Recently, some international bar tenders have been focusing on one of the world's three major distilled liquors, Chinese white wine (baijiu, also known as baijou or pai chu). What is its potential as a cocktail base?) What is its potential as a cocktail base? How can its unique aroma be used in cocktails? What is baijiu?
We asked Mr. Goshi Kadokura, a Chinese liquor explorer, about the basics of baijiu in order to make the most of it in bars.

writer：Ryoko Kuraishi

A Shanghai cocktail bar that focuses on Chinese liquors, Kadokura told us HEALER BAR, which opened in 2016, offers hundreds of Chinese yellow, white, rice, and herbal liquors and more than 50 cocktails based on these liquors. The names of the drinks are based on Chinese classics and historical episodes, and the glasses have unique visuals. The glasses are also uniquely designed, making it look like a "Chinese liquor museum.

Baijiu attracts the attention of whiskey lovers and wine connoisseurs.

Along with whiskey and brandy, baijiu is one of the world's three most popular distilled liquors.

While it is well-known in Chinese restaurants where you can enjoy the authentic, un-Japaneseized taste of "Gachi-Chinese" and "frontier Chinese," it is still not well-known in Japanese bars.

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