A Beginner’s Guide to Baijiu
The dragon has teeth, so learn to respect it
4 min readAug 15, 2021
In recent decades, Westerners have become well-acquainted with the concept of rice wine, particularly sake, a key component of our cultural obsession with Japan. But the Chinese variety — baijiu, literally “white wine” — is far less known. Baijiu is, in some ways, an oddity: By volume it’s the best-selling spirit in the world by a wide…
