This Baijiu, bottled in a sauce-glazed earthenware decanter, depicts the communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong announcing the creation of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949. We assume this decanter was created around the same day in 1979 to honor the 40th anniversary of the R.O.C.

Moutai 1935 is a mid-range product from Guizhou Moutai Liquor Co. The origin of the design is written on the back of the bottle, and this liquor commemorates Moutai’s predecessor, the Burning House, which won a special prize at the Southwest Provinces Materials Exhibition, in order to pass on the heritage of Moutai and remember the historical classics. This product is made from high quality local sorghum and wheat, with water from the Chishui River, a river of fine Chinese spirits, and strictly adheres to the traditional brewing process of making the liquor at the Dragon Boat Festival, feeding it at the Chongyang Festival, steaming it nine times, fermenting it eight times, extracting it seven times during the brewing period, storing it in fractions and blending it for a one-year production cycle, and then storing it in Moutai’s unique cellar for five years before packaging it for delivery. This one was bottled January 16, 2014 (batch 14-01-03-10).

Content 500ml - volume 53%

This is a extremely rare Kweichow Moutai WuXing (Vintage Five-Star), bottled for the Chinese domestic market June 6th 1952, one year after the founding of Kweichow but still produced at Hengxing, run by Lai Mao (known for the record-selling 1935 bottle, the oldest Moutai known in existence), one of 3 distilleries which eventually formed Kweichow Moutai. In September 1952, three months after the release of this bottle, Moutai was one of 4 liquors/wines which were selected in the national wine appraisal held in Beijing. Between 1952 and 1966 Kweichow Moutai was sold in 3-mold ceramic earthenware decanters, produced in Guizhou, nicknamed Bamboo Joint bottles. 

 Content and % ABV are not stated, such information first appeared on the Feitian bottles in 1976. We estimate this to be a 545ml bottle with 55% ABV.    

  

 
This is an extremely rare Kweichow Moutai WuXing, bottled for the Chinese domestic market August 18, 1953. The total production of Kweichow in 1955 was 209 metric ton, ex-factory price per bottle 1,28 Yuan, market price 2,84 Yuan. Between 1952 and 1966 Kweichow Moutai was sold in 3-mold ceramic earthenware decanters nicknamed Bamboo Joint bottles. The shape of these bottles and the labels changed annually. 

Content and % ABV are not mentioned, we assume this is a 545ml bottle with 53-55% ABV.    

Kweichow Moutai which was produced for the domestic market between 1966 and 1983 was nicknamed "Three Revolutions" because of the words "Developing Three Revolutions" on its back. This one was bottled August 10th 1973.

Content 545ml - volume 55%

This Kweichow Moutai WuXing was bottled August 27, 1978, in a Jing Pin brown decanter. Jing Pin is a bespoke design for Statue Banquets, a blend of 15-year old base batch and a 30-year old flavoring batch.

Moutai bottled between January 5, 1953 and December 30, 1982 is known as WuXing, Old Five-Star and Golden Wheel.
This Kweichow Moutai WuXing was bottled August 27, 1978, in a Jing Pin brown decanter. Jing Pin is a bespoke design for Statue Banquets, a blend of 15-year old base batch and a 30-year old flavoring batch. Moutai bottled between January 5, 1953 and December 30, 1982 is known as WuXing, Old Five-Star and Golden Wheel.

This Kweichow Moutai was bottled March 10, 1979 in a Jing Pin brown decanter. Jing Pin is a bespoke design for Statue Banquets, a blend of 15-year old base batch and a 30-year old flavoring batch. Moutai bottled between January 5, 1953 and December 30, 1982 is known as WuXing, Old Five-Star and Golden Wheel.

The highly sought-after Kweichow “Iron Cap” Moutai series was born at the end of 1985 and lasted for about a decade. From January 1987, all the domestic and export packaging of Moutai liquor was officially changed to special aluminum screw capsules. The venerable distiller had previously only used stoppers of wood and plastic, or even bladder-skin seals. Manufactured by the Italian Guala Closures Group, which specializes in non-refillable aluminum closures for spirits, the special aluminum screw capsules were designed to prevent counterfeiting and tampering. This is a very early bottle, dated April 25, 1985.

This Kweichow Moutai Feitian was bottled in 2002 for the export market.

Content 500ml - volume 53%

This Kweichow Moutai Feitian batch 2001-13 was bottled March 11th 2002 for the export market.

Content 500ml - volume 53%

Kweichow Moutai, blended and bottled June 28, 2006, exclusively for the State Council Agency Service Bureau.    

Content 500ml - volume 53%

This rare Kweichow Moutai Feitian Pu Mao was released to commemorate the successful Beijing Olympic Ceremony which started Friday, August 8th at 20.00 China time precisely. Bottled June 9, 2009.  

Content 500ml - volume 53%

Kweichow Moutai, blended and bottled February 18, 2009 in honor of the 60th Anniversary of the People’s Republic China.

Content 500ml - volume 53%

This Kweichow Moutai FeiTian was bottled in 2010 for the Shanghai Expo for Wine, intended as a present for visitors. Each 1000th visitor received a free bottle, with a maximum of 5 bottles per day for a period of 184 days.

Content 500ml - volume 38%

This Limited Edition Kweichow Moutai FeiTian was blended & bottled exclusively for the 2010 Shanghai Expo for Wine, held from May 1 until October 31, 2010 with over 73.000.000 visitors (!). Production date June 9, 2009 which is also the date for another commemorative release for the 60th Anniversary of China.

Content 500ml - volume 53%

This Kweichow Moutai Limited Edition was blended and bottled for Thrive on September 20th 2010.

Content 500ml - volume 53%

Kweichow Moutai 2012, bottled for promotional purposes.

Content 500ml - volume 53%

Kweichow Moutai 2014, bottled for the year of Jiawu, the Horse, is the first of an annual range depicting the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. In total some 350 tons of Moutai was blended for this occasions, bottled in 500ml, 1- and 2,5 liter bottles.

Content 500ml - volume 53%

Dragon Blade is a movie, released February 2015, starring superstar Jackie Chan; for this special occasion Jack Chan teamed up with Kweichow Moutai and released this beautiful golden decanter.

Content 500ml - volume 53%

Kweichow Moutai 2015, bottled for the year of the Yi-Wei (sheep). The total production for this particular zodiac release was less than 250 ton and, as such, this is the rarest of all zodiac releases. Bottled November 7, 2015; batch #2015-060.

Content 500ml -volume 53%