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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.

This is a extremely rare Kweichow Moutai WuXing, bottled for the Chinese domestic market August 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 Septemb...

This is an extremely rare Kweichow Moutai WuXing, bottled for the Chinese domestic market in 1955, one of only a handful of decanters Moutai from this year which are known to still exist. In the early years (1952-1966) Moutai was bottled in 3-mold ceramic earthenware decanters of which shape and labels changed from year to year. From July 196...

This is a extremely rare Kweichow Moutai WuXing, bottled for the Chinese domestic market in 1955, one of only a handful of decanters Moutai from this year which are known to still exist. In the early years (1952-1966) Moutai was bottled in 3-mold ceramic earthenware decanters of which shape and labels changed from year to year. From July 1966...

This is an extremely rare Kweichow Moutai WuXing, bottled for the Chinese domestic market in 1955, one of only a handful of decanters Moutai from this year which are known to still exist. In the early years (1952-1966) Moutai was bottled in 3-mold ceramic earthenware decanters of which shape and labels changed from year to year. From July 196...

This Kweichow Moutai was bottled August 27, 1978, in a sauce-glazed earthenware decanter. Moutai bottled between January 5, 1953 and December 30, 1982 is a.k.a. Wuxing.

This Kweichow Moutai was bottled March 10, 1979,  in a sauce-glazed earthenware decanter. 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...

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...

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...

The highly sought-after Kweichow “Iron Cap” Moutai series was born at the end of 1985 and lasted until August 1996. 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-...

This Kweichow Moutai FeiTian was bottled in 2001 (batch 6-2000).

This Kweichow Moutai FeiTian was bottled in 2002 (batch 2001-15).

This Kweichow Moutai FeiTian was bottled in 2008 (batch 4-2007). This is a rare 100cl version, twice the size of the usual releases.

This is an early Kweichow Precious, a special release which appeared on the market in 1986, bottled with extra-aged wines, created in honor of the year 1704 when the name Moutai was first used. This one was bottled between 1988 and 1990.

This is the 2021 release of The Essence of Suntory, distilled at Suntory’s Yamazaki Distillery in 2009, and bottled in 2021 after more than a decade in American Oak casks. It’s made using Golden Promise barley, whose profile might be familiar to fans of The Macallan. Golden Promise is a brand name of malt most famously associated with The Mac...