Similar to Sado (tea ceremony) for tea preparing and drinking, wine also has its own way. Beer is lively, suitable for festive drinking to one’s full; white spirit is straight forwarded, suitable for drinking up one glass after another. While yellow rice wine is mild, it should be tasted slowly for appreciating its graceful taste.

When air temperature is lower than 10℃, yellow rice wine is better be warmed up before drinking. Local people usually warm up yellow rice wine in a “water bath flask”, a simple and great way. Pouring wine into the flask, and then put in a boiling water bath, the wine temperature will be raised up gradually. Normally the wine is heated up to 40-45℃, then the bouquet of the wine will be expanded into the air, and the flavor of the wine will be enhanced to be milder and more comfortable. Then transfer the wine into a tin pot, and pour into a blue-on-white porcelain cup. The amber-colored wine waving in the cup emits its enchanting aroma. Drinking the lukewarm wine will not only warm up your stomach but also invigorate blood circulation, and the tipsy feeling will be faded away sooner. The pleasant feeling the wine brings is enjoyable.

In high summer, it’s better to keep yellow rice wine in a refrigerator at around 3℃, and be served chilled or on the rock. The amber-colored wine contrasts pleasantly with the shining ice cube, clearing heat while slowing down intoxication.

Yellow rice wine is a wine that should be tasted slowly, the ideal dish with the wine is the one that is chewy and with lingering after-taste. E.g. boiled salty peanut, bean flavored with aniseed, dried bean curd etc. The perfect match of yellow rice wine is steamed crab from Yangcheng Lake. The crab is delicious; however one has to retrain from eating more for its cold nature. While yellow rice wine is warm in nature, warmness counteracts coldness to keep one free from disease. Moreover yellow rice wine can eliminate fish smell effectively, it makes crab more delicious.

Just invite a couple of confidants and place several dishes on table, drink yellow rice wine together slowly, that’s one of the most interested things in life. When a stream of yellow rice wine flow into your stomach slowly, your body will be warmed up slightly, and you’ll be relaxed both physically and mentally. The wine brings you a desire to open your mind and soul to others, a tension to express yourself, a courage to get to know the others, an expectation to unfold the unknown, then the distance between people shortened, the window of soul opened gradually inch by inch…