Every country has its national spirit. Some are better known: the Caribbean has rum , England has gin , and Poland and Russia have vodka ; others are lesser known: Unicum in Hungary and soju in Korea. China’s is baijiu .
Crockery jars of locally produced baijiu in Hainan province. Photo by Anna Frodesiak via Wikimedia.
The world’s bestselling spirit, with more than seven billion bottles sold in 2013 (but almost all consumed in China), baijiu has been produced for more than 1,000 years. Recently it has become more widely available in the west (partly due to new rules on corporate gifting causing a sales...
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