Recommended series: five-year mouth cellar, six-year mouth cellar, ten-year mouth cellar
 
Kouzijiao is a representative brand of thick sauce and fragrant liquor, which comes from Huaibei, Anhui Province, and is unique in the Jianghuai liquor circle. In 2003, Kouzijiao passed the national certification, established its aroma attributes, in 2006 was rated as one of the top ten influential brands in China's liquor industry, and passed the pure grain solid-state fermented liquor logo identification, in the same year by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China recognized as China's time-honored brand. At present, although the three flavor types of thick, sauce and clear have carved up the main market share, Kouzijiao still maintains stable growth and has a significant market share, occupying the market of mid-to-high-end and fragrant liquor, which is inseparable from its reliable quality and affordable price.
 
Kouzijiao uses sorghum, corn, glutinous rice, rice brewing, barley, wheat, peas with koji, brewing water is the local Suixi groundwater, the water quality is clean, in the raw materials with the regular, and the koji raw materials are the same as Yanghe. The winery's cellars have been carefully maintained for a long time, and the unique microbial community plays a decisive role in the style of the wines. The wine-making process adopts the solid-state fermentation method, combined with its core process of "big steaming and big return", that is, the fermented liquor is mixed with raw materials that have been accumulated and moistened at high temperatures, and the retort is steamed and koji, and the cycle is repeated five times, and then the head and tail are removed to leave the best original liquor. This consumes a lot of raw materials, but ensures good quality.
 
The characteristics of Kouzijiao liquor are that the wine is clear and transparent or slightly yellow, the body is plump, there is a strong fragrance at the first smell, there is a sauce aroma when you smell it carefully, the aroma is harmonious, and the taste is sweet and mellow. Compared with the sauce flavor type and the strong flavor type, its outstanding unifying characteristics are that the taste is astringent and the spicy feeling lasts for a long time.
 
Kouzijiao has a single product line, mainly classified according to the age of the wine, the age of the wine is between five and thirty years, the alcohol content is more than 40%, and no low-alcohol liquor is produced. The more popular ones are the five-year type, with an alcohol content of 40.8% and a price of about 130 yuan; The six-year type has an alcohol content of 41% and the price is about 180 yuan, and the ten-year type with an alcohol content of 41% is about 360 yuan.