Compared with the more than 600 years of history of Ninghua Mansion, East Lake is quite young, and it is a new trademark registered by Shanxi Laochen Vinegar Factory in 1956. Shanxi Old Aged Vinegar Factory was established by "Meiheju" and 21 vinegar mills, which is the descendant of Shanxi Old Aged Vinegar and is known as "the first vinegar workshop in China" by industry insiders. East Lake Vinegar Garden is the country's first vinegar industry tourism park, in 2004 was rated as a national industrial tourism demonstration base, more than 300,000 tourists come every year, but also the national vinegar industry manufacturers to learn from the experience.
 
Donghu vinegar has been using the "fumigation method" created by the predecessors, and combined with the method of "drying in summer and fishing in winter" to make vinegar, the texture of vinegar has a sense of heaviness that most brands cannot achieve, and the grain aroma is strong. This is most evident in the handmade aged vinegar series, sorghum is fully fermented under the action of microorganisms, and then aged in a pottery clay pot, the total acid reaches 8g/100ml, which is higher than the acidity of Ninghuafu products in the same year, although the taste is still not as rich as Ninghuafu, but it is obvious that the aftertaste is slightly sweet, and drinking directly does not feel sour and stimulating.
 
6° Craft Aged Vinegar is a highly regarded product of East Lake, which has won the National Silver Award three times in 1981, 1985 and 1990. Although it is machine-processed, its heaviness is far from the liquid fermented aged vinegar on the surface, the color is dark brown and shiny, and the umami and sweetness are stronger than that of handmade vinegar, which is very suitable for daily seasoning or soaking peanuts and black beans.
 
The above two series of products correspond to the two categories of handmade vinegar and flavor vinegar in East Lake, and the handmade vinegar is distinguished by year, and the price is higher, and the handmade eight-year-old vinegar is close to 90 yuan a bottle. There are many kinds of flavored vinegar, there are 160ml table bottles, there are also 2.4L large bottles, which can meet the needs of different dosages, dumpling vinegar, white rice vinegar, health vinegar, etc. also have their own characteristics, but the cost performance is not high, if the budget is sufficient, you may wish to try.
 
In addition, East Lake also has gift boxed products, the price ranges from about 100 yuan to more than 3,800 yuan, although the packaging design is not as good as Ninghua Mansion, but it is packed with traditional porcelain altars, which is quite national, and the gift is also face-saving.