Where can I buy Shaoxing rice wine online?

[cbread]

The title says it all. I can't find a good Shaoxing rice wine close to home. The biggest local asian mart just has the salted junk and elsewhere it is entirely missing. Is there any online purveyor?

Can anyone recopmmend a brand name also? The local State Liquor store would try to search if I have a brand name to aim them at.

Thanks!

C

[Anna N]

The title says it all. I can't find a good Shaoxing rice wine close to home. The biggest local asian mart just has the salted junk and elsewhere it is entirely missing. Is there any online purveyor?

Can anyone recopmmend a brand name also? The local State Liquor store would try to search if I have a brand name to aim them at.

Thanks!

C

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[cbread]

Hi,

Thanks for that! I'll have to see if that name will help the state liquor store find a brand. If anyone else has a brand name or an online seller, I'd love to know.

Thanks,

C

[Haivart]

We have a (mainly) Korean grocery nearby (metro Detroit) that sells it. I'll check for brands the next time I'm there.

[cbread]

Thanks! - I have had no luck finding brand names. Odd.

Maybe it has to do with the variety of spellings that all mean Shaoxing. I've run into Shao Hsing, Shao Xing, Shaohsing, Shao hsing, Hsao Shing....

[Will]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaoxing_wine#Producers has a list of some producers, most of whom seem to produce drinking grade stuff.

It mentions

Gǔ Yuè Lóng Shān (古越龍山)

Dì Jù Táng (帝聚堂)

Kuai ji Shan (doesn't specify)

Tǔ Shào Jiǔ (土绍酒)

I don't know where you live, but I'm not sure how much luck you'll have finding an online source that sells drinking grade Shaoxing wine to the US / Canada market. The demand is low, and probably concentrated mostly in areas with a large Asian population.

Shào xīng is the standard Hanyu pinyin for 绍兴 (pronounced in Mandarin with a falling tone and then a high flat tone, roughly 'shao sheeng' (with the tongue curled back for the first 'sh') or 'sao sheeng' (most Southern Chinese and Taiwanese don't pronounce the sh / zh / ch sounds in the standard way)), however, because it's been sold in the West for so long, many other romanizations are common.

Just to make sure, have you looked in other parts of your local Asian market besides where the cooking wine is sold, and are there any bigger / better Asian markets within driving distance? You mention the state liquor stores - are grocery stores even allowed to sell non-cooking alcohol where you live?

[cbread]

Just what I was looking for. I'll run them by the state liquor store to see if any of those are obtainable. I'll report back with results. Thanks!

[Haivart]

The bottle in front of me says: Shao xing rice wine. Cheng Brand. Shaoxing East Asia Inp & Exp Co. Ltd. Imported by Four Seasons Trading Company. There is another one, but it has more Chinese than English on it, and I'll have to get help to tell you what it says.