How old is Maotai Distillery?

Maotai liquor has a history of more than 800 years, and it is a traditional characteristic liquor in China.

After the Tang and Song Dynasties, Maotai gradually became the tribute wine of successive dynasties and spread overseas through the Southern Silk Road. Huang Tingjian, a great poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, once wrote a famous sentence, "A glass of wine in the spring breeze of peaches and plums is Yi Deng for ten years". After drinking, he also lamented that Moutai was "extremely delicious".

19 15, Panama World Expo was held, and the Beiyang government, in the name of "Maotai Company", sent Moutai in clay pots to the exhibition. At the Expo, outsiders initially dismissed Moutai as a "dusty" package. In desperation, a China official intentionally or unintentionally smashed the crock to the ground. Suddenly, the wine overflowed, which surprised everyone.

Subsequently, Maotai won the gold medal in one fell swoop and became one of the three famous distilled wines in the world, enjoying a world-renowned reputation, along with English Scotch Whisky and French Cognac.

The headquarters of Kweichow Moutai Distillery Group is located in Maotai Town on the Chishui River in northern Guizhou Province. Located at east longitude 106 22', north latitude 27 5 1', with an altitude of 423 meters, it now covers an area of 2.2 million square meters.

Kweichow Moutai Winery Group consists of nearly 20 enterprises including China Kweichow Moutai Winery Co., Ltd., Kweichow Moutai Winery Group Science and Technology Development Company, Kweichow Moutai Winery Group Xijiu Co., Ltd. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, holding companies and shareholding companies.

The industrial fields involved by the Group include Maotai liquor, gift box liquor, puree liquor, beer, wine, red wine, securities, banking, insurance, property and scientific research.

China Kweichow Moutai Distillery Co., Ltd., formerly known as China Kweichow Moutai Distillery, was successfully transformed into a limited liability company (hereinafter referred to as the group company) on 1999, and Guizhou Maotai Liquor Co., Ltd., initiated by the limited liability company and China Food Fermentation Science Research Institute, was formally established. In August of 200 1 year, Kweichow Moutai was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

The Group Company is the only liquor production enterprise in China that integrates national first-class enterprises, national super-large enterprises, national excellent enterprises (Golden Horse Award) and national quality-benefit advanced enterprises.

Kweichow Moutai, the company's leading product, is the first representative of China's national industry and commerce going global. 19 15 Kweichow Moutai won the gold medal in Panama World Expo. Together with French cognac and English scotch whisky, it is called the world's three famous (distilled) wines. It is the originator and typical representative of China Daqu Maotai-flavor liquor. In the past hundred years, 14 has won various international gold medals and won the domestic famous wine competition in succession.

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