According to this deal, the $180 price comes down to $162 at checkout.
Maybe Dan Murphy's will price match?
Get a taste of Chinese history with a bottle of National Cellar 1573 Guojiao The Only Chinese Organic Baijiu. Clear, distilled and grain-forward, this is one of the most famous Chinese liquors and is considered as one of the greatest symbols of their culture.
its an acquired taste LOL
Chinese Organic
These two words on the same line?
should it be Organic Chinese BJ….?
That’s Korean. not Chinese
…uggh.
Maybe Clive Hamilton can write a review on this BJ.
Let's be real here. This stuff is inferior to even the most basic vodka. It tastes like tainted vodka, actually.
This is for Chinese nationalists at best.
Taste note on that comment:
Slightly over the top and alack of complexity in the first read. Time should soften the hint of non-objective racism after taste. With room for maturity in the coming 5-10 year, only if well stored in controlled condition.
Riiiight.
Have you actually tasted the product though? Or are you just leaping at the chance to disguise your scream of wrongthink with pithiness? Somehow I think you would have scrolled right past I'd the comment we're about e.g. an overpriced famously French wine being inferior.
Amusing you refer to race, when I referred to political affiliation. I guess it's harder to virtue signal by shaming criticism of a government, and one that gulags countless people for the crime of being born of non han-chinese race … Sounds pretty racist to me, lol. Easier to just pretend they're talking about race of course!
Chinese is a race, not political affiliation. The country is People's Republic of China (PRC) and the ruling party is the Chinese Communist Party (some call them commies).
Lable Chinese' affiliation to the PRC can be insulting, at an even greater scale than saying NZ is an AU state. Think of the Australian Chinese living here, the Chinese living in other countries with absolute minimal to no affiliation to the PRC. I feel sorry for Singaporeans and Taiwanese being associated with the PRC, truly feel for them. A few of my mates got asked whether their country (Singapore and Taiwan) is a PRC province.
@[Deactivated]: Could have saved all that time writing up a comment by googling the word you obviously didn't understand:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/nationalism
Being a Chinese NATIONALIST does not have any race requirements. And, vice versa you can be Chinese without being a nationalist. I imagine many fleeing the country certainly are.
PS: Absolutely no idea what incorrectly labelling one country (NZ) as another (Aus) has to do with anything. I certainly didn't do that.
@[Deactivated]: Criticism of the CCP is not criticism of Chinese people. Just like criticism of Nazism is not criticism of German people
@vfmtech: Thank you, vfmtech. That's the exact point I was getting at. My comment was to disagree with "Chinese" nationalist claimed by OP.
@vfmtech: But that's been an excuse for heaps of racists right now. "We don't dislike Chinese people, we just hate CCP!".
As I talk to them, most of what those people know about CCP are mostly from biased mainstream media, never bother to find something on their own.
There's a different principle behind baijiu and vodka. Vodka aims to be flavourless. They use grain alcohol distilled in column stills to strip out any trace of other alcohols and fusil oils, sometimes multiple times and filtered through activated carbon. Most other spirits are distilled using pot stills intentionally to leave some of those components in to retain the flavours that in vodka would be considered defects. The best whiskies will state theat they're not filtered as a point of pride. If you got a Russian to taste an expensive, well-aged, lovingly crafted Islay malt he might assume it is the cheapest backyard samogon.
As a Russian who has drunk vodka at family gatherings since I was a teen it took me some time to learn to sip rather than shot spirits and learn to appreciate the flavour of other spirits… my father still thinks most whiskies taste like tainted vodka. In recent trips to China I've actually learned to appreciate baijiu and it actually is a crafted product that has interesting depth of lflavour, and there is a big diference between the good stuff and the cheap stuff. I haven't tried this particular brand but Moutai is actually delicious.They use a complex mixture of yeast/fungal cultures (like sake/shochu) to develop a depth of flavour, and distill it in pot stills and sometimes age it for years specifically to fdevelop the taste. All these processes are inefficient expensive steps taken specifically to develop flavour.. Basic, clean ethanol distillation is actually not that complex or expensive, and can be done pretty cheaply if you want a clean neutral tasting spirit.
Lol. You started with the good stuff. Will take some time (if ever) to adjust your palate to the "cheaper" Chinese wine/liquor.
lol Yeah I've been spoiled - every time I go there my father in law opens bottles from his special stash. I think the harshest I've tried is Wuliangye, which I understand is a high end product.
A strange coincidence, as I am also Russian and was introduced to liquor in the same way. Yet I think it's optimistic at best to put whiskey and baijiu in the same basket, especially given that whiskies have an entire second element of aging in wood.
In any case, Ive also tried a variety of baijiu with Chinese friends and in almost every case they've been mediocre to foul to someone with a western pallette at least (which isn't great given the price point). For those people who don't like a tainted rocket fuel taste and want a clear liqour, stick to vodka - that's my point.
Haha I guessed you might be. Baijiu and Whisky are different but similar in the sense that they're distilled spirits where the fusil oils and other flavour compounds are intentionally left in by contrast to vodka. Baijiu is often also aged for flavour. If you get a chance to try some of the older, more expensive Moutai give it a go. My first time in China someone cracked open a special bottle at 53% and the two of us finished it over dinner and I had zero hangover the next day, as I do with good quality vodka.
That was my experience of Moutai.
"This is an entirely new flavour to me, but it seems rather refined and I can tell it is expensive."
Never tried myself. Anyone can give comment based on first hand experience?
First comment had it about right. "Tastes like metho and molasses, with a hint of rocket fuel" though my impression wasn't sweet like molasses.
Great price, thanks for sharing.
If you can't even produce baby formula to feed the most vulnerable babies in your country then imagine the rest of the products.
;) all about priorities, I suppose.
Products out of the PRC can be a real joke.
Hey, Australia has a wonderful natural environment and mature milk industry (is it the accurate term?), and people in other countries like its product.
China is a close neighbor to Australia, and China has a huge population. So naturally, there will be a lot of Chinese buying a lot of Australian products.
That doesn't mean Australians should sit on it, make the money, and laugh at it.
For a non-connoisseur, who is trying his first Baijiu, is it worth buying this brand ? Or, should the person try some cheaper brand first (like Red Star Baijiu sold for $45 a bottle at Dan Murphys) ?
What I mean to say is, would the taste difference between the $162 National Cellar and the $45 Red Star be obvious to a first time Baijiu drinker ?
I think you may be able to tell the differences between a $45 bottle and a $160 one. You can then try the $300 bottle. From the sense of long lasting of the flavour and the smooth level.
My personal favourite is the 5 wheats, one of the top BJ. I bought 6 bottles last time when it was on special.
Tastes like metho and molasses, with a hint of rocket fuel.