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Baijiu

Family
Single-distillate spirit
Raw materials
Cereals
Place of origin
China
Location map: the indicative position of Baijiu, with no outline. Scale: 250 km. 250 km
Indicative marker — a point, and nothing more Indicative position — no outline is loaded

Chinese spirit from fermented cereals, chiefly sorghum, using qū ferment. The world's most consumed spirit by volume.

The thing to remember

Almost unknown in the West, although it accounts for a major share of the world's consumption of spirits.

Terroirs and geographical indications

The recognised production areas attached to this category in the Atlas.

  • Moutai Geographical indication registered in the European Union · China

Sources and validation

Sources of the corpus
Names and statuses: eAmbrosia, the official register of geographical indications of the European Union. Geometries: INAO, Délimitation des aires géographiques des SIQO (27/07/2026), Licence Ouverte v2.0, reprojected to WGS84.
Corpus updated on
1 August 2026
Validation
Seed entry Corpus under construction. Each entry is checked and sourced before validation by the future scholarly board. Protection status and mode of location are carried by each entry: an area delimited by a product specification and a reference-town point do not carry the same weight.

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