Chinese Cooking Wine

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By Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid

Published 1998

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Chinese cooking wine This rice wine is sold in Chinese grocery stores and well-stocked liquor stores. If it’s sold in a grocery store, it will be marked “contains salt” or “not to be used or sold as beverage” in order to enable it to be sold as an ingredient rather than as a liquor. Look for bottles labeled “Shao Xing wine.” It is from 15 percent to 18 percent alcohol, keeps indefinitely, and is a staple of the Chinese pantry. You can substitute a dry medium-dry sherry.