The vessel, which dates back to the Shang dynasty, contained a liquid that ... an associate researcher with the lab, “...fruit wine and rice wine made through fermentation without distillation ...

Wine, the elixir of the gods, may be as old as human history, and a team of archaeologists who combine their science with chemistry has found evidence that Chinese were already enjoying sips of ...

Chief among the treasures to emerge from the Osaka-based Fujita Museum is this ancient wine vessel ... A very rare example of a Shang dynasty vessel in the form of an animal (there are only ...

The Shang Dynasty was not known for the production of distilled liquor. Wine-making dates as far back as the Neolithic period (7000 B.C.E. to 1700 B.C.E.), but distilled liquor did not appear ...