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...Citi analysts estimate that wholesale prices of Moutai products in first-tier cities stand at about Rmb2,670 ($365) a bottle, marginally down from Rmb2,790 at the end of August....
...Other comments under a post in which Messi endorsed Chinese liquor brand Chishuihe called on it to cut ties with the star....
...It was one of only a few clubs in the country with a licence to operate all-nude entertainment and sell liquor 24 hours a day....
...“Always gold bars and Maotai [Chinese liquor] . . ....
...Perhaps it is the caraway and dill in the liquor — the rich meat requires an ample dose — but I could swear I caught the scent of the summer tundra....
...Yang Kai, a friend of Gao’s, is from Maotai township, the town where China’s famous liquor is made. His family are also distillers, but Yang said he does not want to start his own distillery....
...A few wine glasses, a bottle of red wine and a clay vessel of Maotai liquor stand among the plates and bowls. At first glance, it all looks rather appetising....
...The city’s benchmark Hang Seng index has fallen more than 8 per cent this year....
...In the central city of Wuhan, Li Kun, a marketing manager, said he had one cup of Wuliangye before switching to orange juice during a lunar new year dinner with his family last Saturday....
...(The majority of alcohol in British Columbia is still sold at government-run liquor stores.)...
...To many drinkers, the idea of adding water to liquor defeats the purpose, or even seems like a rip-off....
...“Bottle caps — or, rather, liquors like gins, brandy, whisky — were among the items brought by Europeans to trade with Africa. They exchanged them for many things, including humans....
...It wasn’t until 1969 that you could grab a bottle of wine off the shelf (and only in a government-run liquor store)....
...In the city of Zhangjiakou in Hebei province, where part of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Games were held, local budgets are increasingly strained....
...I bought a bottle later in a very sophisticated liquor store in Puerto Vallarta for 267 pesos, the equivalent of $15....
...For Dickson, this seedy wasteland has become her defining oeuvre: cinematic paintings where darkness is uncovered by luminescent street signs above liquor stores and bars....
...small dinner of local businessmen in Wuhan, the talk focused on the usual topics — who had the best contacts among the local Communist party lingdao, or bosses, and jokes about which baijiu, or Chinese liquor...
...Behind his chair, a stunning reel-to-reel tape machine and, beside it, a bar shelf, with a few bottles of half-drunk liquor....
...The city’s local government is rolling back a liquor licensing set-up introduced last year, which liberalised alcohol sales and expanded the number of licensees....
...“Five years ago, it wasn’t like this,” he says about the people openly using drugs around us on Market Street, just outside the Urban Alchemy headquarters, where he sells souvenir photographs of local liquor...
...Until now, lockdowns limited capacity losses to certain cities. They will now become widespread. Sooner or later, China had to reopen its economy....
...Trevor ElliottWhen you walk to the city and there’s all these names like the (inaudible), like these old generals, revolutionary war figures....
...“She is totally fearless, she will stand up to the government and the judges,” said Kate Cassidy, a criminal defence lawyer at Morvillo Abramowitz, who worked with Necheles and defended liquor heir Clare...
...The move suggested that the drug may become more available in bigger cities in the coming weeks....
...The brand of distilled liquor became the official national libation shortly after the communist revolution....
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