Southern Jiangsu Wine Culture Museum, located at the riverside of Fengqiao Bridge in Tongluo community, Taoyuan, was open to the public on October 26th, 2003. It covers an area of more than 1000 square meters with a floor area of 500 square meters. Against the backdrop of rich wine culture, it boasts a science museum encompassing knowledge, fun and esthetic enjoyment which shows a wide display of every aspect related from the history to the people, from the wine to wager games, from taverns to wine art, from labels to reputation.
The museum is an antique architecture of Huizhou style. A huge imitation bronze wine cup stands at the center of the front yard with “wine” like springs never drying. The ground on its four sides is paved with pebbles with four distinctive Chinese characters for wine. There are eighteen showrooms, a room displaying traditional wine-making process, an imitation of old small taverns in Southern Jiangsu and a tasting room in the museum. The showrooms exhibit more than 100 famous Chinese calligraphy and painting works on wine culture, over 100 artistic wine sets through the ages, the history of wine and tools for wine making. The hall is dazzled by the endless array of wine samples. Besides, the museum also possesses a collection of couplets related to wine.
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