Buying Emperor's Smile (from Mo Dao Zu Shi) in the Gusu district of Suzhou, Jiangsu province. OP bought a jar of both 12% and 38%, and according to others who also bought it, it is a sour fruity wine, and because of the low alcohol content, the flavour of the baijiu is overpowered by the fruit flavour.
The shop is on Pingjiang Road (平江路), a historic district in Gusu. The street also has many other shops selling Emperor's Smile. Another street with shops selling Emperor's Smile is Shantang Street (山塘街), also in Gusu.
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One of the other shops (?) on Pingjiang Road offers both white and black jars
Copied from my reblog: I hear that there's a shop on Shantang Street that sells a 52% ABV Emperor's Smile and is a spicy baijiu, which would be far more accurate to the type of wine Wei Wuxian would have been drinking.
The fact that you can make wine out of basically any fruit is so endlessly enthralling to me like why are we so stuck on grapes what's so great about them anyway. #Fuck grapes
Harper fiddled with a touching love story, a letterlocked square of creamy ivory parchment faintly scented with violets. "A pleasure as always to see you, Mr. Wines. I, erm, don't suppose you've run out of Black Wings since we met last? I must... thank you for your generosity, of course, but that's the only spirit you've given me the past two dozen times you've had a sale." They said with a forced laugh. "I was wondering if, potentially, you might have something else?"
Wines laughed, full-throated and resonant, for long enough that Harper's polite smile became rather strained. It wheezed, palm thumping against the table as if they had just told the funniest joke it had heard in millenia.
"We thought you were supposed to be clever." It said in a high, shivery voice, plucking the love story free with a dainty claw before depositing yet another bottle of Black Wings Absinthe into Harper's outstretched hand.
Harper suppressed a groan as they turned and walked away, and Wines's laughter followed the whole way down the sidestreet.
"Bottles" is a pop art style painting by Vadym Mykhalchuk that fits into any modern interior in the home of a wine or whiskey and spirits collector. The simplicity and brightness of the composition combined with the modern style and basic elements make it universally attractive and aesthetically pleasing.
Here it is everyone! I have finished Ode to Persephone! I had a lot of fun painting this and am excited to have it submitted to the STCEA Anniversary Show!