Distillery
Porcelain Shanghai
Chinese producer of gins inspired by local aesthetics and botanicals: a family-owned company with the signature spirit Porcelain Shanghai Dry Gin and a mandarin variant. Bottles are often presented in elegant handmade ceramic containers.
- Liaoning · China
- 2 products
The story
Family-run company with a production site in Liaoning province (China). The brand's official history traces back to a long family tradition in spice processing, with collaboration from a European expert (Kai Seidenhefter) for recipe development and the distillation process.
Production philosophy
Combining Chinese botanical heritage with modern and traditional distillation techniques; artisanal attention at every stage (from selection and preparation of botanicals to manual label application) and highlighting ceramic packaging as an object of art.
Territory
Liaoning province, People's Republic of China (distillery); product inspired by Shanghai; sold through international retailers. (Official shop notes HK deliveries for direct purchases).
Awards and recognition
The official site reports international recognitions (San Francisco World Spirits Competition 2020; World Gin Awards 2022). Some commercial sheets and retailers list different medal levels for specific expressions (e.g., 'bronze' on some pages).
Production method
Small-batch production with many hand-executed phases (e.g., peeling and processing of citrus and nuts, manual labeling). For the Mandarin expression manual peeling of the peels and cold infusion during the vapor phase are described. The process combines infusion/vapor infusion of botanicals with column distillation.
Distillation
Custom 500 L copper still named Mulan with alembic dome; column distillation with a vapor infusion chamber. Botanicals are simmered in the boiler overnight and the vapors pass through a 6-plate column before ultra-cooled condensation.
Characteristics
- Type
- Distillery
- Categories
- gin
- gins inspired by Chinese botanicals
- mandarin-flavored gin
- craft gin
- gin in ceramic bottle
- Raw materials
- Mongolian juniper berries
- Goji berries
- Sichuan pepper
- Cardamom
- Coriander seeds
- Almond
- Hazelnut
- Orange peel
- Lemon peel
- Grapefruit peel
- Mandarin peel
- Rose
- Representative products
- Porcelain Shanghai Dry Gin (Gin Dry) 70cl
- Porcelain Mandarin Gin (Gin Dry Mandarin) 70cl
What makes it distinctive
- Family-run production in Liaoning province (China)
- Handmade ceramic bottles and manual label application
- Custom 500 L copper still named 'Mulan'
- Method: vapor infusion + 6-plate column; botanicals simmered in the boiler overnight
- Signature Shanghai Dry expression and Mandarin variant (with greater use of mandarin peel)
- International awards reported by the producer (San Francisco WSC 2020; World Gin Awards 2022)