Sauce-Aroma Meets Wheat-Aroma: This Coffee and Bread Event Plays with Fresh Ideas

Brief (coffeeyo.com): At the 2026 Chill Power Coffee Bread Week, Xijiu baijiu’s invited mixologist crafted two cocktails — one tailored to bread with cinnamon and apple, one built on 53-degree Junpin baijiu with floral notes — showing how Guizhou liquor meets Western baking.

“The exclusive special blend I’m bringing you this time uses 43-degree Xijiu Qingxiang as the base spirit. It is a sauce-aroma baijiu that relies on Xijiu’s traditional ‘12987’ ancient brewing craft, refined through seven rounds of careful blending; the liquor is warm and mellow with a delicate aroma, suited to creative special blending,” said Manni, the mixologist specially invited by Xijiu, at the 2026 Chill Power Coffee Bread Week on August 21.

Guizhou Xijiu booth.

At the bread-week venue, the Guizhou Xijiu booth displayed some Xijiu products, attracting many visitors to stop. Manni mixed drinks while introducing them to visitors and warmly invited everyone to taste the exclusive special blends.

To fit the bread-week theme, Manni specially prepared two cocktails of very different styles. The first is a special blend “tailor-made” for bread. She added cinnamon, apple and mint to the liquor. “Cinnamon is a classic spice in baking; it echoes the toasted aroma and wheat fragrance of bread just out of the oven,” she explained.

Mixologist Manni shows the prepared cocktails.

The other is more suited to coffee, using the higher-end 53-degree Xijiu Junpin as the base. To soften the baijiu’s sharp edge, she blended in three layers of floral notes — rose, cherry blossom and elderflower — and added crushed ginger for flavor. Junpin’s heavy sauce-aroma is wrapped layer by layer by the floral notes; the entry is the fragrance of flowers, the aftertaste is the mellow depth of the liquor, and the finish carries a hint of ginger spiciness, instantly giving the whole drink a three-dimensional layering.

“I hope these two special blends let everyone feel the unique new flavor of Guizhou Xijiu colliding and fusing with Western baking,” Manni said.

Prepared cocktails on display.

It is reported that the 2026 Chill Power Coffee Bread Week will run until August 24. The event is jointly hosted by Guizhou Tourism Industry Development Group Co., Ltd. and Guizhou Xijiu Co., Ltd. On site there are not only bread and coffee but also creative special blends brought by Xijiu, letting citizens experience a brand-new way to enjoy baijiu while strolling and eating.

Source: Reporter Peng Dian.

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