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by chongli 497 days ago
Nope. Rice wine, sorghum wine, barley wine. Those are 3 wines made from grains that I could name off the top of my head.
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Barleywine is a beer (it requires malting of the barley) marketed as a wine.

Sorghum wine (baijiu) is a distilled spirit, closer to vodka, mistranslated as a wine.

Rice wine (sake, mijiu) really does seem more like a wine than a beer, apart from the fact that it's made from grain. Not sure what is special about rice that makes it suitable for making wine.