The alcohols identified in the Chinese rice wine during fermentation and storage were 1-propanol, isobutanol, isoamyl
alcohol, butanediol and phenethyl alcohol. The total concentration of them was 131e296 mg/L (Table 2). Among these alcohol, 1- propanol, isobutanol, isoamyl alcohol and phenethyl alcohol were the main alcohols in the samples of Chinese rice wine samples, and this result was in accord with the reports by Luo et al. (2008).