Cassia wine as (Modern Standard Mandarin: "guì"). Cassia wine Cassia wine, osmanthus wine, or Kuei Hua Chen Chiew is an alcoholic Chinese drink, sometimes sweetened, produced from weak baijiu and flavored with sweet osmanthus flowers. It is distilled, but typically has an alcohol content less than 20%. While the plant itself is sometimes associated with cinnamon, the blossoms' lactones impart a flavor closer to apricots and peaches. Owing to the timing of the plant's blossoms, cassia wine is the traditional choice for the "reunion wine" drunk on the Mid-Autumn or Mooncake Festival. From the homophony between and (meaning "long" in the sense
Via Cassia of several Roman bridges along the road, including the "Ponte San Lorenzo" and "Ponte San Nicolao". The road was used as part of the individual road race cycling route for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Via Cassia The Via Cassia was an important Roman road striking out of the "Via Flaminia" near the Milvian Bridge in the immediate vicinity of Rome and, passing not far from Veii, traversed Etruria. The "Via Cassia" passed through Baccanae, Sutrium, Volsinii, Clusium, Arretium, Florentia, Pistoria, and Luca, joining the "Via Aurelia" at Luna. The "Via Cassia" intersected other important roads. At mile 11