Rice wine is OK - not brilliant, but don't try to pretend it is "wine" - think of it as another beverage altogether and you'll manage it well. Shaanbei-ren like rice wine as well, and I've had it, warmed, in restaurants here.
Best rice wine I had was in Vietnam. I had gone up into the hill-tribes area to the north-west and stayed in a small village. At night half the population popped in and started to celebrate - local dances and plenty of drinking. The rice wine was in a large pottery vat and to drink it we used maybe half-a-dozen long bamboo straws. Knelt beside the vat, drank what we wanted, moved out, sat back, watched others drink, danced, came back for another turn. It was a great night, and one of the dancers gave me her sash that she had worn.
No - the bamboo straws weren't washed between each turn.