High performance liquid chromatography method was employed to determine target compounds in herbal wine. These compounds included 6-gingerol, osthole, tanshinone IIA, glycyrrhizin, liquiritin, cinnamic acid, ferulic acid, paeoniflorin, gentiopicroside, cinnamic aldehyde, schizandrin and loganin. Each of them was from eight different formulations of herbal wine. Separations were effected using a C18 column by gradient elution with different ratio of (0.03∼0.1%) phosphoric acid and acetonitrile. The linear coefficients of regression equations were all above 0.9990 with the recoveries of eight samples of 93.2∼114.5%. The limitations of quantitation and detection were also reported.