Wine is a drink loved by many people. But what kind of wine is good wine, what kind of wine is a standard wine that is not harmful to health? There are wines we only need to drink once and never want to drink again. But there are also drinks that we want to drink again, even we can hardly buy them. Today, let’s Vinlove visit some famous Vietnamese wine brands that are loved by many people.
Mau Son Wine
Mau Son wine is a specialty of the people of Lang Son province. Wine is made by the hands of the Dao ethnic people living on the top of Mau Son. Mau Son wine is a combination of rice, the climate of Mau Son mountain, the water source of Mau Son mountain, wine yeast of the Dao people and is specially distilled at an altitude of 800-1000m above sea level by traditional methods. Wine yeast is made from more than 30 rare herbs such as: 30-rooted tree, water rope, sweet vine… has the effect of healing wounds, rheumatism, rheumatism, back pain… In 2002, the brand of alcohol Mau Son won the Vietnam Gold Star Award. A bottle of Mau Son wine 29%Vol 500ml costs about 65,000 VND.
Mau Son wine is delicious and clear like spring water, very mild to drink, rich in taste, not too spicy but not too light, with a characteristic, fragrant flavor of leaves and roots of mountainous medicinal plants Lang. Mau Son wine not only carries the heart and efforts of the people here, but also carries the majestic height of Mau Son mountain, the purity of the stream, the suffocating scent of the majestic Mau Son forest.
Dalat Wine
Referring to Da Lat, everyone probably knows that this is a place famous for its beautiful natural scenery, mild and cool climate all year round. Da Lat is also famous for its delicious and attractive dishes. And especially the type of wine extracted from fresh fruits, which are popular grapes, plums, mulberries. That is Dalat wine.
Wine is known as a light wine extracted from fresh fruits, most commonly grapes, plums, mulberries, etc. In particular, mulberry is not the same as the mulberry that people often grow to raise silkworms. Instead of many leaves and few fruits, this type of strawberry gives a lot of fruit, dark blackberries, coiled in tiny bunches. Strawberries are only suitable for growing in cold climates. This is a very strange type of mulberry brought back from France to make wine.
Dalat wine appeared on the consumer market in 1999. Da Lat people like to drink wine to keep their body warm. And then gradually, wine has become an indispensable traditional specialty in Dalat families every Tet to spring. The selling price of a bottle of wine is yellow t is 95,000 VND, depending on type.
Kim Long Wine
Kim Long wine is the name of a wine originating from Kim Long village, Hai Que commune, Hai Lang district, Quang Tri province, commonly known as Xika. It is a well-known liqueur for a long time. In Dai Nam Nhat Thong Chi wrote Kim Long wine in Hai Lang, Quang Tri is the most delicious (book “Dai Nam Nhat Thong Chi”, volume 8, section “Earth products”). The people here have been attached to the traditional craft of making wine for more than 200 years. Kim Long wine is famous for its rich, delicious taste, and is one of the “Four Great Wines ” of Vietnam.
From the 19th century, after surveying, the French colonialists chose Kim Long village to establish a winery. They moved all the traditional wineries of the people into the factory, and at the same time imposed a ban on brewing in the folk to monopolize the supply of alcohol. Kim Long wine at that time was consumed everywhere. When the wine is bottled, it is soaked in cold water for a fixed time before being distributed throughout the country and brought on ships to France, from there to export around the world.
The factor that makes Kim Long wine unique comes from the type of water used to brew rice to cook wine and the natural yeast made by the people themselves. The water is natural well water. Yeast is made from 18 herbs, rice flour, galangal powder, yeast bait, water; Most importantly, the winemaker must know how to regulate the fermentation and drying time so that the yeast is fragrant and not damaged. Kim Long wine is considered the best wine because of its high purity, clarity, sparkling, aromatic, sweet, spicy taste, slightly high alcohol content (from 45 to more than 50 degrees). Gentle and does not cause headaches.https://www.youtube.com/embed/pTnoQ9vKdu4Kim Long wine is the name of a wine originating from Kim Long village,
Na Hang Wine
Corn wine is a precious gift of Na Hang highland district, a district in Tuyen Quang province. To get the delicious taste of wine, it requires going through a lot of processing stages as well as time with meticulousness and patience.
Corn (also known as corn) used to cook must choose the seeds evenly, round, then bring out and incubate with yeast leaves. This is yeast made from more than 20 types of medicinal plants such as Cuong Cuong, curd, wild chili, tongto, lep nam, Nhan Tran, khau thuong, con poong, licorice, cinnamon leaves, etc. Poong is the ingredient that creates the characteristic aroma of Na Hang corn wine.
Each of the above medicinal plants are medicinal herbs that can cure diseases or nourish, strengthen bones, and are very good for human health. Some plants use leaves, some use roots and bark, some use both trees and leaves. These medicinal plants are picked and picked in dry weather, then chopped, pounded, and mixed; Part of it is boiled for water, squeezed and filtered, kneaded with flour, then molded into yeast (the size of a chicken egg), then incubated for 24 hours (depending on temperature, humidity, air at there). When the yeast begins to turn white and fragrant, it is dried until it is about 1/3 of its weight compared to when it has not been brewed. After the fermentation period is the distillation process to produce the specialty corn wine of the Na Hang mountains.
Ha Nang yeast corn wine has a rich, aromatic flavor typical of the smell of corn. Drinking drunk but still feeling smooth, no headache or thirst. When enjoying Na Hang corn wine, you can feel the hardships and hardships of Na Hang people in each grain of corn cooked in this delicious wine. Na Hang wine is chosen by many people as meaningful gifts for relatives and friends. The selling price of a bottle is about 100,000 VND.
Kim Son Wine
Kim Son wine is a long-standing branded wine in Vietnam. Wine is produced from Kim Son village, Ninh Binh province. The water source must be natural well water, produced according to the know-how of the people of the craft villages in Kim Son. Wine usually has a fairly high concentration, transparent, the larger the foam, the higher the alcohol level. Kim Son wine when drinking often feels very fragrant and mellow. One characteristic of this wine is that the longer it is aged, the better it tastes. In particular, Kim Son wine also has a very good effect on health when it is soaked with species such as snakes, geckos, starfish, morning glory, …
Wine yeast is specially prepared from 36 traditional Chinese medicines plus the traditional secret passed down over hundreds of years, creating a wine that is not only famous in the region but also widely known throughout the country as following in the footsteps of Vietnamese people. Ninh Binh’s children leave their homeland to settle in a faraway land. The sweet and spicy taste of the wine makes the drinker feel the sweetness and warmth of the people of the historic ancient capital.
Kim Son wine when drinking feels very fragrant and mellow. A characteristic of wine is that the older it is, the better it tastes. Liquor is made from brown rice, glutinous rice or glutinous rice without white grinding, just browning. Each type of rice produces a different type of wine. Today Kim Son wine has been bottled and sold in the market. The price of a liter of Kim Son wine is 50,000 VND.
Van Village Wine
The name Van village wine has become a unique “brand” and a pride of the people of Bac Giang province for generations. The wine is cooked with yellow glutinous rice and the esoteric yeast of Van village is made from 36 rare and precious Northern medicinal herbs and must be soaked for 72 hours. The wine has a clear color with a mellow flavor that has conquered even the most demanding guests. From father to son, Van village wine branded as “fairy man” is famous all over the country and abroad.
People call Van village wine as the clear and beautiful water like the summer sun that is bottled in a bottle, just a little shake to see it sparkling. Thousands of alcohol toothpicks circled around like a pillar of light. It is known that for wine connoisseurs, just by looking at the wine toothpick, they know how much the wine has reached, whether it is smooth to drink or not. In the 24th Chinh Hoa year (about 1703), King Le Hy Tong ordained this famous product to 4 beautiful characters: Van – Huong – My – Tuu.
For decades, the special flavor of Van village wine has always been chosen by tourists to buy as gifts when passing through Kinh Bac region. The price of a liter of wine in Van village is 35,000 VND – 40,000 VND.
Phu Quoc sim wine
Referring to Phu Quoc, people will immediately think of fragrant drops of fish sauce, sparkling pearls and bottles of sim wine that are loved by many people, right? Sim wine is made from delicious forest myrtle fruits and wine yeast. The wine has a very characteristic taste such as strong aroma, acrid and sweet taste. The colors include white myrtle wine, red myrtle wine, distilled myrtle wine and liquor. In addition, sim wine is also used to treat diseases, help eat well, sleep well, treat gallstones, kidney stones and diarrhea.
Sim wine has a very characteristic taste: strong aroma, acrid and sweet. The colors are white myrtle, red myrtle, distilled myrtle and liquor. Moreover, sim wine is not simply a drink or a wine to sip when sad, but it is also a medicinal wine with many effects; In particular, it is also very good for women’s health, something that few wines can do. In other words, we can evaluate sim wine by two words “perfect”.
With these special characteristics, sim wine is more and more known to more and more people and has obviously become one of the specialties of the beautiful island of Phu Quoc. A bottle of Phu Quoc sim wine costs around 200,000 VND.
Bau Da Wine
Bau Da wine is a traditional wine of Binh Dinh that has been famous for a long time. Legend has it that, many centuries ago, poor people in Cu Lam mound, Bau Da village, Nhon Loc commune, An Nhon district, Binh Dinh province, in the process of finding a livelihood, tried to make wine and use water. underground seepage from the rock in Bau Da village. They could not have imagined that batches of wine cooked from this water source would have a very specific scent and if consumed in moderation, one or two small cups a day would feel very comfortable, pleasant and treat symptoms. back pain, aches and pains, helps the digestive process better, the body is also healthier and stronger. Since then, Bau Da wine has become a “yuu” that is only used to advance the king.
Cooking Bau Da wine requires a lot of meticulousness, it takes about 6 days to produce a batch of wine (a cooking pot). Start complicating right from choosing rice and sticky rice. Each batch of cooking requires about 7.2 kg of rice. After that, the rice is mixed with yeast to put it in a plastic bucket. After 3 days, the rice will have a sweet aroma, add 16 liters of clear well water and then brew it for another 2 days. Then put the rice and wine into the pot to boil for 5 hours, the wine is distilled through a bamboo tube connected from the cooking pot to another condensing pot (there is a container for cooling water for the condenser). A batch after such an elaborate process can only yield 4 liters of pure wine.
Ede Banme Candle Wine
Drinking alcohol is a long-standing habit of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands. Can wine is an indispensable drink in festivals as well as used to entertain distinguished guests. Quite a lot of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands make wine by using sticky rice or white sticky rice cooked into sticky rice, then dried by hot pot to cool, then mixed with yeast. Wine yeast is usually made from galangal root, licorice root and chit root, … dried, then pounded into a powder, and then mixed with rice. Then add a little water and then hold it into a large fist with a cup, incubate until white mold appears. Once fermented, mix more rice husks to make it easier to use the suction rod later.
All are then put into wine jars according to the principle of layering, each layer of ingredients to a layer of rice husk. Finally, the mouth is covered with dried banana leaves. After three days of aging, the wine can be used, however, the longer it is aged, the stronger the taste of the wine will be. Mixing rice husks also requires high skill because the rice husk has the effect that when plugging the rod into the wine jar, the wine rod is still not clogged.
Good wine is a kind of wine with an opaque yellow color like honey, when poured out, the flow is not interrupted, it is slightly sticky to the touch, has an ecstatic, pungent aroma mixed with a characteristic sweetness.
Go Den Wine
Go Den wine is the name of a famous white wine cooked by traditional methods, produced in Go Den, Ben Luc, Long An. This is a type of wine that is specially cooked with locally grown glutinous rice (glutinous rice, glutinous rice, sticky rice with incense, sticky rice from the land, black sticky rice with whole grain, etc.).
The herbs are reduced depending on the weather conditions “four seasons and eight seasons”. The sticky rice is then spread out to cool, the crushed yeast is sprinkled evenly on the sticky rice and put into the crockpot to brew. On the fourth day, people go out to use rainwater or pond water (depending on the season) to settle into the mouth. No matter where the water goes, the sticky rice must ferment until it floats up. Incubate for three more days, then on the seventh day, proceed to distill the wine.The wine distiller is simply two aluminum basins turned upside down to form a bamboo pipe with a pass. At the end of the pass put bottles to collect distilled wine. It is very typical that the fuel used to make wine is usually rice husk.
This wine has a very high alcohol content, sometimes up to 50 degrees of alcohol. Glutinous rice must be the type of sticky rice with round seeds, smooth, opaque white, fragrant, so the sticky rice is selected as incense sticky rice, goose sticky rice. Glutinous rice has just bloomed, not too mushy, burnt, it is even more taboo. In particular, Go Den does not produce wine yeast by itself, but uses Can Giuoc yeast, My Tho yeast, … or Siamese yeast to brew sticky rice. This wine yeast is mostly produced by the Chinese according to an esoteric recipe.
Above are some delicious wines with famous and long-standing brands in Vietnam. I hope this article will help you to know more about the delicious, nutritious and non-toxic wines of the country and be able to enjoy them.