Not as harsh as the lowlands, summer air in Sapa is much cooler. In this season, the fields of vegetables as well as other fresh fruits and vegetables also come to harvest, Sapa gradually changes from the bright, pink color of peach blossoms, plum blossoms … to green, fresh Young rice and ripe plum color. The scene in Sapa at this time is as beautiful as a paradise, making visitors unable to leave.
Sapa has many delicious plums such as Ta Ly plum, Ta Van plum, yellow plum, red plum, Tam Hoa plum, of which Hau plum is the best plum.
Immersed in the beauty of O Quy Ho in the plum season
Summer is also the time when plum gardens in O Quy Ho area begin in the ripening season. Many tourists come here have to enjoy, passionately do not want to leave when standing in front of a plum garden of all kinds, fruit-bearing fruit.
Plum Sapa is not sweet, the fruit is big and beautiful like the Chinese plum , but it has a sour taste, slightly acrid but sweet on the tip of the tongue, the seeds are small and very seedy, succulent, when ripe, the plum still keeps a little green like flowers, red flesh.
Plum wine in Ta Van is famous in the mountains
The famous plum wine in Sapa is Ta Van plum wine. This strong fruit wine can also be considered a wine. The location at an altitude of over 1,500 meters above sea level is probably a factor in the unique flavor of Ta Van plum. Plums have a reddish-white color, red inside, sweet and sour taste, ripe fruit has a sweet taste and if eaten carefully, it will taste wine.
Next June, the winery buys plums to soak them in a cloudy jar (to avoid light) with white sand sugar (diameter). To do so after 6 months, the plum shrinks, the juice secretes and ferments, has a slightly acrid taste, the juice is dark like amber. Like wine, the longer this yeast goes on, the better it is.
Sweet and fragrant sweet treat with Sapa plum jam
Sapa plum jam is made from plum after separating the seeds and processed through many meticulous steps. The freshly ripe plums are harvested while the stalk remains firm, and the plum peel is covered with white chalk. Plums are carefully selected, filtered out fresh and evenly sized plums (about 10 fruits / kg). Through manual preliminary processing steps, plums will be put into jam-making ovens. Going to Sapa and bringing back a few packages of small, soft, fragrant plum jam as Sapa gifts will be extremely wonderful.
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