Top 12 Most Famous Specialized Wine Brands in Vietnam

Corn wine is a precious gift from the highland district of Na Hang, a district of Tuyen Quang province. To obtain the drops of wine with delicious flavor, it requires going through many processing stages as well as time with meticulousness and patience.

Corn (or maize) used for cooking must select even, round grains, then dehusked and fermented with leaf men. This is a type of men made from more than 20 types of precious medicinal plants such as cán cuông, khúc khắc, ớt rừng, tẳng tó, lép nặm, nhân trần, khau thương, đứa poóng, cam thảo, lá quế,… Among them, the đứa poóng tree is the main component that creates the characteristic aroma for Na Hang corn wine.

Each of the above-mentioned medicinal plants is medicines or nutritious, strengthens bones and joints, very good for human health. Some plants use leaves, some use roots, bark, some use both stems and leaves. These medicinal plants are picked and harvested in dry weather, then chopped, crushed, mixed evenly; a part is boiled to get water, squeezed, filtered to mix with flour then knead into men (as big as a chicken egg), then fermented for 24 hours (depending on temperature, humidity, and air at that time). When the men begin to turn pale white, fragrant, they are dried until about 1/3 of the weight compared to before fermentation. After the fermentation period, it is the distillation process to produce the Na Hang mountain specialty corn wine.

Na Hang corn leaf men wine has a rich, fragrant, characteristic flavor of corn. It is intoxicating to drink but still feels smooth, not headache or thirsty.

Bau Da Wine is a traditional wine of Binh Dinh that has been famous for a long time. It is said that, from many centuries ago, the poor people in Cu Lam hill, Bau Da village, Nhon Loc commune, An Nhon town, Binh Dinh province, in the process of finding a livelihood, tried to cook wine and use the groundwater seeping from the bau da stone in Bau Da village. They could not have imagined that the batches of wine made from this water source would have a very characteristic aroma and if drunk moderately, one to two small cups per day, it would feel very comfortable, pleasant, and could treat back pain, fatigue, help digestion better, and make the body healthier and stronger. Therefore, Bau Da Wine has become a kind of 'royal wine' only used for kings.

Making Bau Da Wine requires a lot of meticulousness, it takes about 6 days to produce a batch of wine (a pot). It starts with the complex process of selecting rice and glutinous rice. Each batch requires about 7.2 kg of rice. Then, the rice is mixed with fermented malt to put into a plastic bucket, after 3 days the rice will give off a strong fragrance, add 16 liters of well water and ferment for another 2 days. Then, the wine rice is put into a pot to boil for 5 hours, the wine is distilled through bamboo tubes connecting from the cooking pot to another condensing pot (with a tool containing cooling water for the condensing pot). After such a meticulous process, only 4 liters of pure wine can be produced from one batch.

Kim Son Wine is a type of wine distilled from glutinous rice and Chinese herbal medicine. The water source must be natural well water, produced according to the secret of the people in the craft villages of Kim Son. The wine is often quite high in alcohol content, transparent, and the larger the wine bubbles, the higher the alcohol content. Kim Son Wine when drunk is often very fragrant and gentle. A characteristic of this type of wine is that the longer it is kept, the better it tastes. Especially, Kim Son Wine also has very good health effects when soaked with species such as snakes, geckos, sea stars, leeches,...

The wine malt is specially formulated from 36 Chinese herbs combined with the ancestral secret recipe passed down for hundreds of years, creating a type of wine that is not only famous in the region but also increasingly known throughout the country as following the footsteps of Ninh Binh people leaving their homeland to start a new life far away. The sweet, spicy taste of the wine makes the drinker feel the sweetness, warmth, and deep affection of the people of the ancient capital land.

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Wine is known as a light wine extracted from fresh fruits, most commonly grapes, plums, raspberries, etc. Especially, raspberry wine is not like the raspberries people usually grow to feed silkworms. Instead of many leaves and few fruits, this type of raspberry yields a lot of small, dark, twisted berries. Raspberry wine is only suitable for cultivation in regions with cold climates. This is a very rare type of raspberry brought from France to make wine.

People in Da Lat really enjoy drinking wine, perhaps to keep warm in a region that is foggy and cold all year round. Over time, wine has been considered one of the indispensable traditional specialties in Da Lat families, especially on every Tet holiday.

Drinking can wine is a long-standing habit of the people of the Central Highlands ethnic groups. Can wine is an indispensable drink in festivals as well as used to treat esteemed guests. Many Central Highlands ethnic groups make wine by using sticky rice or white rice cooked into sticky rice, then dried in the sun to cool before mixing with yeast for fermentation. The yeast is often made from ginger, licorice root, and Chinese chives,... dried, then ground into powder, and mixed with rice. Then a little water is added and kneaded into a large ball with a bowl, fermented until white mold appears, which is successful. When it has fermented, more bran is mixed in for easier sucking when using the can.

All of this is then put into a can according to the layering principle, with one layer of ingredients followed by one layer of bran. Finally, the mouth of the can is sealed with dried banana leaves. The wine is ready after three days, but the longer it is fermented, the stronger the taste. Mixing the bran also requires high skills because the bran acts to prevent the can from getting stuck when inserting the tube into the can, the can wine still flows smoothly.

Good wine is a type of wine that is cloudy yellow like honey, when poured out, the flow is not interrupted, touching it feels slightly sticky, with a dizzying aroma, spicy mixed with a characteristic sweetness.

Phu Le is a purely agricultural commune in Ba Tri district, Ben Tre province. Phu Le is also known for a famous local product. That is Phu Le wine, a strong, fragrant wine, though heavy, but does not cause headaches.

The process of making wine in Phu Le is similar to other places. First, cook the glutinous rice, do not polish it white, the stickier the better. For one giạ of sticky rice, cook with about 20 liters of sweet well water, wait until the water boils, then pour the rice in, then use a cooking spoon to stir a few times, when it is almost dry, cover the pot, remove some coals, about an hour, it will be cooked, called rice wine. Pour the rice onto a mat, spread it thinly to cool quickly. Then add the yeast and mix well.

After the rice is cooked, mix it with the yeast, then put it in a closed container for seven days and seven nights before continuing to put it in the still. The fire must use the husk of the seasonal rice, the flame must be moderate, not too large or too small, so that the wine is not bitter, not 'shouting'. The wine that comes out of the kiln is not used immediately but must be buried in the ground for a hundred days to absorb the yin and yang of the heavens and earth for the wine to be truly 'mellow'.

Phu Le wine is delicious thanks to 4 factors: one is yeast, two is the well water of the region, three is the sticky rice grown on this land, and four is the rice fermentation buckets that have been around for hundreds of years.

Gò Đen Wine is the name of a famous white wine brewed according to traditional methods, produced in Gò Đen, Bến Lức, Long An. This is a special type of wine brewed with the local glutinous rice varieties (fatty rice, mù u rice, fragrant rice, earth rice, black coal-like rice grains...).

This wine has a very high alcohol content, sometimes up to 50% alcohol by volume. The rice used to make the wine must be round, sticky, and evenly opaque white, with a fragrant aroma, so the rice selected is fragrant rice, goose rice. Rice should be cooked but not too soft or too hard. Particularly, Gò Đen does not produce its own wine yeast but uses Can Giuoc yeast, My Tho yeast,... or Xiêm yeast to ferment the rice. This wine yeast is mostly produced by the Chinese according to a secret recipe.

The medicinal herbs are adjusted according to the 'four seasons, eight times' weather conditions. The rice is then spread out to cool, finely ground yeast is evenly sprinkled over the rice, and then put into fermentation jars. The fermentation process usually lasts for 3 days. On the fourth day, rainwater or pond water (depending on the season) is carefully poured into the jars, only enough to cover the rice, and the rice should be fully submerged. The bottom of the jar should not have any rice grains left. It is fermented for three more days, and on the seventh day, the wine is distilled. The simple distillation equipment is two aluminum buckets stacked to form an 'o' with a bamboo tube handle. At the end of the handle, a bottle is placed to collect the distilled wine. A very distinctive feature is that the fuel used to cook the wine is usually rice husk.

When mentioning Phu Quoc, people often think of the homeland of enchanting scenery, fragrant fish sauce, shimmering pearls, and now also the charming taste of Sim wine.

Sim wine has a very distinctive taste: rich aroma, slightly bitter, and sweet. The colors include white sim wine, red sim wine, distilled sim wine, and liquor. Furthermore, Sim wine is not just a simple drink or a wine to sip when sad, but also a medicinal wine with many benefits, especially for women's health, something few types of alcohol can claim. In other words, we can describe sim wine with two words: 'perfect'.

With these special characteristics, Sim wine is becoming more well-known and has naturally become one of the specialties of the beautiful island of Phu Quoc.