If once you visit Bac Giang, enjoy the beauty of Northern Kinh wine – Van Ha wine village. The wine here is not only delicious, but also full of humanity. Wine here has long been famous near and far, used exclusively to advance the King. Let’s visit the wine village with a history of 400 years to get “drunk” together!
History of Van Ha wine village: The famous King’s wine for a time
With a 400-year history, Van Ha village has become a familiar image, even going to the village gate the smell of alcohol has made “falling in love” as if enchanted by a young girl. Not like that, but there is a sentence
“Van Huong beautiful wine is famous in the North Sea.
Victory like Nguyet dawns in the South sky” .
With a 400-year history, Van village’s wine village has become a familiar image
Referring to the history of Van Ha wine village, referring to the “ancestor” of the wine industry, Mrs. Nghi Dinh brought the winemaking profession from China to teach it to the villagers of Van Van. Since she passed the craft of making wine to the village, life has changed. People’s lives are better, poverty is driven away, so they are very grateful and remember Mrs. Nghi Dinh’s merits and respect her as a saint. Together, they set up temples to worship and organize the custom of blood cutting and swearing on the 1st of the month. 4 Lunar New Year. The ceremony is held in the presence of the entire village to instruct the descendants to forever keep the secret of the ancestors, not to bring the profession to the world so as not to lose the job.
Thanks to maintaining the tradition as well as the secret to creating the brand of the winemaking profession, Van Ha village was selected to specialize in bringing wine into the palace for the King to enjoy. Good wine, delicious reputation, even Emperor Le Hy Tong did not save words and bestowed praise with the beautiful word “Van Huong beautiful wine”.
Familiar ingredients create the identity of the wine village
The ingredients that make up the delicious look of “myuu” with a passionate, spicy, and delicious taste, with yeast are brewed from delicious yellow-flowered glutinous rice flowers in Van Xa field. Along with the traditional way of making Van village wine with 35 flavors of traditional Chinese medicine, the mellowness of the wine is carefully distilled and brewed to remove all the shock of the smell of alcohol, the wine has absolutely no preservatives, so human effort Making wine drops is definitely meticulous to give people an unforgettable taste.
The ingredients that make up the delicious look of “beauty wine” with a passionate, spicy, delicious taste with wine yeast are brewed from female glutinous rice flowers.
For wine connoisseurs, just enjoying a glass of wine once is enough time to linger on the beautiful aroma of wine, the sweet feeling of wine is compared to a refreshing fruit cocktail that brings the feeling of drinking more. The more soft the lips are, the more they feel as if they are applied to the lips with a soft fruity lipstick taste. Thanks to the delicious ingredients that are distilled to make a wonderful batch of wine, even if you drink to the point of fainting when you wake up, you still won’t feel a headache.
The art of making wine – The traditional secret of Van Ha village
If it is the original Van Ha village wine, it will have its own art from choosing ingredients to brewing and choosing a good brewing time. Usually made from rice wine, the quality is gradually classified according to each type: Plain rice, glutinous rice, yellow glutinous rice in which the best wine will be made from yellow flower sticky rice and 35 flavors of traditional Chinese medicine mixed until brewed. fermented and cooked into finished products.
For ordinary rice and glutinous rice, it is usually brewed for 3 days, then brought to the kitchen to cook to make a good batch of wine, which people will cook with firewood.
If it is the original Van Ha village wine, it will have its own art from choosing ingredients to brewing and choosing a good brewing time
But with the yellow flower sticky rice, from the stage of choosing ingredients also requires the attention and meticulousness of the cook. It also takes 6 months to brew a batch of wine. The fine wine will have clear water that will transform into a golden wine, only a few to seven degrees, giving off a sweet aroma just smelling the scent is enough to make you mildly intoxicated.
Source: Collected internet.