From familiar, rustic fruits, with their own efforts in research and brand building, many Vietnamese farmers have successfully produced unique, healthy wine products that have been well received by the market.

1. Dragon Fruit Wine

Seeing the price of dragon fruit plummet, Mr. Tran Quoc Trong - a farmer in Long Tri commune, Chau Thanh district, Long An province - found a way to make wine from red dragon fruit. After many years of experimenting, his product appeared on the market and was well received.

With an investment capital of several billion VND from 2011 until the factory opened in mid-2013, Mr. Trong experienced hundreds of failures. However, with passion and perseverance, he has maintained and developed the results as today. Currently, he produces 10,000 liters a year and has many foreign partners asking to import this product. Some Middle Eastern countries currently need more than 1 million liters per year but require the alcohol content to be reduced to about 5-6 degrees.

Not only Mr. Trong, recently, a company based in Ho Chi Minh City also launched red dragon fruit wine products on the market. According to the company's leader, in addition to conquering the domestic market, this year the company will find its way to difficult markets such as the US and Japan.

Dragon fruit wine.

2. Plum wine

After many years of witnessing the plums of his hometown Can Tho having to be continuously dumped and sold at low prices, old farmer Nguyen Phu Tia (Sau Tia), a resident of Tan Loc Islet, Tan Loc Ward, has pooled all his money and devoted his heart to researching and producing a unique wine, plum wine.2. Plum wine

Sharing with VnExpress.net, Mr. Tia said that the research process to make plum wine was extremely difficult. He experimented hundreds of times, changing the brewing and yeasting methods for a whole year. At the same time, he bought many types of wine, both foreign and domestic, to compare and find the best recipe. Each time he drank like that, he gained a lot of experience, but the first product was still criticized for its harsh taste and difficulty to drink.

Not discouraged, Mr. Tia continued to prepare and discovered that by introducing yeast to the fermented plums with fermented malt, and adjusting the appropriate ratio, he would produce a plum wine that after only 5 months had a surprisingly delicious taste. Not only that, his wine did not cause headaches when consumed in large quantities. For each batch of wine, he had to spend up to 7 days distilling, bottling, and canning. The work was hard, but his passion still burned brightly. His products were introduced at fairs and sold widely not only locally but also in many regions of the country.

Plum wine.

3. Ninh Thuan grape wine

As a specialty fruit of Ninh Thuan region, grapes are increasingly used to make many unique drinks, in which wine made from grapes is one of the products produced and traded by many farmers in this land. 3. Ninh Thuan grape wine

The process of making grape wine is much simpler than many other fruits, so this product is very popular in the market. The selling price of these products in the market is only 50,000-100,000 VND for 750ml. Tet is the time when this product sells quite well.

The owner of a facility in Ninh Phuoc (Ninh Thuan) said that during this Tet holiday, orders usually increase 2-3 times compared to normal, with many orders of several hundred bottles. Customers mainly buy them as gifts.

Ninh Thuan grape wine

Mulberry (also known as Vietnamese mulberry) is dark red or purple-black when ripe. This fruit is rich in nutrients and has the effect of nourishing the liver and kidneys, nourishing blood, eliminating wind, reducing thirst, promoting blood circulation... so it has the effect of curing many types of diseases. 4. Dalat mulberry wine

Thanks to the benefits of this fruit, many establishments in Ho Chi Minh City and Da Lat make wine from mulberry fruit.

Mr. Hanh, the owner of a mulberry wine establishment in Thu Duc (HCMC), said he has been selling this wine for more than 3 years. At first, he only made a few bottles to test and give to friends, but gradually many people ordered it.

"Every month I sell about a few hundred bottles. This type is also quite popular as a gift during Tet. However, there are not always raw materials to process, so when the season comes, I make a large quantity to store and sell all year round," Mr. Hanh shared.

4. Phu Quoc Sim Wine

Phu Quoc Sim

Phu Quoc Sim Wine is considered one of Vietnam's finest wines, fermented from ripe sim fruits.

When the sim is harvested, choose the dark ripe fruits, pick them clean, remove the stems, then crush them and put them in a wooden barrel to ferment with sugar. After about 2 months, it can be drunk. But the barrels of wine that have been soaked for a year or more are considered excellent, with a very fragrant and strong taste.

After the wine is completely fermented, it will produce a pink wine, with a spicy, sour, sweet taste like grape wine with an alcohol concentration of about 11.5%.

The origin of this sim wine is also quite special. The story comes from a chance occasion, the people on Phu Quoc island said that in the past, there were some people from Dak Lak who came to visit, when they saw the vast sim forests, they felt sorry because there were so many sims but they were wasted and said that, since ancient times, the ethnic people in the Central Highlands knew how to use sim wine to treat some simple diseases such as joint pain after trekking through the forest, climbing slopes. Then they enthusiastically instructed the people here how to press, soak, ferment sim fruit. Since then, sim wine has gradually developed, with many large production facilities being established and becoming an indispensable specialty gift for tourists to the pearl island.

According to VnExpress