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Philippine wine or Filipino wine are various wines produced in the Philippines. They include indigenous wines fermented from palm sap , rice , job's tears , sugarcane , and honey ; as well as modern wines mostly produced from various fruit crops.
According to Blair and Robertson, Magellan first came upon coconut wine (tuba), or wine made out of coconut palm, and its distilled variety. [3] A record describing how early Cebuanos made tuba states: “They bore a hole into the heart of the said [coconut] palm at the top called palamito, from which distils a liquor which resembles white mist.
The museum features exhibits featuring the liquor distillery and bottle-making processes, and a section dedicated to the distillery's flagship brand White Castle Whiskey. It also hosts 120 bottles of Destileria Limtuaco's products, including its first product Siok Hoc Tong , with the oldest bottle dating back to the 1920s.
In 1957, it acquired the trademark rights to Kulafu to launch Vino Kulafu Chinese herbal wine. [2] The company was renamed La Tondeña Distillers, Inc. (LTDI) in 1987 after being acquired by San Miguel Corporation from the Palanca family. The company then adopted the present corporate name Ginebra San Miguel, Inc. on March 7, 2003. [3]
Tubâ could be further distilled using a distinctive type of still into a palm liquor known as lambanóg (palm spirit) and laksoy (nipa). During the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines, lambanog and laksoy were inaccurately called vino de coco ("coconut wine") and vino de nipa ("nipa wine"), respectively, despite them being distilled liquor.
Alcoholic drinks were prohibited by law, but the production of alcohol, wine in particular, seems to have thrived. [88] Wine was a subject for many poets, even under Islamic rule, and many khalifas used to drink alcoholic beverages during their social and private meetings.
Laksoy (also spelled lacsoy), is a traditional Filipino distilled nipa palm liquor.It is derived from tubâ (palm toddy) made from nipa palm sap that has been aged for at least 48 hours.
John Harvey & Sons is a brand (trading name) of a wine and sherry blending and merchant business founded by William Perry in Bristol, England in 1796.The business within 60 years of John Harvey joining had blended the first dessert sherry, dubbed 'cream sherry', which has changed little since 1880 and is known as Harveys Bristol Cream.