Lao Cai is a famous land with many good kinds of wine such as: San Lung wine (made from paddy), Bac Ha wine(made from corn). It can't be fail to mention Fructus Crataegi wine (made from a kind of apple, can be called wild apple). It may be more famous than above kinds of wine. It is famous because of its characterized flavor and sweetness of wild.
This is a rustic wine but it is also very special. This kind of apple is combinated from the flavor of forest, wind, sun, rain so it has sour taste, sweet taste, bitter taste. Wild apple has white flower in March and April, it has fruit in the autumn. So, they pick them down and brew with wine in 1 month upward. Initially, drinking this wine, you will feel as you are drinking a carbonated beverage but the more you drink, the more you feel a psychedelic that makes you as floating on clouds.
Besides, the above name, this kind of wine has another name, it is love wine. Why is it called that?. An old woman told:"The young couple like drinking this wine but they don't tell words of love, after drinking, they will promise to each other that they will love forever and share flavors of the life as flavors in wine."
Moreover, this kind of wild apple helps antihypertensive, lower cholesterol, coronary artery relaxation, the myocardial contractility, inhibits platelet aggregation process, sedative, calming, contribute up to physiological balance and prevent complications of hypertension. With the effects like that, wild apple wine is not only a good wine but also a good medicine and "a love medicine". If you travel to Lao Cai, don't forget to buy this kind of apple to soak in wine.
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