Phú Lộc rice wine

Rượu Phú Lộc is a spirit distilled from sticky rice fermented with a traditional strain of yeast. Traditionally most of the villagers were engaged in the production of rice spirit, and pig breeding. The residue of the distillation process was fed to the pigs and this often created the primary income of the villagers. According to village historians distillation was introduced to the villagers by a Chinese woman probably around the 18th century.