KOMPAS.com- Drink wine from salak? It may sound strange, because generally the wine is the drink of fermented grapes. In fact, a small village in Karangasem, Bali, really producing wine from salak. Types of fruit wine indeed drink wine made from fruit other than grapes.
Well, the village of Sibetan, one of the villages in the world that produces fruit wine. The village lies at an elevation of Karangasem Regency is indeed has long been famous for salak agro. Since a few years, people in this village cultivate wine salak.
Tourists who come to the village of Sibetan was able to see the process of making wine salak. Precisely in Banjar Dukuh, salak wine brewery is open for visitors who want to know the process of processing the salak becomes wine.
Nengah Fund, one of the local citizens incorporated in Dukuh CV Lestari who produced "Salacca Wine", a brand of wine salak. Since 1997, he was involved in the process of production of wine of salak.
It also often acts as a guide tour of the salak agro tourism and wine processing salak Village Sibetan. The Fund said the manufacturing process. First of all salak already peeled and slices, placed into the barrel with the yeast, granulated sugar, and mineral water.
"A new process of fermentation for two weeks," he said.
After that, the content inside the barrel pressed up to produce liquid only. Then, the process of filtering and entered into the aging barrels for six months.
After that it was only the process of bottling or filling bottles with wine and closure. After being sealed and labeled, plus Customs seal, salak wine was ready to be marketed.
In addition to wine purple sweet salak, wine is also produced in this place. Alcohol levels are certainly different. The Wine has an alcohol content of salak of 13 percent. Higher than the purple sweet potato wine "only" 4.5 percent.
2 regarding the permission. Since the year 2009, wine production? already getting permission POM. The funds claimed for a month was able to sell 250 thousand bottles of wine and wine of purple sweet salak.
If you bought at the place of production, the price of wine amounting to Rp 100,000 salak closing per bottle. While the wine sweet salak were priced Rp 80,000.
Well, how to taste wine salak? If you're used to drinking wine, maybe the texture taste wine with fine impressed salak after taste that is almost non-existent. Alcohol is so "also". However, the sweetness and the tart salak is also still feels.
The Fund revealed the idea of wine the salak occurs because the village is overgrown salak to the Court of the House having problems if in the harvest season. Abundant harvest caused prices to drop.
Finally the villagers cultivate back salak-salak. Salak was made into a lunkhead, last, and make wine. Mothers village for a creative process salak into vegetables to eat side dishes as well as other dishes.
Access and accommodations
The village of Sibetan which lies about 600 metres from the sea surface with cool. Located in the Regency of Karangasem, access to the village is very easy.
From Candidasa, home to hotels and tourist center crowd in Karangasem, it was not until an hour road trip. The distance is only about 20 kilometers. However, because it is at an altitude of, the streets and snaking uphill.
Meanwhile, over at Candidasa from Ngurah Rai airport takes around two hours road trip. You can rent a car to go to Karangasem Regency. Access to Karangasem is very easy due to the bypass Road, Prof. Dr. Ida Bagus Mantra.
As for accommodations, there is no hotel in the village of Sibetan. However, there is a homestay maintained local people in the village. There are four rooms in the village homestay. Price of stay only Rp 75,000 per night including breakfast.
Alternatively, you can stay at a hotel or a villa in the area of Candidasa. Then take the agro tourism packages in the village of Sibetan. This package includes trekking, touring the village of salak and pick fruits salak, as well as tours to the wine factory of salak.
Therefore, agendakan your next visit to Bali to the village of Sibetan. Then taste the sweetness of the wine of typical Sibetan salak.
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