Basi Maria is a semi-sweet sugar cane-based wine made from sugar cane grown in the hilly region of Ilocos Norte. It is fermented with cabernet sauvignon grapes and trebbiano. Made from sugar cane stalks grown in our farm in Batac, Ilocos Norte, this beverage was aged together with the grapes between between 6 to 12…
Author: Sigrid Salucop
Why There Is A Diablo In Basi Del Diablo
In the year 1786, the Spanish conquistadors expropriated Basi production and sales in the northern part of the Philippines because it was a big competitor against their own wines. The expropriation effectively banned private manufacture of sugar cane wine in the Ilocos region. By 1807, more than two decades later, the angry northerners marched to…
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