I am from a Newar family and wine is almost necessary in any occasion but our wine is totally different from others. We have homemade wine and it is very strong as compared to other branded wine. We can find different types of wine around the world. It is said that the older the wine the stronger it gets. There are lots of ways to find out the taste and age of wine. Some people can tell the age by just tasting the wine.
In our culture, wine is consumed on every occasion. We have this custom of giving an boiled egg with fried fish (sometimes egg with fried buffalo meat) and with it our own homemade wine on most of the occasion. This custom of giving egg, fish, and wine is called giving “Sagun.” Mostly it is given to the person when they have their birthdays, on weddings, or any special occasion even when the person is going abroad and when any person is starting a new business. It is considered as good luck.
Most of the people will not like the taste of our homemade wine as it is too strong. Most of the people are beginning to find new taste and mostly branded wines are preferred these days. I was surfing over the internet and I found this website called tv.winelibrary.com and they are considered as a popular internet podcast dedicated to different types of wine. Wine Library TV has lots of episodes featured on their page. If you are in search for different wines available you should watch their videos and you can also find more information about the wine and price details.
by sazon, on September 11 2009 @ 8:22 AM
Why is it important?????????????????????????????
by Amrit Dangol, on September 11 2009 @ 8:31 AM
@sazon: I guess this will answer your question: http://www.dauglydevil.com/2007/05/secret-of-digesting-newari-food.html
I had written this article before which talks about our Newari food and how we digest it thorough a sip of our homemade wine. And also Newari homemade wine is important as it is considered one of the most important ingredients used in Sagun.
by kali, on October 17 2009 @ 7:34 PM
How do you make it? is it made like a normal wine? are there certain ingredients that make it a “newari WINE” ?
Like your articles.
by Amrit Dangol, on October 18 2009 @ 6:08 PM
Hi Ms. Kali. I will soon publish an article about the recipe and the making of “Newari Wine”. I hope you have subscribed to my blog to get my articles updated to you via email.