Song Cai Amaro May

Mẩy amaro bitters is a collaborative project between Sông Cái distillery and Lý Lở Mẩy, (Cô Chạn) a Red Dao medicine woman from Tả Phin, Lào Cai.

the Red Dao are renown for their deep expertise in medicine and medicinal botany. Dịa tiu historically has been used as an herbal medicinal tincture/liqueur to treat muscle aches and digestive issues. Infamous to the recipe is the use of poppy, the same flower used to make opium. The recipe historically uses over a dozen variety of wild forest botanicals, from roots, bark, to leaves, and dried seeds, all selected for medicinal qualities.