Palm Wine

Palm wine comes from the fermented sap of palm trees such as date palm, raffia palm, and coconut palm. Fermented palm sap can be used to make palm wine, palm spirit, and palm vinegar.

Palm wine is drunk across the tropical world, often as part of traditional celebrations or poured on the ground as libations during cultural rituals. It is known by many names - Togo: déha; Senegal: bunuk; Ghana: doka, nsafufuo; Sierra Leone: poyo; South Africa: ubusulu; Gabon: toutou; Costa Rica: vino de coyot; Cameroon: mimbo, etc,.

Palm wine is rich in nutrients including vitamins A, C and B complex, iron, copper, magnesium, calcium, and zinc. In West Africa, new mothers may drink palm wine to help boost breast milk production.

Palm wine has a high-sugar content, so ferments quickly, and has a short shelf life. It is mildly alcoholic at around 4% ABV. Palm is often made in small batches and sold local to where it is produced. To make palm wine, you need a particular type of the bacteria Saccharomyces, which is common to the areas where the palm trees grow.

We bought our Nigerian palm wine online from a UK supplier. We have also found it for sale at Glory Afro Caribbean in Brixton Market.