So much so that Spanish settlers and merchants would refer to it as vino de coco or coconut wine. Some people consider Bahalina and Tuba to be in the same family as Lambanog since they are both ...

LEYTE—“Tuba,” the bittersweet traditional wine of the Waray, has leveled up and is ready for export. A native of Leyte who retired from work in the United States put up a coconut wine ...

“Tuba” is the wine choice of people in Eastern Visayas, the second-biggest coconut-producing region in the country. For centuries, tuba gatherers in the region have been climbing coconut trees ...

there are already two glasses being passed on from one to the next—one glass has a cola drink and the other has the red coconut wine called tuba. It doesn’t need a special occasion.

Tuba, a beverage made from the sap of the coconut palm tree, is commonly served in the muggy, tropical heat of Colima, Mexico’s city of palms. Locals ferment tuba to make fruity coconut vinegar ...

Tapper Eugenio Andaya pours his harvest of coconut sap to be used in a local wine called ‘tuba’, the raw material for Lambanog in Tayabas, Quezon Province, south of Manila. Picture ...

a mangrove that is used to give color and flavor to tuba or coconut wine, as medium. “Tuba is monochromatic. It’s more difficult to use than watercolor (because) it needs a lot of patience ...

Cadet First Class Jestony Lanaja, PMA class of 2013 valedictorian, grew up in a town in Davao del Sur where there was no electricity, and where people gather coconut wine for a living. "My father's ...