Tender coconut wine from Kerala

Marking a first in India's wine industry, a tender coconut wine from Kerala is set to enter the country’s domestic alcobev market. Sebastian P. Augustine, a retired government employee and a farmer from Kerala, has been granted the licence to produce this tender coconut wine.

Augustine owns River Island Winery and will utilise tender coconut along with dragon fruit, mango, banana, jackfruit, and papaya, all sourced from his own farm, to produce the coconut wine. It requires 1,000 tender coconuts and 250 kg of other above-mentioned fruits to produce a 250-liter batch of this wine.