Salucop Group Inc.

Salucop Group Inc. is rated 3 out of 5 in the category food & beverages. Read and write reviews about Salucop Group Inc.. Salucop Group Inc. is a family-owned corporation based in the Philippines. It is the producer of Basi del Diablo Exotic Wines and other alcoholic beverages. In the year 1786, the Spanish conquistadors expropriated Basi production and sales in the northern part of the Philippines because it was a big competitor against their own wines. The expropriation effectively banned private manufacture of sugar cane wine in the Ilocos region. By 1807, more than two decades later, the angry northerners marched to the present-day town of Piddig, Ilocos Norte to engage their Spanish conquistadors in battle. With Spain taking almost everything – their freedom, their beliefs – the 21-year-long sugar cane wine issue became the tipping point. The Basi Revolt resulted to a bloody battle that spread to nearby towns. A lot of lives were lost on both sides until Spanish troops marched to the north to quell the rebellion. 99 years later, a young man named Gabriel decided to get some Basi from the local market an hour walk away from his parent’s home in Batac. It was 1906, and 333 years of Spanish rule was already over. Gabriel bought some sugar cane wine from one of the local vendors and tasted it before he went home. The Spanish mestizo was disappointed. His family home, surrounded by sugar cane fields, was sitting on a hilly region of the northern province. Seeing the sugar cane around him, Gabriel decided that he will make his own Basi. He took some bark, seeds, and java plum to put a little flavour into the semi-sweet concoction. So good was his wine that the townsfolk started raiding his backyard where the wine were kept. To keep thieves at bay, the family decided to spread rumours of a demon lurking in the estate. Since then, no one dared to steal Gabriel's wine. This is where Gabriel's sweet concoction got its name --Basi del Diablo. Gabriel is the great grandfather of the small company's CEO and President.