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The People

Guangdu Cun

A village of roughly a thousand people in the hills of Jiangshan, where surplus and imperfect fruit has been distilled into spirit for generations. MiKo is built on that family recipe.

Villagers of Guangdu Cun looking out over the valley fields.
The old stone arch bridge leading into Guangdu Cun.

The Village

Guangdu Cun (广渡村)

A village of roughly a thousand people in the hills of Jiangshan. Here, surplus and imperfect fruit has been distilled into spirit for generations.

Nothing about the recipe was invented for a label; it was already the way things were done.

The founder’s uncle and family gathered around the table in Guangdu Cun.

The Family

A jug from an uncle

Our founder returned to his ancestral village, Guangdu Cun. An uncle poured homemade kiwi spirit from a three-gallon jug. That first taste became the idea for MiKo.

The family recipe the brand is built on came from that table, not from a lab.

A faded blue dragon mural painted inside the village pagoda.

The Heritage

Ritual, and the Southern Confucius

Quzhou, the region around Jiangshan, is the seat of the Southern Confucius family. Ritual — li (礼) — is the quiet machinery by which an ordinary act becomes a meaningful one.

A pour becomes a welcome; a glass becomes a gesture.

Glowing paper lanterns at a night festival.

The Founder

Bringing it home

Placeholder: the founder’s story — the return to Guangdu Cun, the decision to bottle the family spirit, and why the fruit deserved to carry its own name again.

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