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Introduce the common plum wine and shochu in Korea.
Soju is the most popular wine in Korea, and its color is as transparent as vodka. Korean shochu (Chao:/Soju) is an alcoholic beverage that originated in Korea. The main raw material is rice, usually with wheat, barley or sweet potato. The color of Korean shochu is transparent, and the alcohol content is generally between 40 and 90. The earliest known brewing is around 1300. 1965, in order to alleviate the food shortage, the Korean government banned the brewing of shochu. Since then, the main production method of shochu has become to dilute alcohol with water and add spices. Today, there are still a lot of cheap shochu brewed in this way. The government stipulates that the dilution of shochu should not exceed 35 degrees. Because of its lower price compared with other alcoholic beverages, shochu has become the most common alcoholic beverage in Korea.

Like China, shochu distilled liquor on the Korean peninsula may have been introduced and popularized from the Persian region of Central Asia conquered by Mongols in the Yuan Dynasty. True dew's authentic identity should be the burning hairpin that originated in China in the Yuan Dynasty, and it is generally believed that it was introduced to the Korean peninsula in the late period of BC 1300. Burning rice wine is shochu. The original meaning of "rice wine" refers to the wine made from grain after three times of distillation, which looks like dew, so it is also called "dew wine". In the history of Korea, shochu has long been listed as a luxury high-grade wine, banned by the people and even cited as a prescription by the Korean royal family. Cheap truffle wine is distilled from potatoes, and its alcohol content is about 19.5%~20%, which is cheaper than drinks, so Koreans are not soft.

Every household will brew plum wine in plum fruit season. Put the same amount of plum, rock sugar, favorite soju or brandy into a clean bottle. You can drink it in half a year! Its alcohol concentration is not high, and it is quite good with grilled fish, sashimi or pancakes! Most plums in the snow can be found in China, as well as Baohai and Yuquan. And plum wine with gold foil. It is said that gold foil is added to skin care products, which greatly enhances the maintenance effect and tastes better. There is plum wine in the snow. But in terms of flavor, it is not as good as CHOYA plum wine in Japan. CHOYA is brewed with brandy, giving off a strong aroma of plum wine, and its quality is by no means comparable to that of spiced plum wine.

It turns out that the true dew is said to be distilled from pure water, barley, a secret recipe brewed for 70 years and filtered by bamboo charcoal. For 30 years in a row, the record of being the first in South Korea's domestic market is true dew. Therefore, Zhenlu is praised by Koreans as the representative of orthodox national wine and national wine. With a history of 80 years, its position in the Korean shochu industry can be comparable to that of China Moutai.