May is called Family Month in Korea, filled with family-oriented holidays and anniversaries. Celebrating something can be a great fun especially when you select a gift for someone. We’d like to introduce you to some perfect celebration gift items today—traditional Korean liquors using flowers.

Seoul Makgeolli Pink

Pink azaleas and prickly pears present the ultimate scent of spring flowers

Introducing Seoul Makgeolli Pink – a pink-hued rice wine filled with the fragrance of spring blossoms. The packaging resembles a glass bottle capturing the essence of spring. Seoul Makgeolli Pink is made with azaleas and baeknyeoncho, a type of prickly pear. Baeknyeoncho, a species of cactus, provides a pure sweetness with hints of tropical acidity.

Seolhong

Distilled liquor using red camellias

Seolhong is a type of liquor made from fermented Jeju camellia flowers. The process begins with the creation of fermented camellia wine, to which undiluted camellia solution is added to enhance the fragrance. The mixture then undergoes batch and ambient pressure distillation using a single-pot still under 1 atmosphere. Seolhong also uses oak charcoal to filter out impurities and preserve the fragrance.

Geumgun Flower Liquor Acacia Wine

The essential fragrance of acacias

Acacia is a seasonal flower that blooms in late spring. It represents beautiful friendship and chaste love. Acacia wine is made of 70% acacia extract, which captures the essential fragrance of the flower. When warmed, the true flavor of the wine is revealed. When mixed with sparkling water, its refreshing quality shines through.

Soola Maehwaju

Sweet gwahaju filled with the flavors of maehwa plum blossoms

Soola Maehwaju is a wine made from maehwa plum blossoms and uses glutinous rice from Yeoju, adding the grain's sweetness to the wine. It has a soft and highly drinkable taste, thanks to the fresh and lovely fragrance of the flower and the sweetness of the glutinous rice.

Bee Waltz Rosie 

A sweet waltz by roses and honey

The brewery raises bees and harvests acacia honey. When you ferment the acacia honey, you get mead. By adding rose petals to the mead, you get Rhodomel, also known as rose flower mead. Bee Waltz Rosie is the first Rhodomel brewed in Korea. When you open the bottle, you will instantly smell roses - a rich scent created by infusing organically grown roses in the mead. First, you will taste the clean and light essence of honey, followed by a slight acidity. You will also experience the soft scent of flowers with every breath you take.

*Drinking too much alcohol can cause stroke, memory loss, or dementia. Dringking alcohol during pregnancy can increase the risk of birth defects.