Spirit
Soju
Soju is Korea's clear, colourless national spirit, a clean and faintly sweet drink that is by volume the best-selling spirit in the world; traditionally distilled from rice and other grains, most modern green-bottle soju is a lightly sweetened dilution of neutral spirit made from tapioca, sweet potato or barley, poured neat from the bottle at the Korean table.
BalancedAlcoholic
At a glance
Signature
Clean & Grain
Ethanol
Strength
Alcoholic
by taste profile
Clean, mild and faintly sweet, modern green-bottle soju is near-neutral in aroma with only a whisper of steamed grain and a soft ethanol lift, and a slightly viscous, water-clear body that turns rounded and gently sweet on a short, smooth finish — deliberately easy to drink neat in cold shots. Traditional high-proof rice soju is fuller and more fragrant, with a soft cereal sweetness, a hint of fruit and a warming heat that the diluted everyday style trades away for smoothness.
Taste balance
BitternessSmooth
SmoothBitter
StrengthMedium
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