In SIWSE 2021, the global news networkAVING News selected companies to receive the BEST OF Wines & Sprits Expo2021 award.

For this award, AVING News selectedoutstanding products based on product technology, innovation, marketability,design, and audience response. The companies will get separate news articles sothat they can utilize it, and the news will also be posted in English.

In this year's SIWSE, all kinds of liquorranging from wine to beer, spirits, and traditional liquor, as well as relatedfoods such as cheese and olives, accessories, equipment, transportation,packaging, and related equipment were displayed in one venue.

SIWSE is the only comprehensive liquorexhibition in Korea and attracts more than 25,000 buyers and visitors everyyear. Also, it provides an exhibition platform where various products coveringthe entire liquor industry are showcased and promoted directly to the buyers.

Also, by considering the characteristics ofthe liquor industry, which must respond sensitively to rapidly changing trends,the SIWSE will hold systematic alcoholic beverage events and seminars for thegrowth of related businesses. Through this event, related workers can find aspace where they can identify industry trends and conduct effective businessmeetings based on them to develop new market channels.

The selected companies for BEST OF Wines& Sprits Expo 2021 are as follows.

△ Wellfish △Gayangjujak △ Ivy AgriculturalCooperative

Wellfish introduces Baked Pollack Skin Chips, a pub snack made with pollack skins!

Under the slogan “FROM THE SEA, IT'S BETTERFOR YOU,” we are developing snacks by using fish, without having to worry aboutanything else. The company began this business to solve the problems ofproducers for innovation in the fishery industry, so the first priority was tomake products by using fish. Also, it is collaborating with the FisheriesDepartment of Tongyeong-si to make new products.

The company is running a wellness fishsnack brand DRUNKEN FISH. At the exhibition, Baked Pollack Skin Chips, firstsnack from DRUNKEN FISH was exhibited. It was made by roasting pollack skins.

This baked version of pollack skins wasmade for the consumers who feel overwhelmed by pollack skin that is fried. Itcomes in three flavors: original, wasabi, and spicy.

Wellfish CEO Jeong said, “We plan togradually release anchovy snack, dumplings, sundae, eel, and we aim to advanceoverseas through the development of highly processed foods. Like the secondfried seaweed snack, we want to make products that can enhance thecompetitiveness of fish produced in Korea. Furthermore, we are planning to makevarious products so that many people can enjoy seafood at home comfortably byreaching to rice side dishes or various HMR types.”

Gayangjujak introduces liquor long-aged in low-temperature loess aging room!

Gayangjujak started as a member of atraditional liquor club of the Gunpo Daeyami Town Cooperative, and opened abrewery as part of an economic project for a sustainable town community. It isthe first house traditional liquor specialty store established in Korea aftersystemizing house makgeolli by revising the liquor tax law in February 2016. Itis brewing Korean liquor in a traditional way. The company has acquired license to make unrefined, medicinal, andgeneral liquor, and is now selling the liquor.

“Suamju,” the liquor the company exhibitedthis time, was named after the second highest peak in Surisan Mountain. Thetaste of alcohol fermented for seven days is aged for three months in the loessaging room maintained at 5 degrees all year round. The aged liquor tastes likevarious fruits, and it has a dry taste.

Also, the company introduced Aloi series,its soju distilled and aged with Aronia fruit. All the distilled liquor used inAloi are made by hand, and the company used locally grown Aronia.

Alcohol tends to absorb surrounding odors,and to prevent miscellaneous odors from mixing with alcohol, a low-temperatureloess aging room was created. Loess help yeast to settle in well, and maintaina consistent taste. Even if yeast is not added to alcohol, the loess storageroom takes care of that. In the beginning of the business, yeast was notsettled in properly and the taste was uneven, so yeast was added to the alcoholto adjust the taste, but over time, the environment has been stabilized andyeast is no longer needed.

Ivy Agricultural Cooperative introduces Honeymoon Wine made with honey!

Honeymoon Wine presented at this exhibitioncan be used as an aperitif to stimulate appetite. Also, it goes well with alltypes of food, whether it is Korean or Western. Honeymoon Wine is a traditionalwine that reproduces fermented wine and has a low alcohol content. Its maintarget is female consumers.

Honeymoon Wine was launched in 2011 andcommercialized in 2012. It received the grand prize in The Sool Fair in thefirst year of launching. Also, it has been selected as Korea's Best Wine GoldPromise Wine Award and as an outstanding product from Seoul Awards. The companyachieved secondary industrialization by fermenting and processing natural honeywithout additives.

Thanks to this, the company is alsoactively entering the global market. It is exporting to Singapore and Chinanow, and is even looking for exporting to Europe, the region where wineoriginated from.

Hosted by Korea Int’l Exhibition Co, the17th Seoul International Wines & Sprits Expo 2021 is Korea's only largestliquor exhibition held in Seoul, and is known as the best platform for liquorsales, promotion and business expansion. Along with systematic liquor sideevents and seminars, Seoul International Wines & Spirits Expo was heldconcurrently with the International Beer and Equipment Industry Exhibition andWorld Traditional Liquor Festival.

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