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Brown rice, fermented slowly in clay pots and aged for more than three years — vinegar made the way it was before speed mattered. Chosanjung ferments pesticide-free Baekjinju brown rice whole, bran and germ included, into a deep, complex vinegar with a bright 6-degree acidity and no added sugar. Use it anywhere you'd want a fine, layered vinegar: sushi rice, pickles, or a bright, complex dressing.
Brown rice, fermented slowly in clay pots and aged for more than three years — vinegar made the way it was before speed mattered. Chosanjung ferments pesticide-free Baekjinju brown rice whole, bran and germ included, into a deep, complex vinegar with a bright 6-degree acidity and no added sugar. Use it anywhere you'd want a fine, layered vinegar: sushi rice, pickles, or a bright, complex dressing.
Ingredients: Brown rice (pesticide-free Baekjinju, Korea), rice koji, barley malt, purified water
Purity check: No added sugar; no preservatives; no animal ingredients
Process: Natural fermentation; aged 3+ years in clay pots
Certifications: Traditional Food Quality (No. 378); HACCP
Net weight: 270g (9.5 oz)
Storage method: Store away from direct sunlight; refrigerate after opening
옹기에서 느리게 발효시켜 3년 넘게 묵힌 현미식초예요. 초산정은 무농약 백진주 현미를 쌀겨와 배아까지 통째로 발효시켜, 깊고 복합적인 맛에 6도의 산뜻한 산미를 담아냈죠. 설탕은 넣지 않았습니다. 초밥이나 피클, 드레싱까지 두루 어울리는 결 고운 식초예요.
Whole-grain brown rice, fermented the long way
This is hyeonmi-heukcho, Korean brown rice black vinegar, made from pesticide-free Baekjinju brown rice fermented whole — bran and germ included — and aged for years. Where an ordinary vinegar hits sharp and one-note, this one is rounded and soft: its 6-degree acidity comes wrapped in a nutty, grain-like depth, with a gentle savoriness that long fermentation builds.
Clay, koji, and years
The process is slow at every step. Rice koji drives a first-stage alcohol fermentation over more than 15 days; then, instead of a machine, natural acetic-acid bacteria are left to turn it into vinegar over months. After that the vinegar rests for more than three years in clay pots buried underground, where its flavor deepens and a range of organic acids forms on its own. Chosanjung's grain vinegar was the first in Korea to receive the government's Traditional Food Quality Certification.
How to use it
Treat it as a rice vinegar with the depth of an aged one. Because its acidity is rounded rather than sharp, it lends dishes savory depth, not just sourness. It's excellent in sushi rice and chobap, in a vinegar dipping sauce, or splashed over quick pickles and jangajji. It brightens a salad dressing, cuts the richness of grilled meat, and works stirred into a cold noodle broth. Because there's no added sugar, you control the sweetness in whatever you make.
통현미를 통째로 발효시킨 식초
현미흑초, 즉 한국식 현미 검은 식초예요. 무농약 백진주 현미를 쌀겨와 배아까지 통째로 발효시키고 몇 해를 묵혀 만들죠. 속성으로 뽑아 톡 쏘고 끝나는 일반 식초와 달리, 이 식초는 산미가 둥글고 부드러워요. 6도의 산미를 구수하고 곡물 같은 깊은 풍미가 감싸고, 오래 발효되며 생긴 은은한 감칠맛이 함께 돌죠.
옹기, 누룩, 그리고 세월
공정은 단계마다 느려요. 쌀누룩으로 15일 넘게 1차 술 발효를 하고, 기계가 아니라 자연 초산균이 몇 달에 걸쳐 식초로 바꾸도록 두죠. 그다음 땅에 묻은 옹기에서 3년 넘게 숙성하는데, 이때 풍미가 더 깊어지고 여러 유기산이 저절로 생겨요. 초산정 곡물식초는 국내 최초로 정부 전통식품 품질인증을 받았습니다.
이렇게 쓰세요
숙성 식초의 깊이를 지닌 쌀식초라고 보면 돼요. 산미가 쏘지 않고 둥글어서, 신맛만 더하는 게 아니라 요리에 감칠맛과 깊이를 함께 얹어 주죠. 초밥이나 초회, 초간장, 겉절이나 장아찌에 잘 어울려요. 샐러드 드레싱을 산뜻하게 살리고, 구운 고기의 기름기를 잡아 주고, 냉면 국물에 넣어도 좋아요. 설탕이 안 들었으니 단맛은 취향껏 조절하면 됩니다.
Chosanjung has been making fermented vinegar in Yecheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do since 1946, a region chosen in part for its clean water and mountain air. What began as one family's craft has continued, unchanged in method, for three generations, built around slow time and natural materials: loess-clay pottery, underground aging cellars, and a refusal to rush. Its grain vinegar was the first in Korea to receive the Traditional Food Quality Certification (Korea Food Research Institute No. 378), and the brewery holds HACCP certification and FDA registration. The current master, Han Sang-jun, was designated Korea's National Food Master No. 94 in 2024, and Chosanjung's vinegars have been introduced abroad through Chef Peter Gilmore, Sydney's 2023 Chef of the Year.
초산정은 물 맑고 공기 좋은 경북 예천에서 1946년부터 발효식초를 빚어 온 식초 전문 양조장입니다. 한 집안의 손끝에서 시작된 방식이 바뀌지 않고 3대째 이어지고 있습니다. 그 바탕은 느린 시간과 자연 재료입니다. 황토 옹기와 땅속 숙성실, 그리고 서두르지 않는 고집이 초산정의 식초를 만듭니다. 초산정 곡물식초는 국내 최초로 전통식품 품질인증(식품연 제378호)을 받았으며, HACCP 인증과 FDA 등록도 마쳤습니다. 현 대표 한상준 명인은 2024년 대한민국 식품명인 제94호로 지정되었고, 초산정 식초는 시드니 올해의 셰프(2023) 피터 길모어 셰프를 통해 해외에도 소개되었습니다.
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