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Jungjak is the heartiest of the early spring plucked teas, yet it has a mellow, slightly roasted flavor and no astringency. Jungjak is the perfect choice for tea enthusiasts looking for a very satisfying flavor in the cup. A delicious spring-plucked Korean yaseng-cha at an affordable price.
About our Korean Green Tea and Spring 2011 Harvest
Tea Trekker’s is proud to offer Korean green tea that is from an organic tea production cooperative composed of over 60 tea producers located in the Hwagae Valley. At harvest time, each producer must comply with rigid organic standards and each producer sets the price of their tea. The selling price of the tea is determined based on many factors, including total crop yield for that year.
Spring 2011 was a very tough year for tea growers in the Hwagae Valley. Thousands of tea bushes were killed by winds and severe cold. A few producers lost as much as 80% of their bushes, while for others, the bushes suffered severe damage but did not die. And yet for other growers, overall damage was minimal. Individual situations depended on the location of the tea fields, as some fields were destroyed or protected from the worst of the weather simply by the good fortune of their physical location in this area.
So while the 2011 spring season yielded devastating plant loss, it was not the catastrophic loss as some have reported.
There have also been reports of wildly high tea prices because of this situation. This cannot be said across the board with such certainty.
Despite the fact that most of the tea cooperative members suffered varying degrees of loss to their tea bushes, the group decided to sell spring 2011 tea to Tea Trekker with only minimal price increases over what we were charged last year. And, while this year’s bad winter weather affected the quantity of tea produced, it did not affect or compromise the quality, flavor or mouth-feel of these wonderful teas.
We appreciate this gesture of good will by the growers.
In kind, we are adjusting the prices of these 2011 teas by only $1.00 per unit to reflect nominal cost increases in packaging materials and shipping rates.
We are proud to sell some of the best organic Korean green teas that money can buy at very reasonable prices! |
