Ha Dong Se Jak

Saejak, "Small Sparrow", is the second harvest. The leaves are young and tender, offering plenty of freshness and umami. This tea is carefully rolled by hand.

Hadong is considered one of Korea’s leading origins for green tea. The tea plants used for the teas of our producer, Cho Yun Seok, grow in a wonderfully wild and highly biodiverse tea garden. The setting is ideal: the tea bushes are scattered across the slope and surrounded by wild plants and many shade-giving trees. This produces leaf material of very high quality. The plants are seed-grown, meaning that the bushes are not genetically identical, and are around thirty years old.

Cho Yun Seok specialises in traditional tea production and crafts his teas with exceptional skill. So far, we have not found another Korean green tea in a comparable league. Even his later-harvest teas are highly aromatic and well balanced.