{"id":2353,"date":"2016-04-18T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T20:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curioustea.com\/?post_type=product&p=2353"},"modified":"2023-02-16T20:24:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:24:45","slug":"dong-cheon-daejak-nokcha","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.curioustea.com\/tea\/green-tea\/dong-cheon-daejak-nokcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Dong Cheon Daejak Nokcha"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dong Cheon Daejak Nokcha (\ub3d9\ucc9c \ub300\uc791 \ub179\ucc28) is a lovely green tea from the Dong Cheon co-operative of farmers. A Daejak (\ub300\uc791) grade is plucked in summer and is the final flush of the season. It is also normally the flush when the largest leaves are plucked from the trees. While earlier flushes are more prized, they also attract very high prices due to small scale of tea production in the country. This Dong Cheon Daejak Nokcha green tea by contrast has a great balance between great quality, unusual character and a reasonable price. It has full organic certification and was picked in May 2020.<\/p>\n
Although Korean teas may look similar green teas from other countries, their taste can be quite unusual due to quite different production methods. This particular tea is produced using the Jeong-cha<\/em> production method where the freshly hand plucked leaves are plunged into near boiling water. After this hot bath they are shaped and dried in a hot iron cauldron until finished. The result carries a stronger, bolder and deeper flavour that is quite distinctive.<\/p>\n Dong Cheon Daejak Nokcha is a semi-wild green tea, which means that the trees are from an ancient cultivar from Hadong Province that used to grow wild. This cultivar is thought to have been brought from China by buddhist monks over 1,200 years ago and many temples around Jirisan (\uc9c0\ub9ac\uc0b0) still grow their own tea. So the majority of tea from Hadong comes from the descendants of those original tea plants. Presently the tea plants of this ancient Hadong cultivar are normally planted by the farmers but are then basically left to grow on their own as they are grown organically without pesticides or herbicides.<\/p>\n