Sunhyang 순향 — Master Artisan Korean Green Tea
Tasting Notes
Where it grows
Hadong is one of the oldest tea-growing regions in Korea. The first tea seeds arrived here from China in 828 AD. Master Shin Gwang-su has worked this land for forty years. His certification as a master artisan is awarded to fewer than fifty tea masters in all of Korea. He reads the heat with his palm. The leaves are turned by hand. Nothing is scaled.
How to brew
About this tea
Roasted by hand in a wood-fired iron cauldron by Master Shin Gwang-su — one of fewer than fifty government-certified tea masters in Korea. His garden in the Korean highlands has never once been touched by a chemical. The method is four thousand years old.
순향 means pure fragrance — the highest compliment in Korean tea culture. No bitterness. fragrance arrives before the first sip.
Four thousand years of method. One man who kept it alive.
Shane — KTeaShop
Trust and Sourcing
Where It Comes From. How It Is Made.
Shin Gwang-su Tea Garden — Hadong
Origin Estate
Shin Gwang-su Tea Garden — Hadong
Private garden managed by Master Shin Gwang-su since 1984. Zero pesticides or synthetic fertilisers in over forty years of continuous cultivation.
Produced under HACCP-certified processes and ISO 22000 food safety systems
Food safety management system verified. Hazard analysis and critical control points monitored throughout production.
명인 (Master Artisan) — Government-certified by the Korean government. One of fewer than fifty nationwide.
Zero-chemical cultivation since 1984 — over forty years without pesticides or synthetic fertilisers.
Directly sourced by Shane from Master Shin Gwang-su garden in Hadong County, Korea. Limited to seasonal harvest yield.
Shane — KTeaShop
The Story
The Third Tea Tradition
Europe knows Japanese green tea. Europe knows Chinese green tea. Korean hand-roasted green tea is a third tradition — older in method, almost unknown outside Korea. The gamasot iron cauldron technique is four thousand years old. Leaves are fired in wood-smoke heat, turned by the master hands, dried on woven trays. Master Shin Gwang-su is one of the last practitioners. Sunhyang is his garden and this is its harvest.