Fragrant Sencha 🇯🇵

Fragrant Sencha
Japanese Green Tea
From Wazuka, Soraku District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

40g Tin
or
Zero Waste Refill (compostable bag) with discount code: REFILL

This tea is organically grown!

Deep green, silky needle-like leaves, giving fresh aromas of cut grass. The wet leaf loosely opens to reveal tender bright leaves that are very aromatic. A vibrant tea soup thats clean and pure in quality with a high clarity. The drinking experience is smooth and clean thats very easy drinking, the pure, original flavour of the tea trees, a touch of astringency and sweet lingering flavours.

Harvested at the beginning of May then undergoing careful and skilful processing following traditional techniques by tea master Nakao and family.

Megumi Nakao took over the small scale Yoshida family tea farm from her father and since then has been switching to natural organic cultivation and processes, believing in the importance of creating resilient, sustainable tea trees and producing clean, pure teas for the health of her family, the people and the environment. With the aim is produce tea with the natural fragrant flavour of the tea plant.

Wazuka is a tea town in the southeastern area of Kyoto Prefecture. Wazuka has been a tea growing location since the Kamakura period as a main producer following Uji tea processing methods. It is thought that the Kaijūsen-ji temple introduced tea to the area and Zen Buddhist monk, Shonin Jishin was the first to cultivate tea on Mt Jubu and then in Wazuka.