Tea Tree Tea ~ 茶の木の茶 🇯🇵

Tea Tree Tea // Sannenbancha
Japanese Wood Fire Roasted 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 and low in caffeine!

Large open leaves and large chipped twigs, a mix of auburn tones and hints of pale green leaf, giving a gentle aroma of wood embers and a little toasted sweetness. The tea soup is a pale orangey tone with fragrant wood fire aromas. A gentle and delicate drinking experience, with fragrant wood fire toasted notes, natural cinnamon-like sweetness and a hint of spice. Leaving you with a warming feeling from the yang energy presence. 
This tea is comprised of twigs and leaves that has a lower caffeine content than roasted green teas like Hojicha. Recommended as a great choice for the autumn and winter seasons or at anytime of coldness.

Tea Tree Tea is also referred to as Sannenbancha (3 year old simple tea)
It is made from mature tea trees that have grown to a height of 2-3m from a period of more than 10 years, harvested from abandoned tea fields in Wazuka. They’re then chipped and slowly roasted over a wood fire by tea master Nakao & 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.

Brew guide:
It is common to boil it for 10 - 20 minutes in a kettle before drinking, but you can also put it in a teapot, pour over boiling water and wait for it to brew.