Green tea is refreshing and extremely healthy. Enjoy it hot or cold, with food or all alone.
Tasting Notes: Acorn Squash, Hay, Pistachio
Legend holds that a drought was remedied when a monk summoned a dragon that brought rains to fill the village well. To this day, the well nourishes the meadow of Zhejiang, near China’s West Lake, where this dew-drenched green tea is cultivated each spring. Prized for its unique, flat, sword-shaped leaves and jade green color, this special tea exhibits a fresh, clean aroma and gentle, mellow flavor.
Caffeine Content: Medium
Tasting Notes: Grassy, Pine, Umami
Our Fukamushi is grown on the foothills of an active volcano in Kirishima, Kagoshima. Harvested from the Saemidori cultivar, this high quality sencha exhibits excellent color and flavor. Shade grown in a region known for its thick cover of fog, the forest green of the leaf is further enhanced through a deep steam process that brews to a cloudy, green nigori (turbidity) and offers a pleasant aftertaste with fresh aromatics. This unique tea can be steeped many times and is also wonderful as a cold brew iced tea. It is recommended to pair this tea with dishes that will enhance its rich, grassy character.
Tasting Notes: Grassy, Rich, Umami
This prized green tea, whose dark leaves denote the careful and mindful nurturing of true artisans, helps to bring forth clarity and focus and has been traditionally used in Zen monasteries as an aid in meditation. Enjoy the rewards of this centering tea with its grassy flavor and vibrant hue.
Caffeine Content: Medium
Tai Ping Hou Kui is a fabulous green tea from Anhui with uniquely-shaped, flat leaves, marking it much different from other green teas – and, also, it is one of China’s top ten teas. Our tea comes from the village of Houkeng, the origin place of Tai Ping Hou Kui.
Honor of Taiping Houkui Tea
Early in 1915, Tai Ping Hou Kui tea won the golden award in the Panama Pacific International Exposition, and in 1955 it earned its status as one of China’s top ten most famous teas.