Matcha ~ Ceremonial Organic 2024 🇯🇵

Ceremonial Organic Matcha 2024
Japanese Powdered Green Tea
From Harayama, Wazuka, Soraku District, Kyoto Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan

12g Tin

This tea is organically grown!

In April, we had the privilege of tasting this exquisite tea in the tea gardens of Harayama overlooking a beautiful vista of Wazuka tea town, enriching the experience greatly. This is a truly excellent first flush Matcha of the very best quality with a very fine bright green appearance giving aromas of gentle umami with sweetness and freshness. Creating a silky soft foam that has a soft, rich creamy mouthfeel and smooth flavour reminiscent of white chocolate and roasted chestnuts. This fine ceremonial grade will be suitable for both Koicha (thick tea) and Usucha (thin tea). 

Harvested in May, the first flush, from the Okumidori cultivar, grown using Tana shelf indirect shading cultivation. The tea has been shaded for 30 days, prior to harvest then carefully and skilfully processed following traditional techniques by Tea master Nakai and family. Whereby the Tencha is steamed, dried, refined and finely ground using a stone mill to create this excellent ceremonial grade Matcha.

Nakai was the first tea farm to be organically certified in Japan with tea fields free of pesticides, herbicides and synthetic fertilisers.

Nakai Tea Garden has enjoyed a 350 year history of tea cultivation in Wazuka, since the Genroku Era (late 1660’s). 
In 1986 the 6th generation Tea Master Michio Nakai switched to all natural cultivation for the health of the environment and fellow tea drinkers. This decision was met with alot of backlash at the time but Michio-san and family were committed, despite all the nay-sayers. After organic practices began, by 1993 the tea garden was producing excellent tea. 
In the same year, Michio-san with a group of founders created JONA - the Japanese Organic & Natural Foods Association serving an organic standards agency. This would lead to the Japanese Agricultural Standards or JAS being launched in 2000 by JONA.