Kyoto Oolong 2024 🇯🇵

Kyoto Oolong 2024
Japanese Oolong Tea
From Wazuka, Soraku District, Kyoto Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan

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

This tea is organically grown!

A rare and interesting Oolong from Japan with a fine balance of flavours and excellent quality, with a mixed size of twisted and flat leaves, a woody auburn colour, giving rounded notes of deep roast and stone fruit aromas. As the leaves open they’re dark and slick and continue to give satisfying fruit and cinnamon notes with balanced roasted aromas. The tea soup has a beautiful clarity and thick quality with a deep copper tone. The taste is clean and pure, a full bodied roast,  cinnamon sweetness and warming citrus. Everything about this tea is delightful!

Harvested in June, from the Zairai cultivar, grown in full sun cultivation. Then carefully and skilfully processed following traditional techniques by Tea master Nakai and family.

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.