Nakai Wakoucha 2024 🇯🇵

Nakai Wakoucha 2024
Japanese Black/Red Tea
From Wazuka, Soraku District, Kyoto Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan

50g
or
Zero Waste Refill (compostable bag) with discount code: REFILL

This tea is organically grown!

An exquisite tea, that has a real stand-out clean and pure quality with large dark leaves and finer rolled leaf with golden flecks giving a very aromatic dried fruit like raisin sweetness. The wet leaves open up revealing a soft, tender feel giving warming, rounded aromas and gentle spiciness. The tea soup has excellent clarity and quality with a vibrant coppery orange. A great depth of flavours with high notes of hay and pine notes, a maltiness similar to brown sugar and gentle aromatic sweetness. Giving a long lasting flavour. 

Harvested in May, from the Yabukita 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.