Harvest: Spring 2023 (Ichibancha)
Cultivar: Yabukita Breed
Harvesting Method: Hand-held harvester from beautifully shaped tea fields
Taste: Well-balanced with sweetness, bitterness and astringency with a noble and pure aroma
Liquid: Clear light golden yellow
Leaves: A little glossy, narrow and long needles shaped leaves
This is our most selling Sencha made from carefully picked leaves. Made from tea leaves of the Yabukita cultivar and grown on the picturesque hills of Wazuka Town just a bit south of Uji City. This tea was lightly steamed to preserve its beautiful shape, and rolled into fine spindle-shaped and heavy darkened and fragrant needles. Strong umami flavor with light notes of astringency. One key feature of Sencha from Uji is its refreshing taste and compared to other production areas in Japan its light color.
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About Sencha:
Sencha is the most commonly cultivated and consumed type of Japanese tea. The tea plants are not covered and therefore exposed to a lot of sunlight, which gives the tea a lively and clear flavor. Because the leaves traditionally grow in full sunlight, Sencha contains more of the positive nutrient catechin than other green teas, giving the tea leaves a yellowish green color. Nowadays, Sencha leaves are also covered in the last days before harvest to suppress bitterness and astringency.
