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YAME, FUKUOKA | 八女市 福岡
Hikaru Dento Hon Gyokuro | 50g
Regular price $34.99Tasting Notes | A tea full of natural umami without bitterness.
This dento-hon gyokuro is the perfect example of the amazing green teas that Yame area can produce. It combines extraordinary sweetness with powerful umami. Without any bitterness, this tea is ideal to discover the joys of gyokuro, but will also delight experts.
The most renowned plantations in Fukuoka prefecture are located in Yame area. Morning mists and river fogs are very frequent. Curtains of fog wrap green tea plantations, properly blocking sunlight. This helps in generating more amino acids (including theanine, glutamic acid, arginine, etc.) within the tea leaves. In addition, Yame enjoys an inland climate-high temperature during daytime and very cool and low temperatures at night.
Handpicked and following the traditional covering technique with natural rice straw mats called “sumaki” this Gyokuro has also received the G.I. (Geographical Indication) label. A must-have for all Gyokuro enthusiasts. Please take extra care with the brewing instructions, as it has to be prepared with a low temperature over a long period of time. It can be re-brewed several times like all of our teas with slightly higher temperatures (60c then 70c for a third re-brew).
The Hikaru Dento Hon Gyokuro | 50g is seasonal and only has limited harvest per year.
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Origin | Yame, Fukuoka Prefecture Japan 八女市 福岡 日本 Tea Cultivator | Yamakai Tea Producer | AKIHITO TAKAKI
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At Shizen, we believe that both the tea you consume and the pottery you drink from need to be in the highest quality possible. We are dedicated to working with single harvest tea farms in Japan. Our ceramics come from many craftsman in Japan who are continuing the tradition of handmade ceramics.
Shizen Cha is focused on premium grade Japanese Teas and Handcrafted Teaware.
Simply put, Shizen (自然) means "nature" & Cha (茶) means "tea" in Japan. Our loose leaf teas are picked and processed with the utmost care and precision by our tea farms who demand impeccable quality and freshness.
We believe that quality should never be compromised. We pride ourselves on transparency, clear genealogy, and clear production history. We pay close attention to every step from choosing only the finest leaves and growing, shading and steaming methods. By blending our teas in small patches, packaging by hand is how we provide the best quality tea possible.
We welcome all tea enthusiasts to join us learn more about the thousand year tea culture, with one hope, that each visit will provide excitement, knowledge and to experience tea in the best form possible.
"The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe." - Kakuzo Okakura
