Japanese Green Tea

Japanese Green Tea

In Japan today Green Tea is very much a part of day to day life. Tea is grown in Japan and also many of the best quality teas from around the tea growing world are imported into Japan. In Japan most tea production is to make Green Tea as opposed to Black Tea or Oolong grade teas. Throughout Japan you find a number of different types of green tea depending on the specific garden's method. The picture shows the holy Mount Fuji with beautifully kept tea fields in the foreground.

Types of Japanese Green Teas

Types of Japanese Green Teas

Many different methods are used from plucking the tea through to manufacture. Different parts of the leaf can be used with the best quality teas coming from the opening unfurling bud and the next two leaves. The plucking of the tea can take place at different times of year and even different times of day. Cultivation methods also vary with organic production featuring strongly.


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Japanese Green Sencha - Fukujyu

Is the main standard of Green Tea production and the most popular.The tea is grown in the Shizouka District in the fujiama mountains, which is one of Japans biggest tea growing areas.Mechanically harvested in the autumn, then steamed before lightly rolling and drying. The leaf has a very fine and fragile structure. When brewed you get a lovely light green colour which shimmers. Strong distinct flavour with a distinct taste.

Japanese Bancha Houghi Cha

Bancha Houghi Cha is a very high quality bancha that has been lightly roasted hence giving a brownish loose leaf appearance. When infused you get a very delicate nutty flavour with a smooth taste. The colour in the cup is a pale yellow, in all it is a very refreshing tea. One of our many Speciality Teas available to Buy Online.

Japanese Matcha Tea

Matcha is a fine ground, powdered green tea. The famous Japanese Tea Ceremony uses Matcha. Usually a very expensive tea and our matcha is from an organic farm. Gyokuru tea is used as the base tea and left out to be dried then de-veined and de-stemmed. The tea is then painstakingly ground by stone to produce matcha. Along side being a tea Matcha is quite often used for culinary purposes.

Japanese Gyokuru

During the growth phase of these well cared for tea bushes, they are covered with blankets to slow the growth and allow the plants to pull up more nutrients from the soil which, in turn, enhances the depth of colour within the leaf. This tea has a needle like dark green leaf that produces a very bright and rich liquor with a distinct vegetal character. Very high in anti- oxidants, this tea is favoured by many health conscious drinkers.

Sencha Genmai Cha

Sencha Genmai Cha

Japanese Sencha Genmai Cha Tea - Famous Green Tea from Japan. "Genmai" is Japanese for rice. Genmai Cha is made with Bancha tea, to which is added (approx 50%) roasted or popped rice grains. The unusual taste can be characterised by the mildness of the Bancha and is ideally complemented by the pleasant, slightly sweet and nutty, caramel note. This wonderful concoction is low in caffeine making it an ideal tea for drinking all day long. Great introductory tea for those wishing to taste and try this japanese tea. In Japan Sencha Genmai Cha is regarded as a Speciality Tea for drinking in the afternoon.

Japanese Cherry

Is another great tea. A Sencha green tea delicatly scented with black cherry. A really powerful scent and taste.

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New for 2010 ... Kuki Cha. Japanese Green Tea known as twig tea or bocha in Japanese. This Japanese tea is a blend of stems, stalks and twigs. A unique flavour because it uses parts of the tea bush normally discarded, it has a sweet and mild nutty flavour. The Green version of this tea is Ko Kie Cha.

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