Kaneroku Matsumoto-en: Smoked Spring Green Tea

Farmer Hiroki Matsumoto smokes various teas with a number of different types of wood creating different flavour profiles. The wood used to smoke this spring sencha changes from production to production. There is smoked aroma that lingers alongside vegetal green tea flavour. 

20g

Steeping Notes: 3g | 200ml | 90°C | 1-2mins

• Ingredients: Green tea 
  
• Region: Shimada, Shizuoka
• Type: Family business, tea farm & factory

About the Farm: The Matsumoto family has been farming for more generations than there are records. The farm was officially established around 1870 in the City of Shimada, in the Prefecture of Shizuoka in Japan. They established their first tea processing factory in the 1930s. Today, 3rd generation tea master Hiroki Matsumoto is pioneering the production of smoked black teas. 

"We have cultivated tea generation after generation since the Edo Era. The location of our farm on the Makinohara Plateau, celebrated as the best tea cultivation region, is particularly propitious for tea culture. We have grown our tea on this plateau from the very moment it was opened to agriculture in the Meiji Era"

Kaneroku Matsumoto Farm constantly uses a “Traditional tea-grass integrated tea culture”, recognised as a Globally Important Agriculture Heritage System to benefit the future generations. Susuki/Miscanthus sinensis and Sasa/dwarf bamboo cut at the end of Autumn are spread between the tea tree rows without any worry of soiling the earth.
By continuing this agriculture system, we help a healthy growth of the tea trees as well as more than 300 vegetal and animal species. Hiroki Matsumoto is the third generation to continue this tradition.