Kirokuen: Single Cultivar Okumidori Tencha

Kiroku Tea Garden: Okumidori Tencha 

40g

Tencha is the unrefined leaves used to grind into Matcha. These leaves have a delicate flavour when steeped and are delicious used n cooking. 

This Okumidori tencha is a light bodied shaded green tea with zero astringency, with umami flavour and notes of sweet matcha

The Okumidori cultivar is a cultivar originating from Shizuoka prefecture. It is known to be a well-rounded and mellow cultivar that makes delicious matcha green tea. 

Steeping Notes: 3g | 70°C | 2min | 200ml 

• Ingredients: Green tea 
• Cultivar: Okumidori
• Harvest: May 23
• Notes: Shaded 3-4 weeks, no pesticides / synthetic fertilisers used.
• Region: Wazuka Village, Kyoto Prefecture

About the farm:  "Our 4th generation Kirokuen Tea Farm is in the heart of Wazuka, an area whose mountain tea fields and undulating terraced slopes thick with fog make perfect tea-growing conditions. Founded nearly 100 years ago, before cars and farming machinery were available, our mountain fields were cleared by hand by my Great-Grandfather, Kirokuen’s Founder.

Today, we’re in the unusual position of being entirely owned by women. After the death of my father, my mother, myself and my sister took over the running of the farm to continue our family’s legacy, one that began in these fields all those years ago."