Japanese Sansho pepper blended with hojicha stems and leaf

 20g

From Ohana Botanic's Creator tea Merchant, Ian: Menehune are forest spirits in the mythology of Hawaii who come to help you with your work. I grew up looking for the menehune who helped clean my room when I was a child, looking into the forests as my family drove home in the evenings from our relative’s house in the mountains above Honolulu.

This hojicha flavoured with Japanese pepper evokes the mystery of the forest with its unique spicy, woody flavour. The sansho pepper ads a bright almost citrus aroma to the tea. 

Steeping notes: 3-5g | 200ml | 70°C | 60 seconds  

• Ingredients: Roast green tea, ginger, Japanese sansho pepper, Japanese pepper essential oil
• Harvest: Spring harvest
• Cultivation Notes: Grown pesticide free. Fertilised with organic compost.
• Region: Fujieda, Shizuoka
• Vendor type: Family-operated farm cooperative.
• Producer: NaturaliTea

About Ohana Botanica: "Ohana Botanica is my new lifestyle brand, a combination of my upbringing in Hawaii and my current home in Japan. As a form of art, I will explore the intersection of these two cultures to discover a style of Japanese living infused with Aloha"

About the producer: NaturaliTea is a private cooperative of farmers managed by the Kinezuka family, whose own tea fields produce over 20% of the cooperative's teas. Based in the hills of Fujieda, Shizuoka, the cooperative was established nearly 40 years ago by Toshiaki Kinezuka. Farmers in the cooperative develop techniques together to grow tea, rice, and vegetables without the use of pesticides or synthetic fertilisers.