Tencha leaves are the precursor to making matcha. Tencha undergoes a similar process to matcha, though the finished tea is not ground into powder. Each year, we harvest our farm one field at a time and never blend between fields, picking the newest leaf shoots from the tea bushes, which are shaded from the sun to allow for a sweeter umami flavor to develop. These "first picked" leaves are consi...

Tencha

The most popular type of Japanese tea, sencha makes up 80% of all green tea consumed in Japan. Our single-origin Sencha is made from the young shoots of tea bushes from the same field and which grow under the direct sunlight. As promised, we harvest from the same tea garden and never blend between fields. During processing, we sieve the picked shoots straight from the plant to extract the large...

Sencha

Matcha is Japan’s most renowned tea. We make ours a little differently by ensuring that all of our matcha is a 100% pure single-origin. Each year, we harvest our farm one field at a time and never blend between fields, making use of the youngest leaf shoots from the tea bushes, which are shade grown to allow for a sweet umami flavor to develop. These "first picked" leaves are considered the fin...

Matcha

Hojiru is the Japanese verb meaning “to roast.” For our hojicha, we take our sencha leaves and gently roast them to bring out a delicate, smoky aroma and a beautiful, red-brown tone. The roasting process removes much of the caffeine that is found in our sencha, so it is a great low caffeine tea option that can be enjoyed hot or iced.

Hojicha

A tea somewhere between sencha and tencha, our Kabusecha concludes its growing process shielded from the sun for around 14 days before harvesting to minimize the bitter notes and highlight the sweeter umami characteristics. Once harvested, the leaves are steamed and deliberately kneaded, which helps to break down some of the cell walls to form a thin, needle-like finished tea. As with our other...

Kabusecha

﻿This is our own special take on sencha—we utilize the very fine, small leaves of processed sencha that would be discarded (purely for aesthetic reasons.) Instead of discarding these leaves, we decided to create this Agaricha, which although is not the prettiest, has a rather tasty, light and sweet green tea flavor with a slightly more bitter after taste when compared our regular sencha.

Agaricha

A sencha derivative, our Genmaicha is a blend of sencha leaves with roasted brown rice ‘genmai’. A few grains of brown rice pop during the roasting which result in a popcorn appearance that look delightful amongst the green leaves. The roasted rice gives a rich nutty flavour that complements the fresh sencha.

Genmaicha

For our special blend of hojicha tea, we use tencha leaves to create a very rare expression. The roasted tencha has beautiful sweet notes, giving rise to the name Amehouji, ‘ame’ meaning sweet in Japanese. Usually considered a ‘worker’s drink’, hojicha is generally not considered noteworthy enough to be made from tencha leaves, which are primarily the leaves reserved for matcha-making.

Amehojicha

Our pre-made Matcha Latte Powder is a mix of matcha and sugar prepared in flawless proportions to provide you with the best matcha latte to satisfy your indulgence. We choose a bold flavored matcha for this blend so that it is not overpowered by the milk and sugar.

Matcha Latte Powder

We present you with a pre-made Hojicha Latte Powder. It starts with grinding hojicha into powder in the same way that we process matcha. This creates a strong-flavored hojicha base so that the flavor is sure to prevail against the milk and sugar. We then blend this powder with sugar in the perfect proportions to provide you with the best hojicha latte at the comfort of your home.

Hojicha Latte Powder

Bamboo chasen (classic type) A classic type of handmade chasen with perfect smooth matcha This handmade chasen with a traditional shape is a type that has been used in the tea ceremony for a long time. The traditional bamboo chasen, handmade from a durable piece of bamboo in winter by a professional chasen craftsman in the workshop that has created these masterpieces for generations, is a truly...

Tea whisk (chasen)

A traditional matcha spoon designed to scoop half a serving of matcha at a time A special bamboo chashaku designed to scoop up half a serving according to the points proposed by Kiroku Tea Garden (two cups for one serving). An indispensable tool for making highly functional matcha, which is made from bamboo bamboo and is characterized by its smoothness and gentle suppleness. The special chashak...