A premium taste from the home of Japan's richest gyokuro green tea.Providing the perfect shelter for gyokuro's deeper, sweeter flavour to develop, Yame's mountainous and misty climate offers the ideal conditions to nurture a notoriously challenging green tea into the exquisitely complex yet soothing blend this loose tea brews. Grown under rice straw trellises so the shaded tea leaves increase their production of amino acid theanine and caffeine, this tea avoids the natural bitterness most green teas cultivate and instead enriches itself with a fuller, umami taste. Carefully harvested by hand so only the best leaves are steamed, rolled and dried into this loose tea, this gyokuro carries modest aromas that are easy to pair with food, yet packs a pleasant variety of flavour in its flowery-green shade. Brewed at low temperatures for 90 seconds to maintain its delicate quality.
