KU001 Tomizawa Tea Garden: 2024 Kabusecha Yabukita Kumamoto Guricha "Green Tea.Lab" 単01 薮北 かぶせ茶 (JAS Organic)
KU001 Tomizawa Tea Garden: 2024 Kabusecha Yabukita Kumamoto Guricha "Green Tea.Lab" 単01 薮北 かぶせ茶 (JAS Organic) - [2024] 10g / 0.35 oz / May / Yunomi sample bag is currently unavailable and will ship as soon as it is back in stock. Repacking smaller sizes / ordering new stock generally takes 1-2 weeks.
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KU001 Tomizawa Tea Garden: 2024 Kabusecha Yabukita Kumamoto Guricha...
Meet the fresh batch of Tomizawa Tea Garden Shincha, harvested in 2024 and certified organic by JAS. Enjoy pure, natural flavors with every sip, knowing you're supporting sustainable farming practices.
From the fields of family-operated tea farm, Tomizawa Tea Garden, a shincha shaded for about 2 weeks before early May harvest (making it a kabusecha). The Yabukita tea cultivar is the standard in the tea industry for providing great flavor (enhanced by the shading).
As a steamed tamaryokucha (or guricha), the leaves are not rolled into straight needles as you would see with sencha, but rather left slightly curled by skipping the last rolling step.
Steeping Notes
- Tea: 3-5 grams
- Time: 1 minute
- Water temperature: 60C/140F degrees
- Water amount: 1 cup
- Resteep at hotter temperature up to 3 times. We recommend the second steep to be quick -- in and out, since the leaves are primed for extraction.
- Use hotter temperature & longer steeping time for a more astringent tea, use cold water or ice steeping for a very sweet tea.
Product Info
- Name: Kabusecha Yabukita
- Japanese name: かぶせ茶 富茶華（とみさわ） やぶきた
- Ingredients: Green tea
- Cultivar: Yabukita
- Harvest: Early May
- Steaming: Slightly longer than regular steaming but retains shape well, so not quite fukamushi (deep steamed)
- Region: Mashiki, Kumamoto
Vendor Info
The Tomizawa Tea Garden has over 85 years of tea farming history in Kumamoto Prefecture, and have received many famous tea awards in Japan. The family grows tea with a lot of sunlight and Kumamoto’s natural ground water famous for its clean and beautiful taste.
In April 2016, Mashiki, Kumamoto Prefecture affected by the Kumamoto Earthquakes with main shock at magnitude 7.0. The earthquakes have resulted in 48 deaths, 3000 injuries, and nearly 200,000 people evacuated to shelters in the aftermath.
Tomizawa Tea garden also had been affected by this earthquake losing their tea shop. However, they used this opportunity to rebuild their shop in 2018, calling it the Greentea.Lab.
- Name: Tomizawa Tea Garden / Greentea.Lab
- Location: 47 Oyatsu, Mashiki, Kamimashiki-gun, Kumamoto 861-2204
- Established: April 1928
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