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#0682.K5 Tomizawa Tea Garden: Kabusecha Saemidori Kumamoto Guricha "Green Tea.Lab" 単02 かぶせ茶 冴え緑 (JAS Organic)

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Meet the fresh batch of Tomizawa Tea Garden Shincha, harvested in 2024 and certified organic by JAS. The other teas are also grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers. 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 green tea shaded for about 2 weeks before early May harvest (making it a kabusecha). The Saemidori tea cultivar is has been the most popular cultivar among tea connoisseurs in Japan in recent years due to its bright color and sweet flavor, both enhanced by shading. This saemidori kabusecha has a rich sweetness followed by a refreshing sweetness, leaving a sweet aftertaste in your mouth. The tea has very little bitterness or astringency. 

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 Saemidori
  • Japanese name: かぶせ茶 富茶華(とみさわ) さえみどり
  • Ingredients: Green tea
  • Cultivar: Saemidori
  • 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

Learn more about the farmers here!

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Tomizawa Tea Garden

#0682.K5 Tomizawa Tea Garden: Kabusecha Saemidori Kumamoto Guricha "Green Tea.Lab" 単02 かぶせ茶 冴え緑 (JAS Organic)

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Meet the fresh batch of Tomizawa Tea Garden Shincha, harvested in 2024 and certified organic by JAS. The other teas are also grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers. 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 green tea shaded for about 2 weeks before early May harvest (making it a kabusecha). The Saemidori tea cultivar is has been the most popular cultivar among tea connoisseurs in Japan in recent years due to its bright color and sweet flavor, both enhanced by shading. This saemidori kabusecha has a rich sweetness followed by a refreshing sweetness, leaving a sweet aftertaste in your mouth. The tea has very little bitterness or astringency. 

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

Product Info

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.

Learn more about the farmers here!

Size

  • [2024] 10g / 0.35 oz / May / Yunomi bag
  • [2024] 100g / 3.5 oz / May / Original bag
  • [2024] MULTIPACK 1kg (100g x 10 bags) / 3.5 oz / May / Original bags
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