TAISHO | 100 y/o Tree Sencha

New!  This tea will be featured in our August 2024 Steamed Tea Club subscription.

A window into the past!  These hardy, chunky and wonderfully flavourful leaves come from a handful of trees that were planted in the Taisho Era (1912 - 1926).  

Tasting Experience:  a walk in a forest packed with fiddleheads and conifers, right after the rain.

Origin:  Koya, Wazuka (Kyoto), Japan  |   34.7ºN 135.8ºE

Harvest:  May 2024

Grower: Tanaka Yohei San has a small farm on very steep land in Wazuka.  He is particularly fond of a corner of his garden, reserved mostly for family and friends where (we quote):  "I do not have to calculate the cost and other things, I can express my passion in this tea without any constraint.”  The trees that produced this tea are in such corner.  This tea is meant to follow no conventions or standards; is meant to express some the aroma of some venerable old trees that make Tanaka San (and us) very happy.

Brewing Suggestions:  4g tea | 240g water @80℃, 45" (1st steep), 30" (2nd), 40" (3rd)