This "Hot Water Gyokuro-style Tea" is characterized by its fluffy aroma and rich flavor that rises with hot water. "Yamashiro," a popular brand of Gyokuro-style tea, can be enjoyed without worrying about water temperature. With hot water, you can easily and conveniently enjoy the deep richness, mellowness, and sweet aroma of Gyokuro-style tea. While regular tea undergoes the firing process only once, Yamashiro uses a two-stage firing method, undergoing a second firing just before shipment. This process thoroughly brings out the aroma, and by blending with Gyokuro, you can enjoy a deep flavor even with hot water. We are particular about its aroma and taste. Please try it at least once.
Contents:* 1 bag of Hot Water Gyokuro-style Tea "Yamashiro" (100g)
How to Brew Deliciously:1. Place 8g of tea leaves in a teapot.2. Pour about 150cc of hot water.3. Wait for about 1 minute, then pour into cups.
About Ujitawara Town where the company is located
We are very proud of the fact that we are producing green tea in Ujitawara town because it is actually believed to be the birthplace of green tea. Kyoto has the oldest tea garden in Japan, and that place is considered to be where Japanese people started growing tea for the first time. Ujitawara town is located in the southern part of Kyoto, and more green teas are produced there. Ujitawara town is located deep in the mountains and is endowed with nature suitable for producing green tea. Let's look into the history of why the town is considered the birthplace of green tea.In the 18th century, around the time of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, a tea farmer named Soen Nagatani produced bright-colored green tea for the first time in Japan. Bright-colored Japanese green tea is very common nowadays, but people used to drink dusky-red coarse tea made only by roasting the tea leaves back then. Soen was considering the possibility of tea "as bright as fresh tea leaves." He re-examined the conventional way of producing green tea and finally established a "green-tea-producing method" after 15 years of experiments. He established the method to create flavory bright-green tea by gently kneading the tea leaves by hand and extracting water from the tea leaves with heat. Soen then instructed local people about his method, and Ujitawara town became the origin of Japanese green tea.
Ujitawara town is one of the leading tea-producing areas in Japan. Ujitawara's tea-producing factory was established in 1926 in a scenic place where thick fog from the Uji River protects the tea leaves from frost and direct sunshine. We carry out thorough quality control by purchasing only selected tea leaves, having our tea master Noriaki Yasui check the flavor, and applying our special blending process. We are not only producing green tea at our factory but also selling our Japanese green tea by mail order.We are very pleased to learn that many people have been choosing and drinking our green tea for over 90 years. We believe we are blessed by environmental factors, but that is not all. We also think we are very lucky to have inherited the mastery of green tea from tea farmers and tea masters of old. One mastery we inherited is called the "Ooishita Saibai" or "Covering Cultivation" method, first invented around the 16th century. This is a cultivation method where we cover the tea garden with a reed blanket just before the cultivation time.By blocking the sunlight, we can produce brighter and much tastier green tea. As a group of tea specialists, we will deliver high-quality green tea that we are continuously improving with our revolutionary, time-honored methods.