Unshaded Japanese Sencha green teas: Sencha and Fukamushi Sencha

  • Benifuuki Oolong No. 1 – 50g Box Quick View
    • Benifuuki Oolong No. 1 – 50g Box Quick View

    • Benifuuki Oolong No. 1 – 50g Box

    • €12,90
    • "Oolong tea" of the Benifuuki cultivar developed in 1993 in Kagoshima, Japan, harvested in early May in the first spring picking. What sets it apart from Japanese green teas is its particularly high content of the antioxidant and antiallergic catechins EGCG and EGCG3. Beautifully shaped, rich green leaves and a delicate green cup with golden reflections. Playfully fruity and light…
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  • Benifuuki Oolong No. 2 – 50g Box Quick View
    • Benifuuki Oolong No. 2 – 50g Box Quick View

    • Benifuuki Oolong No. 2 – 50g Box

    • €10,90
    • "Oolong tea" of the Benifuuki cultivar developed in 1993 in Kagoshima, Japan, harvested in the second picking (summer picking). What sets it apart from Japanese green teas is its particularly high content of antioxidant and antiallergic catechins, especially EGCG3. The yellowish-green, clear cup has a slightly tart aroma with a floral note, which comes into its own when the brewing…
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  • Kukicha Green Tea Quick View
    • Kukicha Green Tea Quick View

    • Kukicha Green Tea

    • €5,60 – €27,90
    • Kukicha is a special type of Japanese Sencha tea (see below). Unlike common Sencha teas, the leaf material used for Kukicha contains a portion of stems. Just like Sencha tea, Kukicha comes in various qualities. On that score, our Kukicha is mainly based on tender leaf stems. These are mixed with leaves of a high-grade Sencha tea of the spring…
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  • Liquid Jade No. 1 – Sencha Mandokoro Quick View
    • Liquid Jade No. 1 – Sencha Mandokoro Quick View

    • Liquid Jade No. 1 – Sencha Mandokoro

    • €17,40 – €63,40
    • Liquid Jade No. 1 - Sencha Mandokoro is in many ways not like any other Sencha... In terms of taste, the naturally cultivated tea from the village of the same name in Japan's Shiga prefecture benefits from traditional hand-picking and the uncompromised input from the wealth of a natural, biodiverse environment, while the roots of the seed-grown tea plants, reaching…
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  • Liquid Jade No. 2 – Sencha Kasuga Quick View
    • Liquid Jade No. 2 – Sencha Kasuga Quick View

    • Liquid Jade No. 2 – Sencha Kasuga

    • €12,40 – €41,90
    • Liquid Jade No. 2 - Sencha Kasuga is in many ways not like any other Sencha... In addition to the fact that no agrochemical substances or fertilizers are used, outstanding properties are the traditional hand-picking of the tea leaves once a year in spring and their individual processing in small batches. In terms of taste and effects, the tea benefits…
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  • Liquid Jade No. 3 – Sencha Asamiya Quick View
    • Liquid Jade No. 3 – Sencha Asamiya Quick View

    • Liquid Jade No. 3 – Sencha Asamiya

    • €10,70 – €35,70
    • Liquid Jade No. 3 - Sencha Asamiya comes from a small, naturally cultivated tea garden at the southwest flank of Lake Biwa, in Shiga prefecture, northeast of Kyoto. When infused, the delicate, fir-green needles produce a characteristically light yellow to jade green shimmering cup. This, in turn, delights with a complexity of taste and a wealth of delicately tart vegetal…
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  • Masui’s Withered Sencha Mirai Quick View
    • Masui’s Withered Sencha Mirai Quick View

    • Masui’s Withered Sencha Mirai

    • €12,90 – €44,90
    • Masui's Withered Sencha Mirai comes Masui-en Organic Teafarm in Kawane, Shizuoka. The elegantly fragrant Sencha tea is based on a rare cultivar, originally bred in the company's own tea garden. The overwhelmingly full-bodied, radiant lemon-yellow-green cup convinces in terms of taste with pronounced umami, deep sweetness and a harmonious, mild vegetal note. Accordingly, a first thought on a gourmet's mind …
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  • Mountain-Grown Nara Native Yamatomidori Sencha Quick View
    • Mountain-Grown Nara Native Yamatomidori Sencha Quick View

    • Mountain-Grown Nara Native Yamatomidori Sencha

    • €10,40 – €34,90
    • Mountain-Grown Nara Native Yamatomidori Sencha is a traditional Sencha tea from Fumiaki Iwata's natural, pesticide- and fertilizer-free "Kitorode" tea garden in Tsukigase, a city in Japan's Nara Prefecture, southeast of Kyoto and Osaka. In the infusion, the finely crafted, unusually long, fir-green needles produce a characteristically shimmering light-green cup that offers an idiosyncratic sweetness in taste, embedded in a roundelay…
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  • Sencha Fuji Quick View
    • Sencha Fuji Quick View

    • Sencha Fuji

    • €5,60 – €27,90
    • Sencha is the most popular tea in Japan. Our Sencha Fuji, coming from the year's first spring picking at Mount Fuji, is a Sencha tea of elevated class. What makes it stand out from the mass of customary Sencha teas, is for once the gentle mildness of its slightly grassy to delicate hay-like basic flavor. Then, it's the tender sweetnees,…
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  • Sencha Gokuijo Quick View
    • Sencha Gokuijo Quick View

    • Sencha Gokuijo

    • €6,30 – €33,90
    • Sencha Gokujo, about translating to 'best quality Japanese green tea', fully lives up to its name. As an unshaded Sencha tea of the first spring picking (April) with a picking standard of young spring buds and leaves only, this green tea from the north of Kagoshima prefecture is almost a rarity on the western tea market. The fertile volcanic soils…
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  • Tamaryokucha Green Tea Quick View
    • Tamaryokucha Green Tea Quick View

    • Tamaryokucha Green Tea

    • €5,80 – €29,90
    • Tamaryokucha (tama = gemstone, ryoku = green, cha = tea) is a special type of Japanese Sencha tea (see below). Unlike common Sencha teas, however, Tamaryokucha leaves are not rolled into the characteristic needle shape after steaming, but are open-rolled, in orientation at the Chinese role model. Our Tamaryokucha comes from the prefecture of Myazaki on the island of Kyushu,…
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