Anhua Song Zhen is a green tea from an organic tea garden in Anhua, Hunan. A special feature of the variety is the eponymous needle shape of the processed tea leaves, which is reminiscent of pine needles ("song hen") also in terms of color. The dry tea leaf's mild and sweet, slightly hay-like aroma gains both in complexity and depth…
Dhara Artisanal Green Tea is a climate- and forest-friendly cultivated green tea from northern Thailand. As such, it comes from native "Assamica" type tea trees thriving in their natural biodiverse (subtropical) forest environments. Due to the highly diverse natural input in the (forest) soil, such "wild" teas are particularly rich in taste and active substances, rewarding tea drinkers with a…
DMS Bai Yai Assamica Green Tea is a whole leaf green tea picked from north Thailand's native tea trees. The large open-rolled leaf produces a clear and bright yellow-green liquor. The tea shows none to only moderate bittering, depending on infusion period and water temperature. In the region of Doi Mae Salong, center of tea cultivation in north Thailand, the…
Our DMS Green Pearls is a green tea from Doi Mae Salong, north Thailand. Here, the actually Taiwanese 'Cing Xin' tea cultivar finds optimal conditions between 1200 and 1600 meters. The carefully handpicked leaf unfolds after about 30 seconds in hot water, before producing a clear, bright yellow-green cup. With appropriate water temperature (see below), pleasantly fresh, invigorating taste without…
Enshi Yu Lu is a classic green tea from the Chinese province of Hubei, picked in the second half of April with a picking standard of 1+2. Special for this type of green tea, which is also know as "Chinese Gyokuro", is the oxidation stop performed through steaming instead of roasting. At this, the gentle steaming ensures the optimal preservation…
Gyokuro Hiki is a genuine Japanese green tea characterized by the full shading (housing) of the tea plants with several net layers. It is the careful, traditional handcrafting that makes this Gyokuro from the valleys of the Hiki River, Wakayama Prefecture, a particular rarity. The handwork visually manifests in the appearance of the long, needle-shaped, fir-green tea leaves. The bright,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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,…
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…
Tai Con Linh Jungle Green is a wild green tea from the eponymous mountain range in Vietnam's northernmost province of Ha Giang. Here, too, the best qualities yields the young spring, when the active ingredients accumulated during winter shoot into the newly sprouting young buds. At this, the natural growth in a biodiverse environment and the excellent picking standard guarantee…
Tai Hu Dongting Bi Luo Chun Green Tea, a regular on the Top Ten Great Teas of China list, from Dongting Island on Lake Tai ("Tai Hu") in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu. The tea's most obvious characteristic is the distinctive shape and color of the processed tea leaf, reminiscent of a "spring green snail". In terms of taste,…
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,…
