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Japanese Characters: 玄米茶 Genmaicha, Meaning – ‘Brown Rice Tea’, This tea combines Green Tea (Usually Bancha or Sencha) with toasted Brown Rice. Nowadays in Japan, many kinds of blended tea are imported from all over the world, the most popular blended tea is Genmaicha. What Is Genmaicha? Genmaicha, or brown rice tea refers to the [...] → Continue Reading Genmaicha Japanese Characters: 新茶 Shincha, Meaning – ‘New Tea’ / ‘First Tea’, This is the first tea to be harvested in the year. When April’s gentle wind has blown the cherry blossom petals and brought forth the engendering of the tea leaves, the shincha season has started in Japan. Shincha Season Shincha season is roughly [...] → Continue Reading Shincha Japanese Characters: 深蒸し茶 Fukamushicha, Meaning – ‘Long Steamed Tea’, Fukamushicha is a Sencha tea that has been deep steamed. “Fukamushicha” is a sub-tea of Sencha whereas deep steaming for twice as long causes the leaves to crumble and release an overall ‘fuller’ beverage. Appearance of Fukamushicha Fukamushicha has a deeper grassy green than regular Sencha. [...] → Continue Reading Fukamushicha Kabusecha Japanese Characters: 冠茶 Meaning – ‘Covered Tea’, appropriately named as it is shaded for one week before harvesting. “Kabusecha” or figuratively known as “Covered Tea” is classified as a form of “Sencha”. What is Kabusecha? Kabusecha is broadly classified as sencha. The price is slightly cheaper than gyokuro. Like gyokuro, these tea leaves are [...] → Continue Reading Kabusecha Japanese Characters : 玉露 Meaning – ‘Jade Dew’, or ‘Imperial Jade Dew’, as it was once reserved specially for the Emporers consumption. “Gyokuro” is considered to be the most expensive tea product in Japan today. Gyokuro is different from other Japanese teas such as “Kabusecha” and “Sencha” in terms of cultivation and taste. What is [...] → Continue Reading Gyokuro Sencha Japanese Characters: 煎茶 Meaning – ‘Decocted Tea’, ‘Decoct’ means ‘To extract the essence of something by boiling it’.“ What is Sencha? Sencha is the most popular Japanese tea. Many people in Japan think of Sencha when they hear “o-cha”– a polite expression of tea. Most Japanese households stock and serve it for their family [...] → Continue Reading Sencha The origin and harvesting of Japanese Matcha Green Tea, for use in the Japanese Tea Ceremony, Ice Cream, Matcha cakes and Wagashi. |
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