Kombu, rich umami, tangy-sweetness and mountain spring minerals

About this tea

Meticulous soil management and more than two weeks of shading the tea garden before harvesting results in our favorite kabusecha (shaded-grown sencha) from the Okabe region of Shizuoka. Okabe is one of the famous areas for gyokuro and produces top notch sencha with deep flavor from rich soils. This tea is deep and smooth with low tannin and blue-green jade leaves. Amazing kabusecha like this one has an unmistakable, sought-after sweet and stimulating profile that is called out by tea tasters as “kabuse kaori” (wrap-shading garden aroma). The opaque and juicy green infusion and its supple leaves give off a pleasant “brothy” fragrance that is followed up by a concentration of umami-sweetness. This tea buzzes and vibrates the senses. Okabe Deep Green Kabuse Sencha makes amazing cold brew tea by adding 11 grams to a liter of cold water, steeped in the fridge overnight.