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Japanese Fukamushi Shincha Loose Leaf Green Tea

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Β£24.99
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Β£0.25 per cup
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A deliciously buttery and mellow green sencha loose leaf tea from Japan. A delicate and bright first flush that is streamed for longer than a more common asamushi sencha to accentuate the smoother notes of the leaf.

Long steamed to accentuate the sweeter, less astringent characteristics of the tea, making a buttery smooth infusion enriched with fragments of leaf.

Β£0.25 per cup based on 3g of tea per 150ml of water and 6 infusions.

Wakohen tea garden, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

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Recommended Infusion Guide

  • Quantity

    Use 3g of tea per 150ml of water.

  • Temperature

    For the optimum infusion use 70Β°C water.

  • Time

    Infuse for 60 seconds, tasting regularly.

  • Infusions

    You can infuse this tea at least six times. With each careful infusion, different subtleties of flavour are revealed.

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How to infuse your tea is very personal, and these are just our recommendations based on experience. Please experiment with these variables to your heart's delight. These are our recommendations, not hard and fast rules. The most delicious tea is the one you love.

Our guide uses a standard tea cup size (150ml/5.5 oz) as a measure, please adjust the quantity of leaf accordingly for less or more water. Our whole loose leaves are of such a high quality that you can infuse our teas at least twice, and the second infusion is often better than the first, with different flavours revealed as the leaf softens. If you prefer your tea stronger, add more leaf, don’t leave it for longer (this will just make it bitter).

Our loose leaf Shincha green tea also makes an excellent cold infused iced tea.

Because of the finer particles with a high surface area, the tea extracts extremely quickly. Using 2g per 150ml you can make a very delicious tea in just five or ten minutes in ambient temperature. Enjoy strained over ice.

After checking the fields everyday from the end of March to early April the farmer, Horiguchi-san, harvests the tea at the exact point the first bud has reached maturity.

The first flush is called "Shincha" in Japanese. Shin (ζ–°) means "new" and Cha (茢) means "tea" = "first tea of the season".

Sometimes also called "ichibancha" (first flush tea).

Fukamushi is steamed two or three times longer than the more common asamushi sencha. Fukamushi means "steamed for a long time".

This changes the appearance and the taste - the longer steaming makes the tea taste softer and sweeter with less astringency. The tea leaves themselves become more soft and more fragile when they are dried. As tiny pieces break off you get a deeper colour, more cloudy texture in your teacup.

The more broken appearance might make you think Fukamushi Shincha is of lesser quality – but just taste it to see that this is definitely not the case. Ingesting a little of this pure leaf means you get more of the rich nutrients than a pure, clear infusion.

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