Japan
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All About Tea’s Japanese Cherry is green Japanese Sencha flavoured with natural cherry. This is a traditional and classic way to enjoy all the health benefits of green tea, with a different, rather exciting flavour.
Sencha is Japan’s most popular Green tea, harvested in the Spring when the leaves are young and growing rapidly. It is a good quality tea, a deep emerald in colour, with a delicate, sweet, natural grassy flavour. The brewed tea is a clear, bright, yellow-green.
The Cherry occupies an important place in the culture of Japan. Its scent and flavour have been the subject of art and literature in this ancient culture since time immemorial. The exquisite combination of subtle, mellow Sencha blended with the peppery fruit flavours of Cherry is not only a calming, health-giving, refreshing and delicious drink, but also a celebration of the unique Japanese way of life.
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Kokei Cha is a traditional Japanese tea. Mostly produced in the Shizouka region of Japan, it has a unique, uniform appearance and a fresh aroma.
The tea is processed by grinding the raw leaf into a powder and forming it into a paste by mixing with water. It is then passed through a mesh to create the fine, regular strands that are characteristic of this remarkable tea.
The tea brews to create a pale yellow liquor with a distinctively fresh, nutty flavour. This is a classic, delicious, healthy and nutritious Japanese tea that any Japanese tea enthusiast is urged to try.
To brew, place one tsp per person in a warmed pot and add fresh, boiled water that has been allowed to cool for one minute. (The ideal brewing temperature is 70C, 160F, but note that the water will cool significantly during pouring). Brew for 60 secs and serve without milk or sugar.
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Genmai Cha, or “brown rice tea”, is Japanese green tea mixed with toasted rice. You either love it or you hate it. The flavour is extraordinary, very toasty and nutty, and the toasted rice and the fresh grassy Bancha tea complement one another well.
Originally Genmai Cha was drunk by Japan’s poor and the toasted rice was a means of bulking out the more expensive green tea. Now it is drunk by all sections of society as a delicious and unique drink in its own right.