Organic Uji Matcha Tenkei Hana

What you have just found here is a very precious, 100% handpicked, traditionally farmed, certified ORGANIC matcha from Uji, Kyoto that should be prepared as koicha (thick matcha). Only the most prized top leaves of gokou tea bushes are carefully handpicked, and then processed and stone-ground into one of the best matcha that Kyoto has to offer.

Tenkei Hana is extremely aromatic and has the most lingering matcha scent when prepared. It has a distinctive complex taste that is full-bodied, rich, and mature, never chalky, bitter, bland, or solely sweet as so many matcha can be. The liquor color is a deep forest green and the aftertaste is thick, creamy, cleansing and endless. When it comes to ORGANIC matcha, it is easy to spot that Tenkei Hana is on a complete level of its own!

Why is Tenkei Matcha so special.....

• 100% genuinely handpicked. Tea bushes are never machine harvested.
• Grown at an authentic organic oishita-chaen (covered tea garden) with over 250 years of history.
• Farm specializes in organic tencha.
• Growers are professional artisan tencha farmers.
• Tea gardens have been awarded for their outstanding cultivars.
• 100% grown on the single estate in Uji, Kyoto.
• 100% pure stone-ground organic tencha.
• Tencha is aged for at least 6 months before release.
• One of only a few organic matcha in Japan that can be prepared and enjoyed as koicha (thick matcha).
• Very limited. Never mass produced, quality is absolutely paramount.
• Free from farm-to-farm, region-to-region, and tea shop/manufacture/merchant blending.
• ORGANIC! JAS certified.

A rare glimpse at a generations-old traditional Oishita-Chaen Plantation.....

PLEASE NOTE: The proceeding images were taken under 95%+ shade they appear much brighter due to a high ISO speed being used on the camera that was used to take the pictures. Please see the last image for a more accurate feel of the actual degree of light.

JAS certified organic oishita-chaen (covered tea garden)! Organic gokou tea bushes shaded in Late-April:



A beautiful close-up of precious gokou tea leaves! There are not a great deal of new shoots on gokou tea bushes. That's what makes Tenkei Hana so precious:



Genuinely handpicked matcha is very rare! Most tea leaves for matcha are either scissor cut or machine harvested these days. However, our Tenkei Matcha is always 100% handpicked. Here you can see skilled pickers handpicking leaves for our Tenkei matcha at the tea gardens in May:



A more accurate feel of the actual degree of light once you have entered the oishita-chaen and your eyes adapt to the darkness:

Origin	Uji, Kyoto, Japan
Organic Certification(s)	JAS
Harvest Period	100% Ichibancha (First Harvest)
Matcha Grinding Date	Ground in small batches throughout the current year.
Tencha Harvest Date	Mid/Late-May 2011 (Aged Tencha)
Harvest Method	Tezumi (Hand-picked)
Grinding Method	100% Stone-ground
Matcha Type	Koicha (thick matcha)
Cultivar(s)	100% Gokou (sometimes spelled 'gokoh')
Brewing Suggestion	How To Make Matcha Green Tea
NET Weight	30g (1.01oz)