Japanese Green tea for Life

We are green tea exporter in Japan. Japanese green tea has a lot of varieties such as Sencha, Gyokuro, Matcha. Each of producer in gardens are devorting their life for tea production. We'd like to introduce and share their interesting story. For more info, visit; www.jp-greentea.co.jp/english/

タグ:Kagoshima

By recent Matcha booming in the world, we are pretty busy to manage matcha raw ingredients.
For the large customers, we need to secure the quite big amount of raw ingredient or rough tea (Tencha) as single LOT #. Then it becomes very difficult to secure their necessary amount through the year these days.

Therefore, we encourage tea gardens to try making organic or low pesticide matcha to meet the overseas standard.

I'd like to introduce 2 remarkable but reasonable matcha at here.
Both of them are limited stock, and next available date is next harvest in 2017.

#23098 Kagoshima Organic Matcha 2nd Flush Premium (140kg ONLY)
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Matcha grade basically differenciated by ceremonial or cooking (culinary grade).
The definition of ceremonial grade must be 1st flush spring harvest.

And this is 2nd flush so that it must be cooking grade no matter the taste is.
Then, you can see the color in the photo.
This is very same as 1st flush spring harvest matcha but the price is 2nd flush.

Limited Edition. Only 170kg. 2nd Flush premium organic matcha made at North Kagoshima, but stone milled. Color, aroma, sweetness is equal to organic 1st flush ceremonial grade.


#23053 Kagoshima Ariake No Pesticide matcha 1st Flush. (250kg ONLY)
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Limited Edition. 1st Flush premium pesticide free tea. Only 250kg available in a year. The garden is waiting for JAS Organic approval in 2018. Harvest time is only twice (Spring and Autumn) a year to save the nutrition in matcha. Powdered by Mikage Stone mill.

If you have any question, please contact to
www.jp-greentea .co.jp/english

Thank you very much.

Mr. Mori of 9th degree tea master is owning finishing tea company, Kagoshima Seicha and tea house, Birouen near Kagoshima Chuo Station.

His selection 2015 is;

Organic Kagoshima Sencha 1st Flush.
22263 Kagoshima Sencha 1st Flush
Organic Kagoshima Fukamushi cha 1st Flush.

Fukamushi means deep steamed.
Actually they are steamed longer time than deep (higher temperature) steamed.

The benefit is that tea color gets green by powdered leaf and taste sweeter than short time steamed if same leaf.
However, the leaf below look so great that you see deep green needle shape.
It looks like the leaf is too good and he didn't want to break the leaf shape.
It is still Fukamushi but really close to standard sencha this year.
22264 Fukamushi 1st flush 3
Organic Kagoshima Sencha 2nd Flush.
Kagoshima locates far south in Japan.
The eariest harvest of 2nd flush in Japan. This is teh latest arrival.
22445 Sencha 2nd flush 3
As seasonal products, the followings are always available.

Organic Sencha Autamnal.
22446 Sencha Autamnal 3
Organic Genmaicha
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Organic Hojicha
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Organic Kukicha
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To be continued.

If you have any question, please contact to
www.jp-greentea .co.jp/english

Thank you very much!

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The big collaboration between Organic tea gardener, Mr. Kenji Tofuku and Kagoshima Seicha and Japan GreenTea.

Mr. Tofuku is one of the biggest name as organic tea farmer in Kirishima, Kagoshima in Japan.

We exhibited his organic teas; Sencha, Fukamushicha, Genmaicha, Hojicha, and Kukicha in last SIAL 2014 Paris, France.
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Every visitors who saw the fantastic needle shape of his 1st flush sencha said fantastic.

Kirishima is the hole of organic tea gardens in Kagoshima and the new tea is coming for sale on early June. (we sort and check pesticide residue)

Kirishima mountain
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Organic sencha
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Organic Genmaicha
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Organic Hojicha (mild roast)
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Organic Kukicha
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This is First Flush Fukamushicha.
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Our 2015 offer is almost ready.


If you are interested in these Kagoshima teas, please visit;
www.jp-greentea.co.jp
to contact to us.

I've written about Mr. Hiroyuki Mori in my blog before.

His enthusiasm about tea is sperior and any of his tea is very tasty.
I've learned a lot from him and his man, Mr. Imayoshi.

The most valuable knowledge I've leaned from them is how to bid in tea dealer auction.

Most of Japanese tea gardens are very small sized farm who have been doing from 100 years ago. As you may know, Japanese green tea Sencha is used be made by hands rolling until being introduced the recent technology. It means, at the time, anybody can be a finished tea maker if they have a tea farm.

After the rolling machines (there are several for each process) are introduced, there are 3 types of tea gardens are developped. 

1. Just a farm, doing agreculture only. No facility for even making rough tea. Maybe you can imagine that 1 family has a rough tea facility and use 9 of neighbors using their factory when harvest.

2. A farm with rough tea facility. Roughly more than 5 ha. farm usually have an own rough tea facility. Rough tea process for sencha is;

(1) Plucking

(2) Steaming to stop fermentation. (unlike black tea) (
Unlike Chinese green tea which is pan flied to stop fermentation, Japanese method is steaming. Why? It's because to remain/maintain vivid green color of leaf.

(3) 4 different types of rolling.  Soju, Juunen, Cyuju, Seiju.

(4) Drying.

Then, most of rough teas are coming to tea dealer auctions in production city.
Shizuoka and Kagoshima are 2 biggest auctiions held every day around harvest season.

Then, so called Seicha companies (means finished tea) are coming for bidding.
They bid the tea and bring rough tea to their 2nd process facility to finish the tea when they win.

2nd stage of processing is from rough tea to finished tea.
Sorting the size, removing stalk, shaping the colors, heating or blending are done at this stage.
That is also requiring artisan skill. Please smell loose leaf when you buy a new tea and open the package. Nice leaf aroma means thier technic is high.

You can imagine blending requires not only the skill but also the big facility.




Backing to the beginning of this essay.
Mr. Imayoshi taught me how he makes pricing for tea.

Especially Kagoshima, the bidder can not taste the tea but they don't complain!!
How they figurfe out?

Maybe I'll write about it soon when I talk about how nutrition in soil reflect to the leaf.
So, this time, please check the video to just see the overall image of tea manufacturing.

If you are interested in, visit
www.jp-greentea.co.jp/english
and contact to me!

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