Kamairi Hioki Japanese green tea, organic

Hints of gooseberries and redcurrants...

Kamairicha is unusual and rare amongst Japanese green teas as it is pan-fried similarly to Chinese green teas - that gives the tea a distinct toasty flavour, heavier body and a less of a sharp green bite compared to most other sencha teas. Green tea is known to be cold in nature and Japanese teas are the extreme in that regard - thus we find kamairicha to be a nice more composed green tea to drink during the colder months. Being a tamaryokucha style tea, the leaves are not needle shaped delicacies that we've grown to love, but elegantly round and curly, twisted leaves. Produced in Hioki, Kagoshima, South-Japan, from Yutakamidori bush varietal bushes that were plucked in April. EU certified organic.