About this item

• Contents: 100g
• Uses second tea bathed in warm sunlight.
• Green tea with a refreshing aftertaste and a cloudy taste with a slight astringency.
• Ideal for taking a break from housework and childcare, and refreshing time at work or working from home!
• It can be enjoyed hot or cold.

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Description of the product

It's so neat! Deep steamed tea leaves from Shizuoka Prefecture, one of the most famous tea producing areas in Japan. Back in the Meiji era, the large tea plantations on the Makinohara Plateau, which have been cultivated since the Meiji era, have weakly acidic soil, well-drained red soil, and a warm climate, so it can be said that the land is the most suitable for tea making. There's a reason why it tastes so good. High-quality tea leaves and proven solid technical capabilities. At Makinohara, Japan's No. 1 tea shop, we have been sincerely working to make delicious tea for more than 100 years. With the skills of inherited craftsmen and high-quality tea leaves, we manufacture real deep-steamed tea every day. What is "deep steamed tea" in the first place? In fact, it is a manufacturing method that has a short history. Around the time of the Meiji era, there was an urgent need to cultivate tea gardens on the Makinohara Plateau, which was not suitable for rice cultivation. Even in cold weather, it was relatively warm, frost-resistant, and had excellent daylight hours, making it more suitable for growing tea leaves than rice. A large tea garden was soon established, but due to the strong sunlight, the tea leaves grew too thick, and the astringency and bitterness became very high, so it was evaluated as a tea that could not be sold at that time. I want to make the most of the nutritious tea leaves that have grown thick. Even tea leaves that are difficult to taste good when roasted normally are not bad in terms of quality. After a lot of trial and error by the people of that time, the "deep steaming method" was finally established around the 1970s. It has a dark green color and a mellow sweetness. Make the most of the unique flavor of tea leaves from Shizuoka Prefecture. In the production of green tea, there is a process of steaming at a high temperature to stop oxidation and suppress the green smell. At this time, it is generally steamed for about 30 seconds, and steamed for 1 minute or more is called deep steamed tea. Deep steaming reduces catechins, which are the source of astringency and bitterness, resulting in a mellow and easy-to-drink tea. Deep steaming destroys the cell walls of the tea leaves, so the finished tea leaves do not look good, but the ingredients are easy to leach, and when roasted, it is finished in dark green tea. Deep steamed tea, which has a mellow mouthfeel and strong tea taste, and which makes it easier to dissolve nutritional components that are difficult to dissolve in water, has become widely known as an easy-to-drink and delicious tea, especially in the Kanto region. Nibancha bathed in warm sunshine. Mild and refreshing mouthfeel. About 40~50 days after the harvest of Ichibancha, which has accumulated plenty of sweetness, the tea leaves that have been bathed in the early summer sun are the second tea. Nibancha, which has increased catechins due to sunlight, has a stronger astringency and bitterness, but it is mild by the deep steaming method. The difference is obvious! If you want to drink second tea, try deep steamed tea. Green tea, which has a refreshing aftertaste and a slightly astringent cloudiness, is ideal for when you want to change your mind. Please use it to take a break from housework and childcare, or to accompany you at work or working from home. You can drink plenty of it every day! Compared to shallowly steamed tea leaves, it has a structure that allows you to take in the nutrients of important tea. The ingredients of the tea are easy to leach, so you can enjoy it deliciously with either HOT ICE. For breakfast, dinner, and afternoon snacks, start your daily tea routine. My tea habit that I continue every day. "Let's get through the stressful modern world!"

Raw materials and ingredients

Green tea (from Shizuoka Prefecture)