Green · Uji, Kyoto, Japan
Uji Matcha
High caffeine
A stone-ground green tea from Uji with a velvety body, vivid umami, and a softly sweet finish.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 70 °C · 158 °F
- Leaf
- 1.5 g
- Water
- 70 ml
- First steep
- 0:15
- Steeps
- 1
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Brew guide
Sift the powder, add a small amount of cool water, then whisk with warm water until the surface is fine and even.
Aroma notes
young greens · sweet cream · fresh sea air
Tasting notes
rounded umami · silky texture · gentle sweetness
Harvest
April–May
Making
Planting 
Shading 
Plucking 
Steaming 
Milling
Origin
Uji, Kyoto · Japan
Between Kyoto's hills, the Uji river's mist softens the light. Under the shading nets the leaf keeps its sugars and its umami.
Lore
Powdered tea reached Japan in 1191 with the monk Eisai, and Uji's shaded gardens have refined it since the fourteenth century. Whisked rather than steeped, it is the tea of the chanoyu ceremony, and the only tea you drink whole.
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