Green · Yame, Fukuoka, Japan
Yame Gyokuro
High caffeine
A shaded Japanese green tea with concentrated umami, sweetness, and a deep seaweed-like aroma.
Recipe
- Temperature
- 50 °C · 122 °F
- Leaf
- 10 g
- Water
- 60 ml
- Steep 1
- 2:30
- Steep 2
- 0:30
- Steeps
- 2
Suggested starting point.
Time this brew with Pekoe
Brew guide
Use cool water and a patient first infusion; the low temperature keeps the cup sweet and full rather than sharp.
Aroma notes
nori · sweet corn · young greens
Tasting notes
dense umami · cool sweetness · long savory finish
Harvest
April–May
Making
Planting 
Shading 
Plucking 
Steaming 
Rolling
Origin
Yame, Fukuoka · Japan
Yame's misty valleys ripen the leaf through cool nights. This is Japan's leading gyokuro terroir.
Lore
Gyokuro, 'jade dew', emerged in the 1830s, when growers began shading bushes for weeks before the pluck. Yame's river mists deepen the effect, trading briskness for a broth-like sweetness.
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