Sencha products make up more than 70% of all Japanese teas on the market. People drink Sencha more than any other product in Japan. And the taste and flavor changes by production area and the season of the harvest. The tea leaf shape is like a needle. Sencha products are rich in catechins and vitamin C. And the earlier the harvest season, the more amino acids are preserved. Also, various levels of steaming are involved in the manufacturing process of these products. The most common is standard steam. However, medium steamed is growing more popular, and more products can be found on the market nowadays. Deep steamed Sencha has a smaller particle size, so please brew for a much shorter time.
Deep-steamed Sencha – Yame, Fukuoka
US$11.60CHIYONOEN’s tea fields are located in the mountains, and the mountain weather makes the tea leaves thick. Longer steaming makes the tea taste mellow and the watercolor dark green. It can be brewed easily at both lower and higher water temperatures.
Sencha Hachiju Hachiya – Yame, Fukuoka
US$16.86Harvested 1 bud and 3 leaves around hachiju hachiya – the beginning of May, and carefully processed. Enjoy the rich taste and the fragrant aroma. The little stronger firing gives you pleasant aftertaste.
Sencha Hanatsumi – Yame, Fukuoka
US$11.60The highest grade of Harashima-san’s sencha teas. Made from the earliest harvested small sprouts, and carefully processed and blended. Please try the best sencha made by Harashima-san, who is not only a organic tea farmer but also a licensed teacher of sencha tea ceremony.
Sencha Okumidori – Yame, Fukuoka
US$16.86The most popular single cultivar sencha of CHIYONOEN. Fresh aroma and a fruity aftertaste. Bright watercolor and a mild deep flavor.
To enjoy the original flavor and aroma of Okumidori, steamed a little stronger (not deep steamed) and heated a little stronger to give you a full-bodied flavor.
Sencha Megumi – Isagawa, Haruno, Shizuoka
US$11.40Very clear and refreshing light steamed sencha. Please taste leaves grown on a mountainside with abundant spring water and morning mist. It leaves you an elegant yabukita aftertaste. The leaves don’t give strongly astringent taste for 2nd and 3rd infusion. Easy-to-drink tea. Please give it a try!
Benifuki Sencha Powder – Yame, Fukuoka
US$11.26 Sold By: SONO SpecialBenifuki powder tea made by sencha leaves produced in Yame, Fukuoka.
Benifuki cultivar has methylated catechin that helps to reduce your uncomfortable itching eyes or running nose allergy symptoms.
And powder tea helps you to take whole tea leaf nutrients.
Sencha Hareru – Isagawa, Haruno, Shizuoka
US$14.57 Sold By: SONO SpecialHarvested at the end of April, the earliest season for tea picking, and processed with middle steamed. The umami flavor spreads in your mouth, leaving a slight lingering astringent taste. Enjoy the beautiful light green water color with gentle refreshing taste, the very best tea from Marusen Isagawa Tea Cooperative Association.
Sencha Yamagiri – Yame, Fukuoka
US$11.26This is Harashima-san’s best-selling sencha. The tea has a very good balance of mild taste and aroma. Good thirst-quenching refreshing taste. The remaining scent of the teacup has a sweet fruity aroma! Recommend for your daily consumption and for gift.
Sencha – Temomicha – Hand-picked – Hand-rolled – Single cultivar – Saemidori
US$32.38 Sold By: SONO SpecialThis tea is a temomicha, hand-rolled tea, with the entire process done by hand. Plenty of umami can be felt first, followed by a taste of soft astringency. It leaves an elegant aftertaste. Please enjoy the technique and taste of the master of Ikuta-ryu hand-rolling method.
Sencha – Temomicha – Hand-picked – Hand-rolled – Single cultivar – Yabukita
US$32.38 Sold By: SONO SpecialThis temomicha has a fresh taste as if you are tasting the fresh yabukita leaves, with a delicious umami on the tip of your tongue, and you can sense a touch of astringency and bitterness, too. This special tea is made by the organic tea farmer Hirayanagi-san who is the chairman of the Shizuoka Prefecture Tea Rolling Preservation Association and a master of the Ikuta-ryu tea-rolling method.
Sencha – Temomicha – Hand-picked – Hand-rolled – Single cultivar – Harumidori
US$32.38Hirayanagi-san, who is a master of hand-rolling tea making method, with his long time experience, is confident that the tea cultivar Harumidori best fits to grow in his tea fields. Please enjoy its gentle aroma and mild taste like early spring grasses. He aims to make tea that enriches the hearts of customers through his own hand-rolling technique.