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our japanese green collection

teanamu japanese green tea collection - purest steamed, subtle, leafy premium teas

Our Japanese green tea collection includes gyokuro (an exquisite, subtle and surprisingly affordable treat), genmaicha (a roasty, aromatic blend of first flush sencha and rice), deep steamed sencha (a flawless, full-bodied, silky delight) and matcha powder (a pure, light and delicate masterpiece).

Japanese green teas are renowned for their umami sweetness, suggestive of the ocean and refreshing spring greens. Along with an abundance of other fresh, clean and complex flavours, this sweetness, not sugary at all but subtle and leady, is really pronounced, especially on second and third tasting.

Umami sweetness is apparent at different intensities depending on the tea, and is directly related to how the tea was cultivated and processed. Generally, the higher grades of matcha, gyokuro and sencha that teanamu collects have a strong umami. In the case of gyokuro and matcha, this results from weeks of under-shade cultivation, which inhibits astringent (bitter) tannin formation and promotes theanine, the amino acid which we experience as umami.

It is an extraordinary testament to the care applied in the making of Japanese green tea, to see how the huge screens of rice straw or synthetic netting are erected in order to cover entire tea fields, and then dismantled after two or three weeks to once again allow direct sunlight on to the young, vitamin-rich tea plants.

Steaming is the archetypal Japanese tea-manufacture process. It serves to fix the vivid, dark, emerald colour of the leaf and preserve the natural enzymes packed with flavour. Standard steaming last for less than a minute, while deep steaming imparts a deeper colour and stronger flavour, which you will enjoy with teanamu’s deep steamed sencha.

Also unique to Japanese green tea is the rolling process where metal paddles move the tea back and forth over a series of fixed metal ridges while gentle heat is applied to slowly form the familiar thin, straight, needle-shaped leaf.

	deep steamed sencha Intense summery fragrance and a shimmering liquor sweet like mango. An elegant, satisfying cup of rich goodness.	£4.75
	genmaicha Deep jade green tea blended with fire-toasted brown rice kernels. Glorious aroma, soothing, naturally sweet.	£4.50
	ginger tangerine sencha Zesty, spicy and sweet, the sublime goodness of fresh ginger and tangerines blended with sencha.	£4.75
	gyokuro The connoisseur's green tea. Delicate liquor, fresh kelpy aroma and sweet, pure taste. Sheer exquisiteness.	£5.50
	matcha powder Create your own Zen space. Enjoy this stone-ground, foamy, emerald green tea.	£4.75
	shiso sencha Red leaf shiso adds refreshing tartness to top-tier sencha, like the Japanese pickled plum.	£5.00
	yuzu sencha Yuzu lends sencha a piquant tartness, mellow sweetness and floral aroma in this natural blend.	£4.50

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