Natural Gyokuro from Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms

Natural Gyokuro

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Clean, Creamy, Fresh, Garden Peas, Grass, Green, Kabocha, Light, Savory, Silky, Smooth, Soybean, Spinach, Sweet, Umami, Vegetal, Viscous
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Loose Leaf
Caffeine
Medium
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Not available
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Average preparation
140 °F / 60 °C 1 min, 30 sec 5 g 5 oz / 150 ml

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  • “DIY Kyoto Obubu Advent Calendar – Day 15 Just yum. This is actually less intense than I was expecting – it’s so fresh and green. It’s like newly sprouted grass poking out of the ground in the...” Read full tasting note
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From Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms

A rare tea with a silky and light umami flavour accompanied by a sweet grassy profile. Its elegant and slender dark green needles create a vibrantly pale green liquor. Shaded from the sun for three weeks before its spring harvest, Natural Gyokuro is a truly luxurious tea. This Gyokuro also provides a unique opportunity to taste a tea whose garden is in the process of becoming organic.

Taste: Light grassy sweetness
Body: Soft and viscous
Texture: Silky
Length: Medium
Harvest: May
Tea Cultivar: Yabukita
Origin: Wazuka
Cultivation: Shaded
Processing: Lightly Steamed, Rolled, Dried

About Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms View company

It started with a single cup of tea. As the legend goes, our president Akihiro Kita, or Akky-san, visited Wazuka, Kyoto one fateful day. At the time, Akky-san was still a college student in search for life's calling. After trying the region's famous Ujicha (literally meaning tea from the Uji district), he immediately fell in love and his passion for green tea was born. He had finally found what he was looking for in that one simple cup of tea. After fifteen years of learning to master the art of growing tea from tea farmers in Wazuka, Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms was born and as they say, the rest is history. So what's an Obubu? Obubu is the Kyoto slang for tea. Here in the international department we call ourselves Obubu Tea. That's "Tea Tea" for the bilinguals. We love tea so much, we just had to have it twice in our name. Now Obubu means more than just tea to us. It means, family, friends, passion and the place we call home. More than just tea. Though the roots of Obubu stem from tea, it has become more than that over the years. Obubu is an agricultural social venture, operating with three (1) bring quality Japanese tea to the world (2) contribute to the local and global community through tea (3) revitalize interest in tea and agriculture through education.

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DIY Kyoto Obubu Advent Calendar – Day 15

Just yum. This is actually less intense than I was expecting – it’s so fresh and green. It’s like newly sprouted grass poking out of the ground in the spring. So mellow and sweet, and light yet full of flavor. The texture is silky and viscous, but not too heavy on the tongue. Light, creamy vegetal notes bring to mind edamame and freshly shelled peas.

It’s just… The essence of all things light green. Freshly sprouted tea! :)

Flavors: Clean, Creamy, Fresh, Garden Peas, Grass, Green, Kabocha, Light, Savory, Silky, Smooth, Soybean, Spinach, Sweet, Umami, Vegetal, Viscous

Preparation
140 °F / 60 °C 1 min, 30 sec 5 g 5 OZ / 150 ML
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