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“The tea brews to a very light green/yellow color. The smell of the roasted rice is quite strong so if you are sensitive to smell you may not like it. Very good tasting tea though and very unique...” Read full tasting note
A little bit of luxury. Obubu’s Genmaicha or Brown Rice Tea is distinct with a buttery flavor and a nutty room-filling aroma. It is made by combining our Yanagi Bancha with roasted sweet mochi rice. The sweetness of rice mixes with the light bitterness of bancha to produce a delicious and natural tea.
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.
The tea brews to a very light green/yellow color. The smell of the roasted rice is quite strong so if you are sensitive to smell you may not like it. Very good tasting tea though and very unique flavor. I would recommend this for the fall season.
Flavors: Grass, Green, Nutty, Toasted Rice
