Tsuyuhikari Tamaryokucha from Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms

Tsuyuhikari Tamaryokucha

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Green Tea
Flavors
Grain, Smooth, Spinach, Umami, Vegetal, Asparagus, Bitter, Freshly Cut Grass, Grass, Kabocha, Kale, Seaweed, Squash, Thick, Vegetables, Marine
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Caffeine
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Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 0 min, 45 sec 6 g 10 oz / 300 ml

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  • “Sipdown! (56 | 260) Finishing off the set of sample packets from a tea club shipment from last year. Also my first time trying this tea! The leaves of this tea are quite small and broken, and...” Read full tasting note
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  • “Another session at work. I was juggling a bunch of things so wasn’t able to contemplate while sipping. The leaves were more broken than the other Obubu teas I’ve sampled and looked more like a...” Read full tasting note
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From Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms

This Tamaryokucha has an amazing, vivid green colour and offers a rich mellow taste with a refreshing astringency.
This tea is made from the Tsuyuhikari cultivar that is known for its umami and sweet flavor. Tsuyuhikari Tamaryokucha is a well-balanced tea, with the delicate sweetness that its cultivar is known for.

Taste: Rich
Body: Full
Texture: Thick
Length: Long
Harvest: May
Tea Cultivar: Tsuyuhikari
Origin: Higashi-Sonogi, Nagasaki pref
Cultivation: Unshaded
Processing: 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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Sipdown! (56 | 260)

Finishing off the set of sample packets from a tea club shipment from last year. Also my first time trying this tea!

The leaves of this tea are quite small and broken, and steep up to a bright but cloudy green-yellow liquor. It has a strong, intense vegetal flavor that reminds me of fukamushi sencha, along with a pleasant nuttiness. No bitterness or astringency to speak of.

I had this a few hours ago and didn’t really take notes, so I’ll have to write a better tasting note next time, ha ha…

https://www.instagram.com/p/COHWxpoASYB/

Flavors: Grain, Smooth, Spinach, Umami, Vegetal

Preparation
160 °F / 71 °C 0 min, 45 sec 10 g 10 OZ / 300 ML
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Another session at work. I was juggling a bunch of things so wasn’t able to contemplate while sipping. The leaves were more broken than the other Obubu teas I’ve sampled and looked more like a standard sencha. Slightly cloudy, yellow-tinged liquor with a smooth flavor and a vegetal undertone of raw broccoli. No astringency as expected with this style. I still prefer Ureshino tamaryokucha though as it has a tad brighter, fresher flavor.

Thanks for sharing Cameron!

Flavors: Marine, Vegetal

Preparation
165 °F / 73 °C 1 min, 0 sec 4 g 14 OZ / 400 ML
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