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Our Fern Shoot Wakoucha is one of the rare black teas cultivated in Japan. Light and medium-bodied, it has a subtle astringency with underlying notes of dark chocolate, honey and cinnamon. Its gorgeous crimson color is supplemented by an inviting aroma of fresh timber. Made from tea cultivars rarely used for non-Japanese black teas, this is a delicate and refreshing tea.
Taste: Astringent
Body: Light
Texture: Sharp
Length: Medium
Harvest: August
Tea Cultivar: Mixed
Origin: Wazuka
Cultivation: Unshaded
Processing: Withered Rolled, Dried
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.