Tea Tea Type Green Tea

Gyokuro Loose Tea

 
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Gyokuro Loose Tea

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Item No. MSTR315085
 
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£14.00 - £19.50

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    • Loose Tea Pouch, 50g
      £14.00
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      £19.50
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Code: MSTR315085
  • Description
    This truly extraordinary Japanese tea generates a bright green, almost luminescent infusion with a wonderfully smooth, sweet and creamy taste – we'd compare it to freshly shelled peas, lightly steamed and coated with melted butter. Sound a bit far-fetched? Just wait till you've tried it.
  • Ingredients

    Green Tea

    Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

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TEA TYPE

Green Tea

TASTE PROFILE

Fresh peas with melted butter

FOOD PAIRING

Combine traditional Japanese flavours by pairing with sushi

Numerology

NO.

26

Our Gyokuro tea might be almost neon green, but the colour is entirely natural. Tokyo first started using its famous neon signs in 1926, so we’ve given this tea the number 26.

Brew the Perfect cup

1 teaspoon (2g)

80 degrees / 200ml water

2-3 mins

Origin: Japan

Tea was first introduced to Japan around the turn of the first millennium, and since then it's become much more than just a drink: chado or "the way of tea" is a fine art for the Japanese that takes a lifetime to master. Today Japan is famous for its lush, verdant green tea, thanks to a process of steaming the leaves.

Neon-Green Tea?

We've sourced our Gyokuro from Shizuoka, perhaps the most famous of Japan's tea-growing regions. The secret behind the tea's vibrant colour and rich, buttery taste comes down to the technique of covering the bushes with blankets to protect them from the light, forcing the leaves to store up their nutrients.

Green Tea

Green tea's fresh, verdant taste is down to its processing: the leaves are heated shortly after picking, stopping the oxidation process that would eventually turn them into black tea. Some of the best green teas are found in Japan and China, where the techniques of firing or steaming the leaves have been perfected over many centuries.