Asatsuyu Sencha
Sencha
The everyday green of Japan, done properly. Our Asatsuyu (“morning dew”) sencha is steamed lightly to keep its needle-fine leaf and snap of fresh greenery. A bright, clean cup with a clean cut of astringency that wakes the palate.
Tasting notes
✦Ships within 48 hours from Shizuoka. Complimentary gift-wrapping on request.
- Steep
- 70°C · 1 min · 5g
- Infusions
- 3 re-steeps
- Harvest
- First flush, April
The Legend
For most of history, green tea was either the noble's whisked powder or a murky brown brew the common people could barely enjoy. Then, in 1738, a tea farmer named Nagatani Sōen of Ujitawara spent years perfecting a new method — steaming the fresh leaf, then rolling it by hand over a heated bed until it dried into glossy green needles.
The result was sencha: emerald in the cup, sweet and alive, and within reach of everyone. They say it changed how a whole nation drank. Our Asatsuyu cultivar — “morning dew” — is the rare leaf so naturally sweet it is called a sencha that dreams of being gyokuro.
