Yame Saemidori Sencha

Tea type
Green Tea
Ingredients
Green Tea Leaves
Flavors
Broth, Creamy, Cut Grass, Herbs, Vegetables
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Caffeine
Low
Certification
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Average preparation
160 °F / 71 °C 1 min, 0 sec 4 g 3 oz / 100 ml

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  • “Above average Green Tea. I am usually more of a PuErh/Oolong person, but this tea was a nice change of pace. Very broth-y with flavors of herbs and vegetables. Very fine tea for the Spring as the...” Read full tasting note
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From Mei Leaf

A sublime, first-pluck Sencha which has been shade-grown for two weeks to enhance its depth and savoury-sweet character.

Yame is a historic tea-growing prefecture and one of the first areas to cultivate tea in Japan over 600 years ago. We have been sampling Yame tea for a number of years and finally, we fell in love with a tea to offer to our clients.

This tea was picked from gardens set up in the Taisho era (1912-1926). It is made from a single cultivar which we adore called Saemidori (cross between Asatsuyu and Yabukita). This is not just a Shincha (first flush Spring tea) – this is a FIRST-PLUCK tea which means it is the very first growths of the year picked in April.

Yame is famed for producing Gyokuro and interestingly, this tea was shade-grown similar to a Gyokuro for two weeks. This maintains higher levels of Theanine for that extra rich and brothy taste and even more of that feel-good feeling (Theanine is a mood enhancer).

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Above average Green Tea. I am usually more of a PuErh/Oolong person, but this tea was a nice change of pace. Very broth-y with flavors of herbs and vegetables. Very fine tea for the Spring as the plants begin to bloom. Each infusion brought out a sweeter undertone that was fun to explore.

Flavors: Broth, Creamy, Cut Grass, Herbs, Vegetables

Preparation
160 °F / 71 °C 1 min, 0 sec 4 g 3 OZ / 100 ML

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