Product Description

Tea color	Tea leaves	Brewed leaves

Our most premium green tea, Kabuse Sencha (かぶせ煎茶) or shaded tea, can be steeped into a rich syrupy tea using a warm water steeping technique because the leaves are so delicate and tender. Using a standard boiling water steeping method, and the taste is delicate and sweet.

Grown by covering the tea plants just after new leaves begin to sprout in early May, the shade reduces sunlight by as much as 85% to encourage the plants to produce wide, tender, chlorophyll-rich tea leaves. Two weeks later they are harvested and processed ready for shipping by the end of the month. Obubu’s Kabuse Sencha is grown at a relatively high altitude for the region (500 m or 1640 ft) on southeast facing slopes providing good exposure to the sun (an important combination for shaded tea!).

Obubu president and farmer, Akihiro “Akky” Kita, is tilling the space between the hedges by hand in this photo. Overturning the soil is just one of the many labor intensive work that goes into field and soil development.

Health Info
Catechin	★★
Theanine	★★★★★
Caffeine	★★★★★
Vitamin C	★★★
Chlorophyll	★★★★★
The above info are relative estimations based on cultivation and processing methods. They may also be affected by the steeping technique used, by storage conditions, etc.

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