Matcha - Organic Green Tea
This matcha is classic, strong, and vegetal with a taste including both sweet and bitter. Great for a cooking ingredient or sipping informally.
While this tea is grown and made in China, the actual tea plants, the tea making equipment, and the matcha tea making technique are all imported from Japan.
Matcha is a unique way of making and serving tea that first developed in Japan in the 12th century. To produce matcha, they usually begin with a very-high grade, shade grown, Japanese steamed green tea. Then, the finished green tea is ground into a very fine powder with a stone mortar and pestle; and stored in airtight containers. Since this ground/powdered green tea is whisked into the hot water, you end up consuming the entire leaf itself, not just drinking the steeped liquid as the leaves are thrown away (as is the case with most teas). Matcha is the tea used in the Japanese tea ceremony.