Ureshino Tamaryoku Sencha, Saga Prefecture, 50g - 2025 SHINCHA

Ureshino Tamaryoku Sencha Sencha - 2025 Shincha (New Harvest Tea)Origin: Ureshino, Saga Prefecture, KyushuCultivar: YabukitaInfuses to a light green color, and stays very smooth through 3-4 infusions. The taste displays amami (sweetness) with slightly nutty and herbaceous notes. Tamaryoku refers to the rolling method of production where the leaves are rolled into a ball, or coiled, instead of the more prevalent needle shape rolling technique used much more widely in Japan. The resulting "comma" shaped leaves often infuse to a golden-yellow or light golden-green tea. It is the common rolling technique used in the Kyushu Prefectures of Saga (Ureshino Teas), Nagasaki (Sonogi Teas), Kumamoto, and Miyazaki. It is also referred to a "Guri-Cha" (curly tea), most often in Nagasaki and Kumamoto, but both terms are used in different parts of Japan when referring to Tamaryokucha.Ureshino has a long history of tea growing in Japan going back over 500 years, with techniques brought from China. It i