Satsuki - Loose Leaf Green Tea

ABOUT:With so many famous tea growing regions in Japan from Shizuoka (静岡, near MountFuji) to Uji (宇治, outside of the country’s ancient capital of Kyoto) and all the way downto Yame (八女, on Japan’s southern island of Kyushu), we’re grateful to haveestablished relationships with farms and tea producers all over the country. Like wine inFrance, the terroir — or the soil, climate, and elevation — in every region in Japanproduces different teas with their own unique qualities. When guests come into our TeaMaster Green Tea Shop in Los Angeles, we enjoy chatting about what each tea offersfrom the regions we carry at any given time. One thing we’ve noticed over the years, isthat time and time again, our guests absolutely love our teas from Yame from one of ourfavorite producers, Hoshino Tea Garden, and Satsuki is their most tried-and-truesencha.Founded in 1946, the year after World War II had devastated Japan, Hoshino TeaGarden (星野製茶園) spent decades perfecting the Yame region’s most famous tea