Samidori Single Cultivar Matcha by Master Tea Farmer Tsuji Kiyoharu
This top-shelf matcha from the Samidori cultivar makes a light and creamy bowl of matcha. Exceptionally smooth, this is a nuanced and balanced single cultivar hand-picked artisan matcha - very hard to find in today's crazy matcha scene.
Crafted in Shirakawa, Uji by Tsuji Kiyoharu, winner of the 2017 Prime Minister's Award for Agriculture, this tea showcases what's possible with innovative garden management. His approach - using unpruned trees harvested once annually and purely organic fertilizers - yields teas with some of the highest recorded levels of amino acids and theanine. Each batch undergoes 40 days of canopy shading before being meticulously hand-picked from the region's distinctive red clay soils.
Stone ground March 2025, each 20-gram portion provides approximately ten usucha servings when prepared in the traditional 2-gram measure.
Each 20 gram order comes in a Steeping Room can with the oxygen free 20 gram bag tucked inside.
$ 37.00