(sold out) #0557.S2 Handpicked Fukamushicha Blend by Award-Winning, 15th Generation Farmer, Okutomi Masahiro

From 7-time Minister's Award Winning, 15th generation tea farmer Masahiro Okutomi (Okutomi Tea Garden, Sayama, Saitama), a rare handpicked fukamushicha blend. Fukamushi - or deep steaming - was invented to give tea leaves a better flavor profile despite being lower grade leaves. To use it on handpicked leaves is rare as the connoisseur market in Japan general likes the delicacy of light steaming for carefully handpicked leaves. As an experiment, Okutomi-san decided to try deep steaming some of his handpicked harvest this year.

• Ingredients: Green tea
• Harvest: April
  
• Region: Sayama, Saitama
• Cultiver: Saeakari