Gold Medal Gyokuro3JGG Harvest: 24.04.2020
Origin: Japan / Fukuoka / Yame / Kirogi
Height: 300 m.a.s.l
Tea plant varietal: Saemidori
Japan's very best Gyokuro of 2020. This tea won first place of the first rank of the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries National Award. Available only in smallest amounts and produced by Jyo Masafumi.
Character:
A taste of young rice with a subtle sweetness, at times gently reminding of cherry leaves and simultaneously with much Umami and notes of vegetables. Delicate, elegant and at the same time intense.
Category:
Gyokuro Gyokuro are the noblest teas in Japan, the name meaning drop of jade dew. For this tea, only leaves of overshadowed tea bushes are used. By casting a shadow on the bushes, their growth slows down. This results in more amino acids and chlorophyll in the leaves and consequently a more pronounced umami and sweet taste, less catechins and therefore less bitter substances. To produce Gyokuro, the tea bushes are overshadowed for twenty-one days before the plucking. Gyokuro teas are very dense and aromatic.
