Description
Ureshino Tamaryoku Sencha Sencha - 2024 Shincha (New Harvest Tea)
Origin: Ureshino, Saga Prefecture, Kyushu
Cultivar: Yabukita
Infuses 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 is also famous for natural hot springs and delicious yokan (sweet bean jelly) from the town of Omi that goes perfectly with Ureshino teas.