Matcha Pine Forest is a premium ceremonial grade matcha specially grown and selected for Zhao Zhou tea.
This matcha is superb in usucha preparations.
This tea comes from one of Uji, Japan's ancient tea gardens. This garden is part of a temple that has been tended by the same family for over 16 generations. This degree of proficiency echoes in their teas, giving them refined and extremely balanced flavors supplemented with beautiful elegance.
Matcha (抹茶), the powdered green tea, is the zenith of the Japanese tea ceremony. Similar to Gyokuro, the tea plants are shaded for three weeks before being harvested so that the leaves stay small, fresh, and juicy, making their taste sweeter and softer. Like any other Japanese green tea, after plucking, the leaves are steamed and dried. Then, having carefully selected the leaves, they are milled into a soft, bright green powder. This powder tea is prepared with a bamboo chasen (茶筅, tea whisk) in a chawan (茶碗, tea bowl). The result is an emerald-coloured liquid with rather intense greenish flavour and a sweet, light, jade-like foam.
