2024 harvest - use by date 2025 December 

Single cultivar sencha, yumewakaba from Sayama by the 15th generation Okutomi family. It is recommended to be brewed at slightly higher temperature than our usual sencha from Yame. It has a smooth and milky texture, gentle scent that is reminiscent of peaches. A light umami and well balanced astringency overall.

Ichoucha literally translates to withered tea. After the leaves are picked, instead of going straight to steaming like the usual process of sencha (steamed Japanese green tea), the leaves are left withering in the room for a few hours before going into the steaming process.

A departure of the stronger umami profile of sencha from Yame, we like ichoucha for its refreshing and floral or fruit like profile (by withering the picked tea leaves before making tea, it activates the oxidase in the leaves and makes the fragrance like flowers and fruits).