#0201.S5 Dobashien Tea #08: Kakegawa Series: Single Cultivar Sencha, Asatsuyu 煎茶 朝露Sencha Asatsuyu is a single cultivar green tea made from Shizuoka prefecture's asatsuyu cultivar, famous for naturally providing a gyokuro like taste profile filled with umami richness. It has a mellow sweetness and is often utilised for making high quality tea. Of course, one can enjoy this tea hot but the Dobashien Tea Company also recommends to try it cold steeped during the warmer seasons. When it is cold steeped, one may be pleasantly surprised

a tea farmer not only needs to be top in his own field of tea

depending on your taste preference

he has worked as a calligrapher

Region: Fujieda

an area renowned for its Mino-yaki pottery with over 1

Meister Koichi Fujiki (1962 - 2015) - Read the interview

but remains a very peaceful day trip compared to the main areas of Kyoto like Gion

use in milling small quantities

Ingredients: black tea leaves

1st steeping: Tea: 5 grams or 1 teaspoon

3000-unit lots

and some may not qualify due to their proximity to non-organic tea fields (for example)