This tea of exceptionally high quality is grown at the tea gardens surrounding the residence of MaikoTea's renowned tea expert Yamashita Toshikazu. He watches daily over the production of this most exquisite premium tea and makes sure that every step of the cultivation is done with great care and skillfulness.
The Yamashita Gyokuro has a condensed sweet taste with a characteristic ambrosial fragrance and extremely gentle flavour.
The production of this 'expert' tea is limited to a few kilograms a year since it's processing is extremely tedious and time consuming. Being of such high quality the thick tea leaves maintain their pleasant flavor even up to 4-5 servings.

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MaikoTea's renowned tea expert Yamashita Toshikazu produces this 'Takumi' tea with great particularity and conscientiousness. The resulting flavor is a mellow but distinguished sweetness which many highly extol.
The thick leaves create an emerald colored beverage with a soft palate texture. The high quality tea maintains its good flavor even up to 4-5 servings.

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In contrast to the very popular 'Shincha' (freshly harvested tea) Nomigoro belongs to the 'Kuradashi Cha' (out of the storehouse tea) category. As with good wine it takes many years to mature it's distinct flavor. Tea expert Yamashita Toshikazu keeps this Gyokuro in a designated cold store for about 5 years to create an especially potent sweetness and mellow flavor.
The thick leaves create an emerald colored beverage with a soft palate texture. The high quality tea maintains its good flavor even up to 4-5 servings.

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Once a year the highest evaluating authority in the world of Japanese tea holds a national tea exhibition. This 'Shuppin Gyokuro' (exhibition Gyokuro) is a blend of Gyokuro teas which were carefully selected and closely examined at this exhibition.
Please enjoy the taste of this special tea which combines the labor of many tea farmers, who have presented the best of their crop at the national exhibition.
Whith the typical sweet taste of this Gyokuro please also delight in the beautiful color and shape of the emerald tea leaves.

This blend was produced under tea expert Yamashita Toshikazu's supervision.

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Among the Yamashita Gyokuro this tea is the most affordable. It could be called the 'initiation' into the compilation of Yamshita teas.
When infused with water in lower temperatures it emanates a soft and sweet aroma; when affused with hotter water it will leave a clean and refreshing aftertaste.
This is a wonderful gift item for someone special who understands the difference of teas.

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Kyotanabe, the location of our company, is famous for its superior Gyokuro cultivation. This our Yashiki Gyokuro was served to the Emperor and his wife last year during their stay in London / England (May 2007).Please try our assortment of 5 high quality Gyokuro.

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