{"id":10487,"date":"2020-12-10T14:44:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/vare\/tsukigase-sencha-hoji-natural-farming-2013\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T21:01:00","slug":"tsukigase-sencha-houji","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/vare\/tsukigase-sencha-houji\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsukigase Sencha-h\u014dji | Natural farming | 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Description | \u8a73\u7d30<\/span><\/h4>\n

Tsukigase Kenk\u014d Chaen is one of few contemporary Japanese tea farmers and producers who work actively with intentional aging of their green leaf teas. Tsukigase Sencha-h\u014dji – a rather unorthodox genre of roasted (h\u014dji)<\/em> Sencha coined by Tsukigase Kenk\u014d Chaen themselves <\/em>– is one of the most striking examples of their vintage production.<\/p>\n

The tea leaves were harvested during the early spring harvest in May 2017 from 25-50 year old Yabukita tea trees grown in a single naturally farmed tea garden nestled in the mountains <\/em>surrounding the Tsukigase valley. Immediately after harvest, the tea leaves were allowed to wither lightly \u2013 a processing step known in Japan as \u840e\u51cb\u9999<\/span> ich\u014dka<\/em> which at Tsukigase Kenk\u014d Chaen gently takes place in the shade of trees from the nearby forest. The tea leaves have then been made into Sencha and aged until autumn 2022, when the tea was completed with a light roast.<\/p>\n

The ich\u014dka<\/em> step combined with the extended maturation period and light degree of roasting bestow Tsukigase Sencha-h\u014dji with a unique semi-oxidized profile with certain Oolong associations. A deep aroma \u2013 almost as if it were incense \u2013 diffuses expansively from the first infusion onwards with notes of ripe stone fruit, hay and kinako.<\/em> The aromatic sensations are similarly reflected in the cup complemented by a pronounced sense of warmth from the final roasting process. Present on the palate, too, is a moderate sense of tannins, reminding us of the tea\u2019s non-shaded Sencha origin while gradually transforming into a naturally sweet aftertaste.<\/p>\n

The body sensation is warming in the stomach and comfortably calming, and the tea leaves offer a minimum of 4-5 good brews at gradually higher temperatures.<\/p>\n

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Tea trees | \u8336\u6a39<\/span><\/h4>\n

Cultivar:<\/strong> Yabukita<\/p>\n

Age:<\/strong> 25-50 years<\/p>\n

Elevation:<\/strong> 250 masl<\/p>\n

Shade:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n

Fertilisation:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n

Cultivation method:<\/strong> natural farming and certified organic (read more about organic and natural farming here<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n

Harvest:<\/strong> May 2017<\/p>\n

Production method | \u88fd\u8336\u65b9\u6cd5<\/span><\/h4>\n

Steaming:<\/strong> medium (futs\u016bmushi<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Withering: <\/strong>approx. 12 hours in the shade of trees<\/p>\n

Roasting:<\/strong> lightly roasted<\/p>\n

Producer | \u751f\u7523\u8005<\/span><\/h4>\n

Tsukigase Kenk\u014d Chaen \u6708\u30f6\u702c\u5065\u5eb7\u8336\u5712<\/span> under the direction of Fumiaki Iwata \u5ca9\u7530\u6587\u660e<\/span><\/p>\n

Origin | \u7523\u5730<\/span><\/h4>\n

Tsukigase in Nara, Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u6708\u30f6\u702c \u714e\u8336\u7119\u3058\u8336<\/span><\/h4>\n
2017 vintage light-roasted ich\u014dka<\/em> Sencha from naturally farmed Yabukita tea trees grown and produced by Tsukigase Kenk\u014d Chaen in Tsukigase, Nara.<\/h5>\n
ripe apricot, hay, kinako<\/em><\/h5>\n

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kr. 175,00<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[210,191,207,111],"product_tag":[129,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-10487","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-natural-farming","7":"product_cat-tea","8":"product_cat-tsukigase-kenko-chaen-nara","9":"product_cat-unika-tea","10":"product_tag-sencha-en","11":"product_tag-unika-en","13":"first","14":"outofstock","15":"taxable","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"product-type-variable","18":"has-default-attributes"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/10487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}