{"id":11086,"date":"2026-08-03T15:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=11086"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:42:30","slug":"yamazoe-bancha","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/vare\/yamazoe-bancha\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamazoe Kumano Bancha | Natural farming | 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Description | <span lang=\"ja\">\u8a73\u7d30<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Yamazoe Kumano Bancha is harvested in early June and consists of late spring shoots as well as full-grown tea leaves that escaped the early spring harvest in May. The mature Bancha material is slightly coarser in character compared to the finer Kamairicha teas from the May harvest. But Yamazoe Kumano Bancha is still a tea of excellent quality; rich in sweetness and warmth from the final roasting with natural notes of ripe stone fruits, cacao, and mild tobacco. <\/p>\n<p>The body sensation is gently calming and warm, making Yamazoe Bancha enjoyable during late evenings as well \u2013 in fact, \u2018Bancha\u2019 is commonly written in the Kumano region (of which the Yamazoe area is a part) with the characters<span lang=\"ja\">\u300c\u6669\u8336\u300d<\/span> <em>bancha,<\/em> that is, \u2018evening tea\u2019, instead of the more conventional spelling<span lang=\"ja\">\u300c\u756a \u8336 \u300d<\/span> which refers primarily to the mature nature of the leaves.<\/p>\n<p>As with the other Kamairicha teas from Mitocha N\u014den, the tea leaves are harvested from tea trees grown by natural farming methods (\u81ea\u7136 \u8fb2 \u6cd5 shizen n\u014dh\u014d) without any use of pesticides and fertilizers. After an initial \u2018kill-green\u2019 (<span lang=\"ja\">\u6bba\u9752<\/span> <em>sassei)<\/em> step, the tea leaves are carefully rolled, sun-dried, and finally pan-fried <span lang=\"ja\">(kamairi)<\/span> \u2013 a traditional and today rare form of semi-oxidized Japanese tea from the Kumano region which in its processing method resembles certain forms of Chinese and Taiwanese oolongs. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Tea trees | <span lang=\"ja\">\u8336\u6a39<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Cultivar:<\/strong> Yabukita<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> unknown<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elevation:<\/strong> 300-400 masl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shade:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fertilisation:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultivation method:<\/strong> natural farming (read more about organic and natural farming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/organic-and-natural-farming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvest:<\/strong> June 2026<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Production method | <span lang=\"ja\">\u88fd\u8336\u65b9\u6cd5<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Drying:<\/strong> two days in sunny weather <\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Producer | <span lang=\"ja\">\u751f\u7523\u8005<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Mr and Mrs Kayashita<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Origin | <span lang=\"ja\">\u7523\u5730<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Yamazoe in Nara, Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4><span lang=\"ja\">\u5c71\u6dfb \u718a\u91ce\u6669\u8336<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5 data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"183\">Sun-dried kamairicha made in the local Kumano Bancha style, grown by natural farming methods and harvested in early June by the young husband and wife team of Mr and Mrs Kayashita in Yamazoe village, Nara.<\/h5>\n<h5 data-start=\"185\" data-end=\"393\">A rural and today rare form of bancha, offering a soothing and wholesome tea with deep notes of roasted warmth, natural sweetness, and a gently calming body sensation.<\/h5>\n<p><em>pipe tobacco \u2013 liquorice root \u2013 dark chocolate<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[151,205,210,370,191],"product_tag":[131,150,135],"class_list":["post-11086","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-kamairicha-tea","product_cat-mitocha-noen-yamazoe","product_cat-natural-farming","product_cat-new-arrivals","product_cat-tea","product_tag-hojicha-en","product_tag-kamairicha-en","product_tag-unika-en","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable","has-default-attributes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/11086","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=11086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=11086"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=11086"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=11086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}