{"id":14113,"date":"2023-04-18T22:31:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T19:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/vare\/suruga-tokujo-sencha-pesticide-and-artificial-fertiliser-free-2022\/"},"modified":"2023-12-05T14:52:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T13:52:24","slug":"suruga-tokujo-sencha","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/vare\/suruga-tokujo-sencha\/","title":{"rendered":"Suruga Tokuj\u014d Sencha | Pesticide and artificial fertiliser free | 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Description | <span lang=\"ja\">\u8a73\u7d30<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><em>Suruga Y\u016bki N\u014dj\u014d Ky\u014dd\u014d Kumiai<\/em> <span lang=\"ja\">\u3059\u308b\u304c\u6709\u6a5f\u8fb2\u5834\u5171\u540c\u7d44\u5408 <\/span>(Suruga Organic Farming Cooperative) is a cooperative of three tea producers \u2013 Sait\u014d-san, Iwasaki-san and Nishiyama-san \u2013 who cultivate and produce tea in the neighboring regions of Honyama and Shimizu, both traditional Shizuoka terroirs. Sait\u014d-san, Iwasaki-san and Nishiyama-san create both their own and collective productions with tea leaves harvested from each other&#8217;s tea gardens, and they share the same great commitment to pesticide- and artificial fertiliser free farming methods (all tea gardens of all three tea producers have been cultivated without any use of agrochemicals for several decades, certified under the Japanese organic standard JAS).<\/p>\n<p>Suruga Tokuj\u014d Sencha was harvested in spring 2022 with an equal distribution (50\/50) of tea leaves from Sait\u014d-san&#8217;s Sait\u014d Chaen in Honyama and Iwasaki-san&#8217;s Jishabatake in Shimizu. The designation <em>tokuj\u014d<\/em> <span lang=\"ja\">\u7279\u4e0a<\/span> translates to <em>&#8216;exceptional high quality&#8217;,<\/em> and it represents their finest machine-harvested sencha production. The tea leaves are 100% medium-steamed Yabukita \u2013 the classic Shizuoka cultivar <em>par excellence <\/em>\u2013 and their dark-green pine-needle-like shapes testify to the great care that went into producing them: with warm and naturally umami-rich notes reminiscent of roasted nori seaweed and ripe elderberries, Suruga Tokuj\u014d Sencha is a beautiful example of traditional Shizuoka tea.<\/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> approx. 30 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elevation:<\/strong> 350 masl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shade:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fertilisation:<\/strong> own mixture of organic fertiliser (no synthetic fertilisers)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultivation method: <\/strong>pesticide and artificial fertiliser free<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvest:<\/strong> May 3rd 2022<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Production method | <span lang=\"ja\">\u88fd\u8336\u65b9\u6cd5<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Steaming:<\/strong> medium <em>(futs\u016bmushi) ,<\/em> approx. 30 seconds)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Hi-ire:<\/em><\/strong> medium (<em>ch\u016bbi, <\/em>approx. 18 minutes) on May 5th 2022<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Producer | <span lang=\"ja\">\u751f\u7523\u8005<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sait\u014d Chaen under the leadership of Mr. Sait\u014d and Jishabatake&#8217;en under the leadership of Mr. Iwasaki<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Origin | <span lang=\"ja\">\u7523\u5730<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Honyama and Shimizu in Shizuoka prefecture, Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4><span lang=\"ja\">\u3059\u308b\u304c \u7279\u4e0a\u714e\u8336<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5>Yabukita sencha of the finest quality <em>(tokuj\u014d)<\/em> in traditional Shizuoka style.<\/h5>\n<h5>Harvested on May 3 2022 by Mr. Sait\u014d and Mr. Iwasaki as part of <em>Suruga Y\u016bki N\u014dj\u014d Ky\u014dd\u014d Kumiai<\/em> (Suruga Organic Farming Cooperative).<\/h5>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/JAS-mark.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"80px\" height=\"41px\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[191,105,240],"product_tag":[129],"class_list":{"0":"post-14113","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-tea","7":"product_cat-sencha-tea","8":"product_cat-suruga-yuki-shizuoka","9":"product_tag-sencha-en","11":"first","12":"outofstock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-variable","17":"has-default-attributes"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/14113","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=14113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=14113"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=14113"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=14113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}