{"id":18728,"date":"2026-07-02T10:01:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=18728"},"modified":"2026-07-31T19:37:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T17:37:53","slug":"tsukigase-sencha-hoji-2023","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/vare\/tsukigase-sencha-hoji-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsukigase Sencha-h\u014dji | Natural farming | 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Tea trees | <span lang=\"ja\">\u8336\u6a39<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Cultivar:<\/strong> Zairai<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> +50 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elevation:<\/strong> 250 masl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shade:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fertilisation:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultivation method:<\/strong> natural farming and certified organic (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>Harvest: May 2023<\/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>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wilting: <\/strong>approximately 12 hours in the shade of trees from the nearby forest<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roasting:<\/strong> light roasting<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Producer | <span lang=\"ja\">\u751f\u7523\u8005<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fumiaki Iwata<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Origin | <span lang=\"ja\">\u7523\u5730<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Tsukigase in Nara, Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4><span lang=\"ja\">\u6708\u30f6\u702c\u3000\u714e\u8336\u307b\u3046\u3058<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5>Lightly roasted sencha from a single tea garden of more than 50-year-old zairai tea trees, grown by natural farming methods without any use of pesticides or fertilisers in Tsukigase, Nara.<\/h5>\n<h5>Following their spring harvest, the young tea leaves undergo a light oxidation through wilting, revealing rich, almost oolong-like aromas \u2013 known in Japanese as <em>ich\u014dka.<\/em><\/h5>\n<h5>An extensive aging period further enhances the tea\u2019s fragrant <em>ich\u014dka<\/em> character, while a gentle final roasting imparts a comforting sense of warmth and depth.<\/h5>\n<h5>The result is a rare semi-oxidized Japanese tea quite unlike any other \u2013 offering a unique expression in-between sencha, h\u014djicha, and oolong.<\/h5>\n<h6><em>mikan mandarin \u2013 kinako \u2013 roasted chestnut<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/oeko-labels_io_ny_lavres-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300px\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>kr. 175,00<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[100,210,370,191,207,111],"product_tag":[129,135],"class_list":["post-18728","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-hojicha-tea","product_cat-natural-farming","product_cat-new-arrivals","product_cat-tea","product_cat-tsukigase-kenko-chaen-nara","product_cat-unika-tea","product_tag-sencha-en","product_tag-unika-en","first","instock","taxable","shipping-taxable","product-type-variable","has-default-attributes"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/18728","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=18728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=18728"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=18728"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=18728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}