{"id":25180,"date":"2026-05-29T10:42:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=25180"},"modified":"2026-05-29T22:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T20:55:28","slug":"tsukigase-kocha-benifuuki-2024","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/vare\/tsukigase-kocha-benifuuki-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsukigase K\u014dcha Benif\u016bki | Natural farming | 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Tea trees | <span lang=\"ja\">\u8336\u6a39<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Cultivar:<\/strong> Benif\u016bki<\/p>\n<p><strong>Age:<\/strong> 20 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elevation:<\/strong> 250 masl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shade:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fertilisation: <\/strong>none (but dry fallen leaves from surrounding forests are being scattered among the tea trees every year)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Farming method:<\/strong> natural farming \u2013 but also certified organic (read more about organic and natural farmin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/organic-and-natural-farming\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvest:<\/strong> May 2024<\/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\u7d05\u8336\u3000\u3079\u306b\u3075\u3046\u304d<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5>Spring-harvested wak\u014dcha black tea made from the classic Japanese black tea cultivar Benif\u016bki, with rich notes of fragrant wood and a deep muscatel-like sweetness.<\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"p1\">The carefully oxidized whole spring leaves slowly unfold, bearing witness to tea farmer Fumiaki Iwata\u2019s decades-long dedication to crafting an original Japanese black tea of the highest quality.<\/h5>\n<h5>The result is a deeply aromatic and layered wak\u014dcha, beautifully expressing its mountainous origin \u2014 grown by natural farming methods without any use of pesticides or fertilising in Tsukigase, Nara.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><em>forest berries \u2013 sandalwood \u2013 muscatel<\/em><\/p>\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=\"350px\" height=\"auto\"><\/p>\n<h5>kr. 125,00<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[106,210,370,191,207],"product_tag":[395],"class_list":{"0":"post-25180","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-black-tea","7":"product_cat-natural-farming","8":"product_cat-new-arrivals","9":"product_cat-tea","10":"product_cat-tsukigase-kenko-chaen-nara","11":"product_tag-sort-te-en","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"taxable","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-variable","19":"has-default-attributes"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/25180","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=25180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=25180"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=25180"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=25180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}