{"id":25823,"date":"2026-10-13T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/?post_type=product&#038;p=25823"},"modified":"2026-10-15T05:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:52:21","slug":"kirishima-sencha-zairai","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/vare\/kirishima-sencha-zairai\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirishima Sencha Zairai | Pesticide-free and artificial fertiliser-free | 2026"},"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> +80 years<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elevation:<\/strong> 317 masl<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shade:<\/strong> none<\/p>\n<p>Fertilisation: homemade compost based on rice bran, fish meal, and hijiki seaweed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cultivation method:<\/strong> Pesticide-free and artificial fertiliser-free farming (JAS-certified)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvest:<\/strong> May 4th 2026<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Production method | <span lang=\"ja\">\u88fd\u8336\u65b9\u6cd5<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Steaming: medium (futs\u016bmushi)<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Producer | <span lang=\"ja\">\u751f\u7523\u8005<\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Kazufumi Utoguchi<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: left;\">Origin | <span lang=\"ja\">\u7523\u5730<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Kirishima in Kagoshima, Japan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4><span lang=\"ja\">\u9727\u5cf6 \u714e\u8336 \u5728\u6765<\/span><\/h4>\n<h5>Sencha from Kagoshima is known for often being shaded before harvest and highly umami-focused \u2013 a style that is also reflected in the region\u2019s widespread use of modern cultivars and long <em>fukamushi<\/em> steaming times.<\/h5>\n<h5>This unshaded, medium-steamed <em>(futs\u016bmushi)<\/em> sencha from Kirishima, harvested from +80 years old <em>zairai<\/em> tea trees, is as such rather unusual; and yet these fine spring leaves present a very smooth and sweet green tea, deeply rooted in its Kagoshima origins.<\/h5>\n<h5>Grown and produced by the Utoguchi family who have cultivated their tea fields in the mountains of Kirishima without any use of pesticides or artificial fertilisers for decades, creating natural styles of Japanese tea that feel at once humble and profound.<\/h5>\n<p><em>summer grass \u2013 baked sweet potato \u2013 roasted nori seaweed<\/em><\/p>\n<h5>kr. 165,00<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[370,191,211,105],"product_tag":[150,129],"class_list":["post-25823","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-new-arrivals","product_cat-tea","product_cat-organic-farming","product_cat-sencha-tea","product_tag-kamairicha-en","product_tag-sencha-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\/25823","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=25823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=25823"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=25823"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.io-te.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=25823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}