The Emperor Gyokuro is a Top Shelf Japanese green tea. The flavor is exquisite and complex. Like other steamed teas, hints of seaweed and ocean persist. The liquor is a beautiful, vibrant green.
Shade grown and hand picked for sweetness and depth of flavor. Shade covering is applied to the tea bushes twenty to thirty days prior to plucking, preventing an abundance of light hitting the plants, allowing increased chlorophyll. Shade prevents L-theanine, an amino acid, from converting to catechins, which are typically bitter. High amounts of L-theanine rather than catechins are what sweetness to Gyokuro tea.
Not only does L-theanine bring smoothness and roundness of flavor to this tea, it also relaxes the body and mind. For optimum tea experience, brew this tea gong fu style.
The family we source this from seeks perfection in all the teas they produce. The Emperor Gyokuro is proof of this perfection. A sip of this tea will reveal one of the best green teas you can find. Enjoy!
Japan
Grown on farms we know by name, then blended in small batches at our tea bar in Missoula, Montana.