#0043.S5 NaturaliTea: Sencha Green Tea, Yabukita Midori First Flush 有機一番摘み煎茶 やぶきたみどり P20 dried shiso (perilla leaves) flakes

dried shiso (perilla leaves) flakes

Harvest: Late May to Early June

Quantities might be limited at certain times of the year

Controlling these factors while experimenting with one component is the perfect way to learn how to steep tea to create the flavor that most suits your own taste palette

#0043.S5 NaturaliTea: Sencha Green Tea, Yabukita Midori First Flush 有機一番摘み煎茶 やぶきたみどり P20 dried shiso (perilla leaves) flakesThe most common type of tea plant in Japan is the Yabukita cultivar, said to make up 80% of Japan's sencha production. Developed by research Hikosaburo Sugiyama in 1954 at the Shizuoka Prefectural Tea Industry Laboratory, it was selected as the recommended tea plant for the prefecture, and over the decades was adopted across Japan. In 1999, as much as 95. 6% of Japan's tea farms cultivated tea from the Yabukita tea plant cultivar. Yabukita is so