#0940.S5 Shibakiri Tea Garden: Hakuyo Heirloom Variety Yamabuki Bancha

The golden hued fields of Yamabuki cultivar tea are a truly mesmerizing sight. From these fields comes this very special green tea that is both fragrant and rich in umami notes. Product Info Ingredients: 100% Shizuoka-grown green tea leaves. Harvest: Spring. Cultivar: Yamabuki Cultivation Notes: Region: Mohata, Shimizu, Shizuoka. Vendor type: Family-operated farm. Producer: Tadashi Sugiyama Instructions See our steeping techniques here: yunomi.life/steep About Shibakiri Tea Garden Tea farmer Sugiyama Tadashi grows various cultivars on a few small fields in the mountain village of Mohata, Shimizu City, Shizuoka. Though the Sugiyama family had been farming since 1920, Tadashi himself inherited the farm in 2018 when his father unfortunately passed away. The tea community around him is helping to teach him to create amazing, high-grade teas at very small quantities of a few kilograms to a few dozen kilograms in some cases.