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Mare - Uji Matcha
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Category
matcha
Powder
Brand & origin
Brand
Arita Sansuien
Origin
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Profile
Strength
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No score
Caffeine
high
Unknown amount
Flavour notes
Top flavour notes
Creamy
Top aroma notes
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Ingredients & certifications
Ingredients
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Certifications
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Brewing
Method
koicha
Temp
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Time
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Leaf
4g
Water
30ml
Community
Rating
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0 reviews
Taste balance
Sweet74
Sour0
Salty0
Bitter5
Umami82
Overview
This velvety koicha has notes of chashews and cream and is blended from top-grade hand-picked and machine-picked tencha. This blended tencha is then rounded out by gentle drying and heating over binchotan charcoal, a traditional practice now almost extinct in Japan. The name Mare (希) means "Rarity". Producer: Arita Sansuien Region: Uji, Kyoto (Jōyō, Hachiman, Kumiyama, Ide, Wazuka)Cultivar: Blend: Samidori (hand and machine-picked), Asahi (hand-picked), Uji-Hikari (hand-picked), Okumidori (machine)Harvested: April-May, 2025Picking: Hand and Machine PickedShaded: 25-58 Days