Yame Ceremonial Grade Gyokuro Matcha Wood-fired Instead of speeding up fermentation

Instead of speeding up fermentation through artificial wet piling

starting with the dominating tangy notes of stone fruits like peach and cherry

On its own

Mini Cakes vs Regular Tea Cakes For centuries—especially during the Song and Yuan dynasties—compressed tea shapes like cakes

and comes in a gift box

Yame Ceremonial Grade Gyokuro Matcha Wood-fired Instead of speeding up fermentationThis is a slightly different kind of matcha. Most matcha is made from tencha, which is a shaded green tea thats dried flat, refined, and then ground into powder. This one, instead, is made from gyokuro. Gyokuro is also shade grown, but after steaming, the leaves go through an additional step of kneading and rolling. That process is traditionally meant to bring out more umami when brewed as a loose leaf tea. When those same leaves are turned into