Matcha

This ceremonial grade Matcha offers a wonderfully round and thick mouthfeel, with a characteristic vegetal umami upfront. Underlying notes of nuttiness emerge, balanced by a subtle lingonberry-like as. It leans vegetal, umami and sweet.

Water around 70–80 °C (158–176 °F). In a mug, steep 2–3 min. For gongfu, use 3–5 g per 100 ml, 15–30 s steeps. You'll get to see how the flavor changes across multiple rounds. The biggest mistake with green tea is using boiling water. Keep it well below that and you won't get bitterness.

Grown in Uji, Kyoto, Japan.

Starts at $39.43 from Teemaa, or about $1.31/g. A 30g package gets you around 5 gongfu sessions at ~6 g each, which works out to about $7.86 per session. Explore more green teas on Teadar.