Our sencha green tea is extremely popular for a reason. It’s a quintessential green tea that is all the best things about a green tea and can win over even nonenthusiasts of this family of tea. As a tea that is highly dependent on conditions like the season and location where it grows, the flavour from sencha is evident through its cultivation. Sencha uses leaves from the first growth of the spring, and is said to pour their winter-stored nutrients and flavour in that first flush.
One of the great things about sencha is that its flavour is derived from the temperature of the water that you steep it in, so if you’re not fond of a piping hot cup of sencha, you may want to try something a little cooler. The hotter the temperature, the more astringent the taste will be--so if that’s not your preferred kind of tea, try it at a lower temperature to enjoy the softer and subtler flavour of this tea. You may also notice that for a green tea, the caffeine is quite low. That makes it ideal for enjoying any time of day, particularly if you’re sensitive to caffeine before bedtime. The light green of the tea is a beautiful colour to enjoy as you sip on this Sencha.
Like most green teas, our sencha blend is high in antioxidants that can combat the free radicals in your body that are often borne from stress. You can have an invigorating and healing cup of sencha that creates a built in moment for you to assess and ask yourself if you have everything you need. We steam our leaves to lock in freshness and avoid oxidation, and then they are rolled and dried to become the tea that you sip upon on a bright afternoon.
🍵 Here is how to make perfect Sencha
- Bring filtered or freshly drawn cold water to a rolling boil.
- Place 1 slightly heaping teaspoon of loose tea for each 7-9oz / 200-260ml of fluid volume in the teapot.
- Pour the boiling water into the teapot.
- Cover and let steep for 3-7 minutes according to taste (the longer the steeping time the stronger the tea).
Sencha is best prepared with water that has been boiled and let cool so that the heat doesn’t burn the leaves to create a bitter flavour. The tea is medium-bodied with considerable depth as well as a smooth finish. It is a wonderful tea for healing your mind and body with the high antioxidant content, since they clean up the free radicals that are floating in your body and undoing the damage from oxidation and stress.