| In the early spring, farmers in the Uji district, traditional center of the Japanese tea industry, cover the tender young leaves with bamboo screens to protect them from the afternoon sun. While most farmers use these shade-grown leaves to produce Matcha, the green tea powder used in the tea ceremony, the Nagata family processes these prized leaves into Sencha, the highest quality leaf. The bud and top two leaves are cut, steamed, rolled into tight curls, dried slowly in ovens, then packed to seal in the fresh taste and aroma of just-picked tea. In order to insure the richest, most authentic green tea flavor, Haiku Green Tea teabags are always two full grams of 100% Nagata Japanese Organic Sencha Tea, the finest quality in the world. True connoisseurs of Japanese green tea will drink nothing else. |
