Teas for Everyday Drinking
What an everyday tea has to do is stay interesting and hold its flavor even when you brew it roughly. The teas here meet both conditions.
A tea with a striking flavor makes an impression, and it can start to feel heavy if you drink it every day. What you see here has a light finish and resists turning astringent when the water temperature or the steeping time drifts. Most of them give many infusions.
Teas for Everyday Drinking
Ancient White Tea ( Gushu Bai Cha ) 古樹白茶
A white tea from the first flush of naturally grown tea over 2,000m, from trees several hundred years old. A substantial floral aroma with real depth. Excellent cold-brewed.
From ¥1,900 (50g)
Anxi Se Zhong 安渓色種
An oolong combining several Anxi cultivars so that each draws out the others' aroma and finish. A concentrated sweet aroma of dried fruit and caramel, alongside florals.
From ¥650 (30g)
Tsukigase Black Tea Benihikari 月ヶ瀬紅茶 ベニヒカリ
A black tea from Beni Hikari, grown without agrochemicals or fertiliser in Tsukigase, Nara. Bright aromas of muscat, pineapple and honey, a faint menthol note, and a long finish.
From ¥1,300 (30g)
Dong Ding Jin Xuan Oolong Tea Deep Fired 凍頂 金萱烏龍茶 炭焙
Jin Xuan from Dongdingshan in Lugu, roasted long at a gentle heat to avoid scorching and then aged, finishing with aromas of chestnut and dried fruit.
From ¥1,200 (30g)
Qing Xiang Black Tea Purple Tea 2024 清香紅茶 高山紫茶 2024
A Qing Xiang Black Tea made from Yunnan's rare high-mountain purple tea by a low-temperature process. Fermentation is held back, giving a floral aroma reminiscent of Phoenix Dan Cong with the cool lift of shiso and menthol. Ideal cold-brewed or sparkling.
From ¥1,400 (30g)
Tsukigase Zairai Sencha 月ヶ瀬在来煎茶
A naturally grown sencha from Nara, raised without agrochemicals or fertiliser. Quite unlike the umami-focused style of Japanese tea, with a floral aroma and a clear, long finish.
From ¥1,400 (50g)
Gu Shu Yinzhen 古樹銀針
Made by an ethnic-minority community in the mountains of Yunnan from a single bud and its stem, plucked from naturally grown trees several hundred years old.
From ¥2,400 (50g)
Ancient Bai Mu Dan (Gushu Bai Mu Dan ) 古樹白牡丹
A white tea from old trees in Yunnan grown without agrochemicals or fertiliser, plucked one bud and one leaf. A high proportion of buds gives it a creamy, smooth body. Excellent cold-brewed.
From ¥2,400 (50g)
Tsuge Wood-Fire Roasted Hojicha, Light Roast 都祁薪火焙茶 軽焙
A hojicha made by finishing a first-flush naturally grown sencha from Tsuge, Nara over a wood fire. Rather than the very high heat and short time of ordinary hojicha, it is roasted long at a medium temperature in the manner of oolong. Toasty, with a dried-fruit aroma.
From ¥1,600 (50g)
Yunnan Gong Fu Black tea 雲南功夫紅茶
A menthol aroma touched with honey, over floral notes. Fully fermented yet entirely free of stewed odours, with a long finish. Superb with milk and recommended for iced tea.
From ¥1,300 (30g)
Dong Ding Oolong Qing Xiang 凍頂烏龍茶 清香型
From Zhushan, near Dongdingshan. Lightly fermented, with a clear, bright aroma of orchid.
From ¥1,400 (50g)
Dong Ding Oolong ( Medium Fermentation ) 凍頂烏龍茶（中発酵）
A Dong Ding oolong from Lugu. Medium fermentation finished in the light-aroma style, with sweet ripe fruit, flowers and honey.
From ¥1,600 (30g)
Uji Genmai Cha 宇治玄米茶
A high-quality genmaicha with a long finish, developed using naturally grown native-varietal sencha. The quality of the sencha itself comes through fully.
From ¥1,900 (100g)
High Mountain Purple Black Tea 高山紫紅茶
A black tea made from Yunnan's rare purple tea. Faint notes of shiso, sweet potato and peach. Fully fermented, so it takes milk well.
From ¥900 (20g)
Wu Liang Shan Ripe Pu-erh Tea Mini Tuo Cha 2019 无量山熟茶 小沱茶 2019
Made from spring-plucked, naturally grown leaves, with a smooth body and a sweet dried-fruit aroma. No mould or smoke whatsoever, and remarkably good as a milk tea.
From ¥1,400 (50g)
Pu-erh Jasmine Pearl 普洱茉莉龍珠
A jasmine tea made to our order from naturally grown raw pu-erh we helped produce ourselves. A long finish and a substantial aftertaste that overturn what jasmine tea is assumed to be.
From ¥1,300 (30g)
Uji Hojicha Jubuzan 宇治焙茶 鷲峰山
A hojicha made by sand-roasting a sencha from the first flush of a naturally grown garden at 600m. A long finish and a clear aroma that overturn what hojicha is assumed to be.
From ¥1,500 (50g)
Jasmine Pearl 茉莉龍珠
A green tea from the first spring flush in Yunnan, plucked one bud and one leaf, rolled into pearls and scented with fresh jasmine blossom.
From ¥1,900 (50g)
Huang Jin Gui 黄金桂
An Anxi oolong given a medium roast. A bright osmanthus-like floral aroma with a toasty, dried-fruit character.
From ¥1,400 (30g)