{"title":"For Chelsea","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"dento-hon-gyokuro-mare","title":"Yame Gyokuro \"Sen\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eYame is a special place. It is defined by dramatic mountains and cascading waterfalls. It is also known to produce the best Gyokuro in Japan, making it home to the traditional craftsmanship for this kind of tea. Over 100 years of experience making Gyokuro lives in Yame and thus, the tea that comes from here has set the standard for Gyokuro around the world for a very long time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGyokuro depends on shade, and the best ones are grown in the valleys of mountains where there is little direct sunlight. The narrow river valleys of the Yame region create the ideal conditions for these tea trees, and they are able to flourish naturally, without much human intervention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDry, the tea leaves smell warm, like fresh popcorn. They brew quite an opaque liquor, leaving pale green, lettuce-looking leaves in the gaiwan after the first infusion. A slight bitterness gives the first and second infusions a sencha like profile, offset by this tea's unique, slick mouthfeel. This is a grassy and vibrant gyokuro with a hint of astringency that lifts it upwards. It gets sweeter, and even a bit tropical, through infusions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cultivate Tea","offers":[{"title":"50g","offer_id":47359803851032,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0091\/5737\/8153\/files\/615A6559_8d8478df-d016-4ba3-b4d1-bc2abd4999bf.jpg?v=1765917434"},{"product_id":"yame-sencha-kabusecha","title":"Yame Kabusecha","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe mountainous part of the Yame region is called Oku-Yame. Its elevation and inverted climate means it is prone to fog, which acts like a veil over the tea fields that grow there. This natural protection causes the tea plants to store nutrients in their leaves, eventually resulting in a tea rich in an umami flavor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKakuda Seicha is from a tea farming family in Kamyo-cho of Yame City in Oku-yame. Three generations previous to him, his ancestors built a small tea factory with the intention of producing genuine Oku-Yame tea that reflects the virtues of this mountainous terroir. Kakuda's relationship with this region, and the practice of farming and crafting tea there, runs very deep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSimilar to gyokuro, this green tea is crafted using the \"covering\" method before the leaves are harvested. The tea bushes are shaded with nets for roughly a week, blocking sunshine and causing the tea plants to produce an increased amount of catechins and L-theanine. This method is famous as a technique for suppressing bitterness, while increasing the sweetness and umami in the finished tea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs we would expect, Kabusecha is a deep, forest green color and has a distinctive \"covered\" aroma, similar to gyokuro. It brews a refreshing, glowing, yellow liquor that gets sweeter through infusions. This is an excellent green tea for those who appreciate something mellow on the palate, dislike bitterness, but who love the revitalizing, eye-widening impact of sencha.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cultivate Tea","offers":[{"title":"100g","offer_id":51352537432344,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0091\/5737\/8153\/files\/615A6470_bc341c67-7128-4d7b-ab5b-acde9de8c4d0.jpg?v=1765586762"},{"product_id":"shizuoka-gyokuro-urarake","title":"Shizuoka Gyokuro \"Uraraka\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eShizuoka is so famous for its vast mountains and sencha, it took us a couple visits before we could look past these things and dive more deeply into its other treasures. We shouldn't have been surprised that fantastic gyokuro is produced here, but this tea has wowed us nonetheless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGyokuro production depends on shade, and the best ones are grown in the valleys of mountains where there is little direct sunlight. This makes the expansive mountain range and fertile valleys of Shizuoka an excellent place to grow gyokuro.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnique to the making of gyokuro is that, at a certain point, the entire field is covered with screens designed to filter out even more light. This stresses the tea trees, causing them to strive for sunlight, increasing the amount of the amino acid l-theanine in their leaves. This constant striving for sun is what gives gyokuro its distinct mouthfeel, nutritional properties, and rich flavor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMade from a rare varietal, Uraraka is only produced in very small quantities. This is a benchmark gyokuro for people looking for balanced, intense greenery. Dry, it smells very inviting, like concrete and cacao. Its taste lands pleasantly between a sencha and a gyokuro, with a forward astringency and grassy quality softened by a weighty, shade-grown mouthfeel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cultivate Tea","offers":[{"title":"100g","offer_id":51355743256856,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0091\/5737\/8153\/files\/20251202_Cultivate_12431_WEB.jpg?v=1765916940"}],"url":"https:\/\/cultivatetea.com\/collections\/for-chelsea.oembed","provider":"Cultivate Tea","version":"1.0","type":"link"}