Winter Hōjicha (冬ほうじ茶), 50 grams
Yabukita cultivar, shūtōbancha (秋冬番茶) harvest: early October till early November
This Winter Hōjicha comes from tea farmer Koichi Tōzaka (東坂幸一), who claims hōjicha as his favourite type of tea.
Tōzaka has many great teas, but it is his hōjicha teas that we have fallen in love with first.
This Winter Hōjicha is harvested around October/November, a little after the normal autumn harvest (秋番茶) period.
Woody notes, with a hint of a forest campfire, toasted sweet brioche bread, softly sweet caramel, nutty hazelnut & chestnut notes and velvety smooth.
This tea is the comforting gentle friend you want to curl up with on the coach to read a book.
