Ippodo Tea Co. Gyokuro Japanese Shade-Grown Green Tea

Gyokuro is Japan's most prized green tea, shade-grown for three weeks before harvest to amplify chlorophyll and L-theanine. The result is a tea unlike any other — intensely savory, ocean-sweet, and deeply umami-rich with a brilliant jade-green liquor. Ippodo's Kanro is grown, processed, blended, and packaged entirely in Kyoto by the same family business since 1717 — the classic introduction to true Japanese gyokuro.

• Origin: Kyoto, Japan
• Shade-grown before harvest to maximize umami
• Brew temp: 140–150°F / 60–65°C (low & slow), or cold brew
• Steep time: 90–120 seconds, re-brewable up to 3 times
• Size: 1.76oz / 50g — approximately 5 servings

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