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Fresh Loose Leaf Green Tea

Green Tea

The least oxidized of teas, green varietals offer flavors ranging from vegetal and cream-like to toasty, nutty, naturally sweet, and clean.

We adhere to the standard that the “before the rain” early harvest greens, are the most nuanced and finest of the annual harvest.

In each green, we look for a rich, fresh color (se), bright aroma (xiang), delicious taste (wei) and uniform shape (xing).

We source our greens from farms and tea companies and relationships we have developed and nurtured since the early 1990s. We source green teas in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Anhui and Yunnan provinces. From Japan, we offer a selection of Ichiban-cha Senchas.

Green Tea
  • Green Snail Spring - First Grade

    Green Snail Spring - First Grade

    Green Snail Spring - "Bi Luo Chun" - embodies much of what is wonderful about the spring tea harvest. Perhaps no green tea cups to the rich flavors of the season as this one. Ours is a first-grade leaf harvested in a pluck in the first week of April...
    Flavors of asparagus, chestnut, hints of peach

  • Green Snail Spring - Select Grade

    Green Snail Spring - Select Grade

    A vegetally sweet green tea harvesting early in the spring. This year's lot is pre-Qing Ming - picked in the last week of March. The leaf is a deep green color, curled and offering high white bud content. Our select or harvest grade Green...
    Vegetal sweet, soft peach flavor.

  • organic Organic

    Gunpowder

    This lot of organic Gunpowder is a loosely-rolled with a bright, green-side leaf. Made with the same harvest period leaves as used for tightly rolled Pinhead and medium rolled versions, this lot uses a larger leaf and is processed in a more...
    Loosely rolled, lightly pungent.

  • organic Organic

    Heavenly Blue Peak

    An exceptional spring green, this high-mountain cultivar is harvested only for a brief period in April. Heavenly Blue Peak (Tian Mu Qing Ding) is grown in bamboo forest preserves of Tian Mu Mountains, in Zhejiang Province. Literally translated as "eye of...
    Lush & naturally sweet

  • Hojicha

    Hojicha

    Hojicha is a distinctive green tea. It is made using stems from a Sencha cultivar and then roasting them at high temperaures to create an infusion with a light-to-reddish-brown appearance and a nutty fragrance. These beautifully uniform stems are...
    Nutty fragrance, roasted & sweet
  • Jasmine Pearls - Mò Li Zhēn Zhū

    Jasmine Pearls - Mò Li Zhēn Zhū

    Jasmine Pearls is a delight to watch unfold as well as to drink. This tea is certainly one of China's finest jasmine offerings. The quality of the Pearl rests with two key attributes: a high-quality, spring pick leaf that is hand rolled then kept in cool...
    Sweet, soothing

  • organic Organic

    Jasmine Silver Tip

    The fragrances of jasmine flowers scent our organic lot of Jasmine Silver Tip. Grown in Fujian Province, Silver Tip is a Jasmine Yin Hao style green tea. Yin Hao's are higher grades of green tea, one will note an abundance of silver buds and its rich...
    Jasmine flower scented, organic green tea.

  • Little Melon Seed

    Little Melon Seed

    One of China's "Famous Teas", recognized as exceptional in quality in centuries past and widely enjoyed for its quality today. Little Melon Seed, "Lu An Guapian", is unusual for its leaf coloration as it shows deep green almost blue colors. The leaves...
    Blue-green leaves, sweet flavor.

  • organic Organic

    Matcha - Powdered Green Tea

    Our organic matcha is made from Tencha leaf, the shaded first leaves of the spring harvest. Shading produces a vibrant green hue, umami sweetness, creamy taste, and enlivening energy. The powdered tea leaves offer high levels of chlorophyll, L theanine...
    Sweet, umami

  • organic Organic

    Moroccan Mint

    Our blend of fresh, organic peppermint, made with a varietal grown in the Pacific Northwest, is blended with an organic Gunpowder green tea from Zhejiang Province, to create a cool, soothing and refreshing cup. This tea blend can be enjoyed hot and...
    Tea of daily life, refreshing
  • OKU

    OKU

    Obuyutaka (Oku) is emerald, delicately shaped, offering an unusually fragrant leaf aroma. Skillfully crafted, this small leaf cultivar offers some of the finest tasting Senchas produced in Japan.  Lot Notes. Produced in the Higashisonogi...
    Highly fragrant, assertive
  • organic Organic

    Organic Green Tea Sampler - 3 of the Finest

    China's green teas are famous for their artistically shaped leaves, rich aromas and clean fresh flavors. Each spring as the weather warms, tender, newly emerging buds and leaves produce a class known as "before the rains" teas. These varieties are much...
    Spring greens, elegant, fresh flavors.

  • SAE - Saemidori

    SAE - Saemidori

    This year's lot of Saemidori (SAE) is Ichibancha grade. Grown on a farm above Omura Bay, SAE is an early budding tea, locally known as "Clear Green". The leaves of this high-grade Sencha are a vivid green suggestive of its high amino acid content. Leaves...
    Vibrant, high umami
  • organic Organic

    Sencha

    Our Sencha is organic, the leaves are long and a rich, emerald green color flecked with shades of lighter green. Taste is slightly astringent and produces a yellow liquor. Ours is grown in Fujian Province in the Japanese style. Processing of the leaf is...

  • Snow Bud

    Snow Bud

    Grown at a high elevation, the season is short for this style of tea. Leaf is dense, deep in coloration, its flavor is subtle yet lingering. Produced inland in Fujian Province. As this tea harvest early in the season, it offers yet another taste...
    Lush, a delicate honey note.

  • organic Organic

    Snow Dragon - Xue Long

    We selected an organic Snow Dragon grown in the Simao District of Yunnan Province as it tasted so good! (We also offer this tea from the Fuding area of Fujian Province.) This lot is a fine pluck of one bud one leaf and offers the appearance of snow...
    Sweet, vegetal & clean

  • Spring Blossom

    Spring Blossom

    As the weather warms along the coast of southeastern China, some of the first teas to reach the market are a number of cultivars known as Mao Feng. These early greens come in a variety of styles – leaves light to dark green, long and short, curled...
    Vegetal, nutty flavors, hints of chestnut.

  • Spring Green

    Spring Green

    Spring Green is one of the first teas of spring to come out of the mountains. It is a Mao Feng cultivar made to a large leaf size, offering deep green colors, and a high white bud content. Lot is a taste of the early flavors of the harvest and is an...
    Buttery, sweet grassy notes

  • organic Organic

    Spring Green - Decaffeinated

    Numerous varieties of this delicious green cultivar thrive in the valleys and mountains of the southeastern provinces of China. A Mao Feng cultivar, our organic lot was organically grown in Zhejiang Province. A delicious mix of deep greens and...
    Vegetal & sweet, refreshing.