About this tea
Chamusume means tea girl, the name once given to the young women who picked the harvest. It suits this tea: it does the everyday work of the range without any fuss.
It’s a blended gyokuro, put together at Sakamotoen from the farm’s own shaded leaf. Blending is how the farm keeps the character consistent from year to year, and it makes Chamusume the most forgiving tea we sell. Brew it a little hot or a little long and it stays smooth, with the gentle sweetness that shading gives the leaf.
If you’ve never had gyokuro, start here. If you drink it every morning, this is the one that won’t hurt to go through a pack of. Each 50g pack brews 25 to 37 cups, since the same leaves steep two or three times over.
