TEA FLOWER | tisane Format:SAMPLE + 25-30 seconds each additional

+ 25-30 seconds each additional steep

warming finish that lingers pleasantly

and absolutely Chinese

The tea is lastly dried in a dedicated smoking room (qing lou—"green house") using tongmu wood burned under the floor

Tamaryokucha—or tama

TEA FLOWER | tisane Format:SAMPLE + 25-30 seconds each additionalTEA FLOWER is a dried Japanese chabana ("tea flower") from Wazuka, Kyoto prefecture, Japan. Ui, our Uji matcha producer, plucks these blooms by hand in late summer and early autumn, to prevent the tea trees from diverting energy resources to flowering. This pruning is a very typical part of garden maintenance, and always occurs to some extent before the tea plants enter winter dormancy. Some flowers are strategically left to encourage pollinator