Japanese Uji Green Tea

タイトルまたは説明

Green tea is made all over Japan. Shizuoka is famous for its tea, so is Kagoshima. After all, Shizuoka makes the most green tea in Japan (*0%), and is well known for its Sencha, it should be famous. Yame (Fukuoka) is also famous for its Gyokuro, and they managed to produce the best tasting tea in Japan in the year ***8. 

So, why should people be interested in Uji Tea? 

The taste of Green tea differs from field to field, mountain to mountain, climate to climate, and type of tea tree to tea tree. How the farmer treats his tea trees, and when he does what makes a difference in the tea too. Uji has the rolling hills, the foggy mist, the cool and damp weather, yet the hot and humid summer, the absolute ideal kind of weather and environment that tea was made for. 

And then comes the history factor. The history of Uji, is the history of Japanese Tea. Sencha was born in Uji, so was Gyokuro, and so was Matcha. For the people of Uji, tea is their pride, their livelihood, their love, and it is their life. Which is why it is almost impossible to find a tea farm that produces sub-par tea in Uji. It would simply not be permitted, and it is fact. 

Even in Japan, if you want to give somebody a gift of good tea, the only tea that is really socially acceptable as a high-class tea, is Uji tea. That is because Uji tea is what people think of, when asked what tea they see as the highest grade Japanese tea. This is not necessarily because it is the most expensive. It is because of the Uji brand, its historical reputation, and the fact that it is the hardest to obtain outside of the Kansai region unless you go to high-class specialty tea stores.

Definition

Kyoto Prefecture Chamber of Tea Industry defined Uji Tea as tealeaves produced from any of KyotoPrefecture, ShigaPrefecture, NaraPrefecture, or MiePrefecture, and processed in KyotoPrefecture.