Everything You Need to Know About Sencha - How Sencha is Made and How to Prepare Sencha

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Sencha is the most popular green tea in Japan, and it's also one of the most diverse categories. In this video, we are going to discuss the different types of sencha, the history of sencha and how to prepare sencha. Whether you are new to sencha, or you have been drinking it for a long time, I’d love to invite you on a journey to explore this wonderful and flavorful Japanese green tea!
First, let’s start out by talking about what sencha is. Sencha is a type of Japanese green tea that is made from tea leaves that are steamed, rolled and dried. The dried leaves are then infused into warm water to create sencha tea. This makes sencha different from matcha, which is tea powder that is mixed directly into water.
Matcha was the most common way to consume tea in Japan prior to the invention of sencha. Leaves were ground into a powder and mixed into water with the bamboo tea whisk or chasen. This powdered tea was and still is used today in the Japanese tea ceremony, where tea is prepared according to a strict set of rules and principles. With all these rules and equipment involved in tea preparation, there were many who advocated for a simpler ritual of tea preparation.
A tea farmer named Nagatani Soen developed a tea that could be prepared in a simpler way. He found that by steaming the leaves and rolling them into these tight needle shapes, you could lock in the flavor until the tea was ready to be prepared. It was then a simple matter of infusing the leaves into hot water and then filtering them out with the clay teapot. It was here that sencha was born.
The invention of Nagatani Soen in 1738 earned him a shrine in ujitawara nearby the family home where he grew up. The upkeep of this shrine is funded by larger Japanese tea companies, in order to pay their respect to the father of modern Japanese tea. Sencha soon became popular all around Japan because of it’s flavor and its convenience. All it required was a teapot and some hot water to prepare. Farmers later experimented with different types of production methods to create the vast array of sencha we see today.
In the north, we work with farmers like Mr. Masuda and the family of Sato who produce mostly Yabukita sencha tea. This tea plant variety holds up better to the colder winters of Shizuoka, as the leaves are thicker and more resistant to frost. While Shizuoka is Japan’s largest tea growing region, it is the least diverse in terms of tea cultivars, with 93% of the tea produced there coming from the Yabukita cultivar.
In the south of Japan, we see a much more diverse array of sencha green tea being grown. Mr. Henta in Kirishima for example produces 8 different types of tea plant varieties on a relatively small tea field. All of these tea plants produce slightly different tasting green teas and they can be either blended together to form the Henta Sencha, which combines the best aspects of all or they can be broken up into single cultivar sencha teas. These single cultivar teas like the Henta Saemidori sencha, the okumidori sencha and the asanoka sencha, celebrate the individuality and variety of tea cultivars. The saemidori sencha tea is syrupy and sweet with a strong green color.
Shading is perhaps the biggest factor in determining the taste of a sencha green tea. When it comes to the taste profile of a Japanese green tea, there is a battle between the sweet and savory theanine and the slightly bitter or citrusy catechins. When the tea leaf is exposed to sunlight, it begins to convert theanine into catechins to protect itself from the UV light. If a farmer wants to create a sweeter tea, he will attempt to block the sunlight from hitting the leaf and this is done through the use of kabuse

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