Tamaryokucha
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| Type: | Green tea |
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| Other names: | 玉 緑茶 , ぐ り 茶 |
| Origin: | Japan |
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| Brief description: | mild, grassy |
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| Temperature: | 80 ° C |
| Time: | 1 min. |
Tamaryokucha ( Japanese 玉 緑茶 , Tama [= precious stone], ryoku [= green] and cha [= tea]) is a green tea from Japan . Also known under the name Guricha ( ぐ り 茶 , Guri [= curly, crinkled]), its leaves are more like a Chinese green tea than the stretched leaves of a Japanese green tea. Tamaryokucha has a Japanese profile thanks to its intense, grassy taste, reminiscent of berries and almonds. Thanks to the low tannin and bitter substances , this tea is good for beginners, but is also popular with connoisseurs. The Tamaryokucha is not rolled into a needle-shaped shape like the Sencha , but the tea leaves are left in their original, comma-shaped form.
Cultivation
High quality Tamaryokucha is grown on the southernmost island of Japan, in Kyūshū . The Ureshino region in particular has successful tea plantations. It is a small annual production, which makes the tea a specialty. Tamaryokucha is also grown today in Saga , Nagasaki and Kumamoto prefectures .
preparation
As usual with green tea, the tea is infused with hot water at around 80 ° C and left to steep for one minute. The tea leaves allow several infusions.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 玉 緑茶 . In: 大 辞 林 第三版 at kotobank.jp. Retrieved January 21, 2015 (Japanese).
- ↑ Peter Rohrsen: The tea: cultivation, varieties, history . CH Beck, 2013, ISBN 3-406-65418-5 , pp. 50 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Tamaryokucha. Retrieved January 21, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Tamaryokucha producing regions. Retrieved January 21, 2015 .
- ^ Anne Dufour, Carole Garnier: Le grand livre du régime Okinawa: Les secrets pour vivre mieux et plus longtemps . Leduc.S, 2013, ISBN 978-2-84899-587-8 , pp. 137 (French, limited preview in Google Book search).