In my previous post I presented Ureshino 嬉 野, a tea-producing region located on the island of Kyushu in the department of Saga. In reality, Ureshino means tea produced in Saga, but also in the neighboring department of Nagasaki in Higashi Sonogi 东 彼 杵 in particular.
The evocation of "tea Ureshino" often called the image of -iri kama cha ( kama-iri sei tamaryoku -cha, or kama-guri ), green tea product according to the Chinese method of direct heating. In reality, it produces almost Saga, departments Miyazaki and Kumamoto are the largest producers of -iri kama cha (even if this production is minimal). A Saga, Nagasaki as the bulk of production is the mushi-sei-cha tamaryoku ( mushi-guri ) produced by steaming the leaves, like a sencha finally.
Here are two:
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The left is a product with the story interesting. Francine Teapot Mobile allow me to plagiarize it, saying that this tea, cha tamaryoku is (almost) a "Friendship Tea"? One morning I arrived at the shop . And now the day before, a employee of another store-Maruyama has come to drop me a tea bag Ureshino. This he was told by a woman from Saga, passing through Tokyo, would love to meet me, but erred shop (!!). Neither one nor two I open the bag to enjoy a delicious tea. Thank you. He will take several days to get the lady on the phone. Calls to the store from which the tea makes me all fall on one employee who knows nothing of the affair, which, with its strong emphasis Kyushu absolutely does not show cooperative (at the edge of rudeness ), my calls disturbed, and anyway I hardly understand what she said (although it does not say much). After some days I falls on the last boss, who explains that it was his wife who came to "see me" and working in their second shop, not far across the "border" in the department of Nagasaki . I get the phone number, and at the same time the opportunity, finally, thank oral carrier for an excellent tea! Having heard of me on TV I think she wanted to meet me, try it with the same degree of instructor, but failed.
That's the story.
Tea is the right tamaryoku-cha in Maruyama-in. This year a 50/50 blend of a Ureshino Saga and a "Ureshino" Nagasaki (for lack of quantity this year, at the wrong time), for better results!
Both are lovely, leaves finely twisted, brilliant, beautiful color. The right one is thinner, with a lighter color, both of which show a longer steaming. The left would have been better sorted, some large pieces of leaves disturbing the charming spectacle offered by the beautiful emerald leaves finely rolled.
The difference is felt when the infusion. The right one gives a much darker liquor, confirming the idea of a bake longer. The left one is more fragrant. A short annealing produces a more fragrant tea, but less strong flavor.
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Tasting presents us with two teas which remains very close, with a fragrance that point rather than some futsu-mushi sencha mountain perfume large flowers.
The flavor is strong, sweetish, lightly peated, the right, of course, is steamed longer even stronger, more mineral, more complex too, with more depth, while the left one has a more raw, but cooler, a bit greener. In short, the same two types of teas, from the same region, very close throughout, but each with its own personality as you look at the details, as we learn to know them, like twins in a way. Unlike steaming is undoubtedly crucial.
Overall Ureshino gives birth to many excellent teas, very soft, with lots of flavor. It is a peculiarity of tamaryoku steamed cha ( mushi-guri ) that have both a power flavor (like many sencha plains, usually somewhat fragrant) and a pronounced aroma as sencha mountain, the flavor more subtle. The mushi-sei-cha tamaryoku are pretty much manufactured as sencha, except that phase mixing is zappée. Thus, the leaves are not needle-shape characteristic of sencha, but at the end of this phase mixing shortened, they are also less dry. So to counter this problem, comes into play for tamaryoku cha a kind of pre-drying process, which probably plays on the scent.
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