HOT ! Ippodo Tea - Hosen Sencha (2.82oz Bag) - Medium & Balanced - For Everyday Enjoyment - Kyoto Since 1717

- Ippodo’s foremost sencha: Hosen is a sencha green tea with a classic character. The perfect balance of umami, sweetness, and pleasant astringency.
- Kyoto Since 1717 ? Ippodo Tea has been run by the same family in Kyoto for over three centuries.
- Grown, processed, blended, and packaged entirely in Japan.
- 80 gram size: around 8 standard servings of tea. Rebrew each serving up to 3 times.
- Recommendations: brew with medium-hot water, cold brew, or serve over ice.

Product description

Hosen - 80g

Sencha Recipes

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About Ippodo Tea - Kyoto since 1717

Types of Ippodo Tea

Sencha is the most classic and well-known style of Japanese green tea. Ippodo carefully blends sencha lots to produce a tea with complexity and depth while highlighting this tea’s umami, natural sweetness, and refreshing astringency. Our sencha brews a goldenrod color with a vibrant fragrance like a sunny field. Enjoy sencha in the morning or afternoon; with a meal or cookie at teatime. Ippodo sencha are blended in-house at the Ippodo headquarters in the heart of Kyoto.

Hosen is Ippodo’s foremost sencha, and it has a classic taste. A bestseller in Japan for decades.

Character: Rich umami, sweetness, crisp astringency, and a brilliant fragrance, all balanced in harmonious proportion.

Bring out sencha’s balanced taste with medium-hot water. After the first brew, rebrew the tea leaves for a total of three brews.

Slowly draw out sencha’s deep, rich sweetness by brewing with ice water.

Sip in a small glass like fine sake.

Quickly make iced tea by pouring strongly brewed sencha over a pitcher of ice.

Fragrant, cool, and refreshing.

Located in the heart of Kyoto, Ippodo Tea Co. has provided the highest quality Japanese green tea for over three centuries.

More than just a retailer, we are a multi-faceted tea company that carefully selects, blends, and crafts its tea. Our tasting team, led by our president, monitors the consistency of all of our blends.

Teas from Ippodo Tea are of the finest class, cultivated in the mountains of Kyoto and the surrounding area. This region is renowned for producing the highest grade of green tea in Japan, thanks largely to its mild misty climate, mineral-rich soil, and near-perfect balance of sunshine and rainfall.

Matcha is a green tea that is made by grinding shade-cultivated tea leaves into a fine powder. Characterized by a rich aroma, mellow umami, and a vivid green color, this tea is a favorite in Japan and around the world.

Gyokuro is a green tea that has an abundance of hearty-sweet umami flavor. With a dew-like aroma, less astringency, and a thick character, this tea is one for slowly sipping and savoring.

Sencha brews a harmonious balance of umami, sweetness, bitterness, and astringency, with a bright fragrance like a sunny field. Enjoy sencha in the morning or afternoon, at mealtime or teatime. This classic green tea fits any occasion.

Bancha teas are light-bodied, fragrant, and refreshing, with a variety of different aromas to choose from. Teas from this category are a good choice for something to drink throughout the day, every day.