"Do You Sell Organic Green Tea?"
In order for a tea to legally carry the organic green tea label, much extra labor and expense must go into growing it in certain ways that meet government standards. Truly organic green tea must be certified by the proper government authorities. Because of that, if you compare a standard green tea against an organic green tea of the same price, the non-organic product will usually taste better and be of a higher quality. In other words, you will have to pay a lot more for an organic green tea, taste wise, that is the same quality level as a non-organic green tea.
If it's organic you insist on, be sure to be careful as there are companies suggesting that their teas are organic when they have not actually been certified as such.
Since we personally visit the farms and factories where our green tea is produced and are highly confident that our green teas are produced in a safe manner regardless of whether they are classified as organic or not, our policy at O-Cha.com is to carry the highest quality, best tasting green teas first, and only then consider whether they are organic or not. While we do carry high quality organic green tea and organic matcha, our selection here is somewhat limited as most of the organics we have tried (outside of what we currently carry) have not up to the level, taste wise, of non-organic green tea. We won't sell it if it doesn't taste great, organic or not.
