(Sold Out for 2020)

Winner - 1st Prize Gyokuro @ 2016 Uji Green Tea Festival!

The highest grade of gyokuro we sell and supplied to us exclusively from Japan's oldest continuously operating tea shop, Tsuen in Uji near Kyoto. Yes, its expensive, there is simply no getting around that when dealing with an item of this limited high quality. Hand-picked, the actual grower is famous in Uji for his gyokuro producing skills. Note that Uji Gyokuro Gyokusui is a very limited edition item.  We are supplying it because the opportunity to offer it presented itself to us and we strive to supply the best of the best. We also do not recommend that you purchase this rare item unless you have previously practiced brewing gyokuro. O-Cha.com is honored to offer this superb green tea supplied to us from the Tsuen family who have operated their teashop from same location on the banks of the Uji river since 1160.

Grown in Ogura town in Uji City near Kyoto, this is an extremely high quality gyokuro. Gyokuro is shade grown before harvesting, giving it a greener color and sweeter taste. Less that 0.5 % of all green tea harvested in Japan ends up as gyokuro, and among those, this gem is at the top.  Another unique aspect is that unlike the majority of gyokuro grown today, the shading is not done with modern shade cloth but instead using traditional straw and reed screening. The combination of hand-picking and traditional shading methods make this a very "old school" gyokuro.

Once you learn to make it properly, you wil be hooked for life! Since this is a connoisseur grade of gyokuro and is not considered a beginner's green tea, make sure to read our how to brew gyokuro page as it is brewed differently than sencha.

Because this is a rather rare and expensive, we are offering it at this time in 30 gram packaging