Matcha IMPERIAL "Minamoto" Vintage
Matcha IMPERIAL "Minamoto" Vintage
PRE-ORDER
Our workshop is closed for the summer holidays. Get 15% off your pre-order using code: VACAYMATCHA (until August 5)
Your order will be shipped no later than: 12/08/2024
- Pure umami and complex notes
- Freshly ground every 2 weeks
- 40g instead of the usual 30g (+25% more)
100% matcha green tea powder JAS AAA - Origin Japan
Handcrafted only
- Traditional Matcha tea (with water)
- Matcha Latte Tea
A blend of Tsuyuhikari and Saemidori
DETAILS OF MANUFACTURE AND CULTIVATION
PLACE OF CULTIVATION // Yame
PLACE OF MANUFACTURE // At our workshop in Uji
(Kyoto prefecture)
TASTING NOTES // Warm rice, hazelnut
GRADE / QUALITY // Super Fine Ceremonial Grade
CULTIVARS // Tsuyuhikari, Saemidori
LAND & SOIL // Black Crystalline Schist Soil, Acidic.
HARVEST PERIOD // 1st Harvest (May)
DURATION OF SHADING // 28 days (shelf)
MILLING SPEED // 23 grams/hour
INGREDIENTS // 100% Green tea
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Product History and Expertise
Designed to be enjoyed by the Japanese aristocracy, it is produced on small, exceptional plots. Its slow production methods allow only a very limited output: the harvested leaves are sorted by hand a second time after harvesting, to keep only the perfect leaves that have no defects. This is a painstaking and time-consuming process that is only found in Matchas for national competitions.
It ranks among the greatest Japanese Matcha.
Delivery
Switzerland
Postpac (Tracked delivery 1 to 2 days) - Collections take place on Mondays and Thursdays.
€0.00-€48.99 | €9.00 CHF
€0.00-€49.00 | FREE OF CHARGE
DHL Express delivery available from €14.00 CHF. (Tracked delivery 1 to 2 days).
France
Colissimo (Tracked delivery 2 to 3 days)
€0.00-€38.99 | €9.00 EUR
€39.00-€68.99 | €4.00 EUR
€69.00+ | FREE OF CHARGE
DHL Express delivery available from €20.00 EUR. (Tracked delivery 1 to 2 days). Collection options available.
Belgium
Colissimo (Tracked delivery 2 to 5 days)
€0.00-€68.99 | €5.00 EUR
€69.00+ | FREE OF CHARGE
DHL Express delivery available from €4.99 EUR (Tracked delivery 2 to 3 days). Collection options available.
EU Zone 1
Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany
Colissimo (Tracked delivery 2 to 5 days)
€0.00-€38.99 | €9.00 EUR
€39.00-€48.99 | €4.00 EUR
49.00 + EUR | FREE
DHL Express delivery available from €15.00 EUR (Tracked delivery 2 to 3 days)
EU Zone 2
Austria, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom.
Colissimo (Tracked delivery 2 to 5 days)
€0.00-€39.99 | €10.00 EUR
€40.00-€68.99 | €7.00 EUR
€69.00-€88.99 | €3.00 EUR
€89.00+ | FREE OF CHARGE
DHL Express delivery available from €15.00 EUR (Tracked delivery 2 to 3 days)
Rest of the world, including USA and Canada
DHL Express (Tracked delivery 5 to 7 days)
€0.00-€69.99 | €29.00 EUR
€70.00-€228.99 | €14.00 EUR
€229.00 | FREE OF CHARGE
Please note that these are estimated times and may occasionally vary due to unforeseen factors.
Guarantee and BIO
Our tea is 100% guaranteed, we have absolute confidence in the quality of the products we offer you. Matcha Botanicals is a team of passionate people who have nothing in mind to sell products that we are proud of. These are varieties carefully selected, developed and studied by our producers and with our tea master. The cultivation and manufacturing process is the subject of our full attention, because we are the first consumers of our products, and constantly in search of the best. 💯
As specialists in traditional Japanese Matcha, we exclusively distribute Matcha from equally passionate family farms, all members of the Japan Tea Association, and all producing traditional Japanese Matcha since the 18th century.
Their production methods are on quality standards much higher than that of the "BIO" standards, a simple comparison with a single cup between a "BIO" commercial matcha and those from the plantations that we offer is eloquent!
For our producers, it does not make sense to pay dearly for an ORGANIC label which would guarantee a lower quality than the real quality of their products, while increasing their costs. The production is analyzed regularly to guarantee its quality as strictly as a traditional Organic Matcha. 🌳
Once harvested, the leaves are washed and steamed to freeze their aromas. The steam forms a protective film around the leaf, which allows it to retain its properties. They are then dried in hot air in large nets, and stored.
Less than 30 days before landing in your cup, the leaves are ground, then shipped by boat and train 🚞 to Europe, guaranteeing unparalleled freshness and an exemplary carbon footprint 🌈.
By the way, cultivating a tea plant is like planting a young tree every 5 years.
3 signs to identify a high quality Matcha
How to choose your matcha?
There are 3 clues by which you can easily determine the quality of a matcha:
• The colour : must be bright and lively. If the matcha has an emerald green color it means that it has been stored and transported with care, without contact with oxygen and daylight, so the tea has retained all of its properties. If the matcha has a dark or dirty yellow color it means that it is simply not pure matcha or that it has lost its properties due to interaction with oxygen or sunlight. For this reason, after purchase never pour matcha into a transparent jar and store it in a dry and dark place.
• The smell: it must be pleasant, soft and at the same time saturated. If matcha smells like dry hay with hints of bitterness / seaweed (fish) or jasmine (like Chinese green and white teas), then this variety has nothing to do with real matcha or it has lost its properties during processing or storage.
• Taste : The taste of a good matcha is sweet, light. It certainly shouldn't taste like fish or seaweed! The taste of matcha depends greatly on the variety and the season when it is harvested. The May harvest has a deeper, rich taste and sweet aroma, and respectively, contains the highest amount of antioxidants and chlorophyll. Harvested later than July, matcha may have bitterness and it contains fewer vitamins and minerals than in the early varieties.
Preservation
Our Matcha is guaranteed to be freshly ground, and this is extremely important!
This involves complex logistics and many precautions with the sole purpose of bringing you an outstanding quality: a developed aromatic spectrum, a great sweetness, and the restitution of all beneficial nutritional properties.
Our Matcha is supplied in containers that are airtight and protected from light rays that could damage it, and made of special black glass, an inert material that does not react with the Matcha.
In order to consume your Matcha at the highest level of quality, we recommend that you consume it within 3 months by keeping it cool at +5C in our original container.
Your Matcha can however remain out of the fridge permanently and be consumed perfectly safely, however it will lose the exceptional qualities we have worked hard to give it.
Recycling
Glass is one of the most recyclable materials available, and the special black glass we use for our containers is no exception.
These containers are so good though that we would recommend you keep them and use them to store your quality spices, cooking mixes, powders, chocolates and any food that may spoil.
Prepare Matcha
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One
Add a chashaku spoon full of matcha (2-5g) and a little cold water.
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Two
Use a bamboo whisk to mix the matcha and water until you have a paste.
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Three
Now add some more water to the mixture. Whisk it until frothy.
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Four
Add milk for a matcha latte or more water. Hot or iced, it will be delicious either way.
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