Wazuka Sencha Asanoka

Asanoka is a tea cultivar created in 1953 by crossing Yabukita and a Chinese tea cultivar. It was only registered in 1996, so it is relatively new, and also very rare.

Asanoka is endearingly sweet, with a hint of mild, refreshing astringency spicing up this sweetness at the end. It is rich in umami and has mellow, toasty oatmeal side notes.

Origin: Ishidera, Wazuka-cho, Kyoto pref.
Altitude: 120 m
Picking: 2023/4/27
Shading: Unshaded
Roasting temp.: 73℃


As the legend goes, the history of the cultivation of tea in this area dates back to the period of the Northern and Southern Courts (1356), when a Zen monk, Donoh of Minami Tsuchiyama Johmyo-Ji Temple brought some tea seeds from Daitoku-Ji Temple in Kyoto to his temple and began to grow tea plants. It was in the Edo period that the production and sales of tea started on a full scale. An advanced tea-producing technology was adopted at an early stage and tea produce was sold as one of the local products along the main roads. Since the local climate and soil were fit for the production of tea, it became an export product in the Meiji period and its production volumes increased substantially.

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