Mild umami flavour and pleasant taste.

Kakurei 180g Can w/box

¥5,000

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# Available year round # Balanced # Cans # Gyokuro # Loose leaf # Standard preparation # With meals

How does it taste?

A taste and fragrance that bring back memories of the beach, with the sound of distant, crashing waves.

How/when to enjoy it?

As an appetizer before a delicious dish, or together with a meal.

What to enjoy it with?

Oysters, or shellfish with the wonderful smell of the sea.

How do Ippodo staff enjoy it?

Prepare the first and second pots using the same tea leaves with water at about 60°C, and savour it slowly. Use water at about 80°C for the third and subsequent pots. When you’re done enjoying the tea served hot, pour boiling water on the tea leaves, and then pour the tea over ice to cool it down quickly.

Strength

Light/easy to drink Rich/satisfying
Taste

Bitter/sharp Sweet/umami
Fragrance

Mild Fragrant/aromatic

How to Prepare

10g
80ml
60℃
90 sec.

The concentrated umami can feel as though it had been squeezed out of freshly-picked tea leaves. To get all the umami, make sure to cool the water sufficiently after boiling.