Koma-mukashi Special New Year's Matcha 20g Box

About our Special New Year's Matcha

This is a specially blended matcha only sold towards the end of the year and early in the new year. The name, Komamukashi, and package design of this year’s Special New Year's Matcha are inspired by the Year of the Horse.

This matcha has a magnificent flavour that is just right for the New Year holiday season, and tastes superb prepared either as koicha or usucha. The Komamukashi package features a white horse with gentle eyes as a motif, expressing Ippodo’s wish that you have a wonderful year in 2026.

How does it taste?

This splendid matcha is perfect for celebrating the New Year. Its rich fragrance, full umami, and refined sharpness bathe the palate.

It is smooth and refined, leaving behind lingering tones that are refreshing. Its vivid green colour brings to mind tea fields in spring awash in sunlight. This is a matcha that brightens you up through all your senses, with a sweet fragrance filling the air the moment you begin whisking it.

How/when to enjoy it?

You can change the way you prepare it throughout the day, for example, keeping the matcha light mid-morning, but preparing it stronger in the early afternoon, or preparing it so that it has a rich fragrance when enjoying it with family or friends.

Adjust the amount of matcha powder you use to suit how you feel or to suit the sweets you are having. The taste changes significantly when you vary the amount of matcha. Komamukashi is also a wonderful matcha to serve guests or give as a gift during the year-end and New Year holiday season.

What to enjoy it with?

First, savour it all by itself, appreciating the complex balance achieved between rich umami flavour and just the right amount of sharpness when prepared as usucha. See for yourself how wonderful this matcha is, with its delicious taste, and light aftertaste. We think you will find that it also goes wonderfully with your favourite New Year’s confections.