Tea Lover's Organic Ceremonial Matcha

Certified Organic Ceremonial Grade Japanese Matcha Tea (USDA/JONA). Made from hand picked, first harvest tea leaves, extremely smooth tasting, ideal for traditional style matcha and iced matcha. Traditionally Grown and Harvested. Unlike other matcha teas, Tea Lover’s Ceremonial Matcha is shade grown and hand-picked at the first flush of spring when the leaves are young and fresh, bursting with the nutrients green tea is famous for. After picking, the leaves are lightly steamed, air dried, de-stemmed and cut into smaller pieces, called 'tencha'. The tencha leaves are then aged for a few months to reduce the bitterness of any tannins. Finally, the leaves are slowly stone ground into an ultra f