Suizawa Matcha

Mie

Mie Prefecture, home to Ise tea, has cultivated tea for more than a thousand years. At the foot of the Suzuka Mountains, cool inland air, mist, and marked seasons help slow leaf growth and shape teas with clarity and balance. Mie is especially known for kabusecha and tencha, but the region also produces sencha, hojicha, and genmaicha.

Our Mie offerings show how one place can express itself across styles. Shade-grown tencha becomes matcha or, when its stems are roasted, a light and aromatic hojicha. Sencha blended with roasted rice becomes genmaicha, bringing together fresh green character and warm toasted grain. Each style keeps a clear sense of the leaf beneath the process.