{"product_id":"camellia-first-flush-green-tea","title":"First-Flush Green Tea","description":"\u003cp\u003eA first-flush sencha from Kagoshima, harvested in April. Steep it at 70°C — boiling water turns it bitter, and that is the most common way people ruin it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst flush is the season's first picking, when the leaf has spent the winter building up amino acids, and that is where the sweetness and the savoury note come from. Later harvests cost less and taste like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeventy degrees for sixty seconds is not fussiness. Boiling water pulls the tannins out too fast and makes a bitter cup from good leaf, which is the usual way this tea gets ruined. Green tea also fades, so buy it to drink rather than to keep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne hundred grams is roughly twenty pots at 5g each, which is a season's drinking for one person. Green tea is one of the few things where buying more is worse value, because it fades faster than you can drink it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKagoshima sits at the southern end of Japan, so its first flush arrives earlier than Uji's and the leaf grows in more sun, which is why this is a fuller sencha rather than a delicate one. The pouch reseals because oxygen is what dulls it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BuyScout","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48079021179043,"sku":"CAMELLIAFIR-01","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/8440\/9507\/files\/camellia-first-flush-green-tea-primary.webp?v=1788396391","url":"https:\/\/demo.buyscout.ai\/products\/camellia-first-flush-green-tea","provider":"BuyScout","version":"1.0","type":"link"}