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Over a decade ago three former school friends decided to start a small natural tea farm on the island they grew up on. They all wanted to maintain their connection with the island they had grown up on but often left to find work. They also wanted to protect the environment so they safeguarded the existing forest on the land and chose to farm tea without pesticides or artificial fertilizers. Today one of the three, Mr Watanabe, runs the farm and its small store which serves great green tea ice cream .<\/p>\n

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A black tea from Yakushima, an island off the south coast of Kagoshima whose outstanding natural beauty is protected as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Mr Watanabe and two other friends started the tea estate over 15 years ago to make the most of Yakushima’s unusual location and pristine environment – free from mass farming and pesticide use – and have been farming ecologically on their small farm ever since.<\/p>\n

Although Watanabe-san mainly produces sencha and other forms of green tea, he does make a small amount of this brisk, gently sweet black tea. Sharing similarities with some high-end darjeelings, it has a slightly heady floral note chasing a smooth honey aroma, along with a soya bean note that we sometimes find in Japanese blacks.\u00a0 This year’s black tea is slightly malty and goes very well with milk when pushed a bit stronger.<\/p>\n

ORIGIN
\n<\/strong>Mr Watanabe’s Tea Farm, Yakushima Island, Kagoshima, Japan<\/em><\/p>\n

SIZE OF FARM
\n<\/strong>12 acres<\/p>\n

PLANTS AND PROCESSING
\n<\/strong>Camellia Sinensis Sinensis. Kanaya Midori cultivar. 2025 Harvest<\/p>\n

BREWING
\n<\/strong>90\u00b0C, 4g per cup. 2 infusions. Can take milk<\/p>\n

PLEASE NOTE
\n<\/b>250g Refill option is only available online or via \u2018Collect from Postcard Teas\u2019 for shop collection, two working days after purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32289,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[240,34,14],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18492","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-black-teas","7":"product_cat-japan-black-teas","8":"product_cat-teas","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-variable"},"booking_location":null,"booking_location_type":null,"booking_duration":null,"booking_duration_unit":null,"booking_buffer":null,"booking_cost":null,"booking_resources":null,"exclude_global_add_ons":[],"addons":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postcardteas.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/18492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postcardteas.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postcardteas.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postcardteas.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postcardteas.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postcardteas.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=18492"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postcardteas.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=18492"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postcardteas.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=18492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}