crisp – fresh greens – focus

Grown in a restored tea garden, this sencha embodies the classic Goka character: clean and with a satisfying astringency perfect to enjoy while working or studying.

This Sencha is reviving the taste of Gokacha. Once loved by many, today most tea producers have stoped making tea in this part of Japan. This tea has a brisk and refreshing taste with woody notes, later brews reveal subtle white flower, citrus and fresh apple aromas.

We feel very honoured to be able to offer this tea to you, produced by Czech/Japanese couple Ale and Sachi Gallas. The pair grow and process tea at their tea garden, ‘Nengangcha’, in Gifu Prefecture at an altitude of 450-500 metres in a village which has been producing tea for over 400 years.

Nengancha translates to dreamed-of, desired or wished-for tea, fitting to the reinvigorating work Ale and Sachi are doing in this area where tea production has tended to close down, not open like in this case, in recent times.

The symbol of the garden is the Japanese giant salamander, one of the largest amphibians in the world, which can be seen in the river that flows through the village and gives it it’s name –Higashishirakaw or Eastern White River.

Ale and Sachi do not use any chemicals in the production of their tea, which relies solely on the area’s favourable tea growing conditions for its excellent qualities: heavy mists, high rainfall and large temperature differences between day and night. Their plantation is surrounded by forest on all sides, and faces almost exactly to the south.

“I hope that our tea will appeal to you and will transport you for a while to the land of deep mountains and green forests, to the Eastern White River…” – Ale Gallas, Nengancha

originGifu, Japan
producer Nengancha
harvest & processing spring, asamushi
cultivaryabukita