A charming town located in the southernmost part of Japan's Kagoshima Prefecture, Chiran is renowned for its lush tea plantations and legacy steeped in tea production.
Here we discovered one of the best sencha we’ve ever had from a local grower running his tea company since three generations. Saemidori & Yabukita cultivars are used to produce tea that bursts with citrus notes and tastes like nothing we’ve ever had before.
But the most appealing feature of Fiddler’s Green is “Warakake”: trees are covered 15 days with rice straw (as opposed to the canvas that is used for most kabuse cha). This is a very labour intensive process, which yields most interesting results in terms of umami and flavour!
