Dry leaf of Kabusecha
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Mie

Kii Peninsula, Japan

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Kabusecha

Sweet and savoury, between sencha and gyokuro.

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About Mie: shade, flush, where, aroma
Shade
Covered for 2 to 25 days before picking 1
Flush
Almost always first flush 1
Where
Mainly Mie and Fukuoka prefectures 2
Aroma
The "covered aroma", ooika 1

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, "Kabusecha". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabusecha
  2. Wikipedia, "Tea in Japan". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_in_Japan