Shincha (新茶), literally "new tea", represents the first month's harvest of Sencha, a Japanese green tea. Over three quarters of all tea produced in Japanese tea gardens is Sencha, a tea selected for its pleasant sharpness and fresh qualities complementing a leaf of high uniformity and rich emerald colour. Today Sencha is steam treated before further processing with hot-air drying.
Regions: Most regions make a number of kinds of Sencha, which are ...
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