Where it comes from
Kanoya lies at the southern tip of Kagoshima, on the Ōsumi peninsula: tea fields on volcanic-ash soil, between the sea and the mountains, under a mild climate year-round. In 2024, Kagoshima became Japan’s leading tea-growing region, ahead of Shizuoka.
This tea comes from a family farm that has grown it for three generations, and we work with them directly.
It arrives in France loose, weighed and packed by hand, in small runs, so that a pouch leaves soon after it is filled. Matcha does not forgive delay: its colour and scent fade on contact with air and light, far faster than leaf tea's.
