Yellow Tea

Yellow Kukicha Tasting notes: Sunflower seeds, pine nuts, toasted sesame sweetness. This is, without exaggeration, the best thing to ever happen to stem tea. Processed as green tea, stems can sometimes give off rough astringency; as a red tea, they can come out weak, albeit sweet.  Yet, as a yellow tea, stems offer up a uniquely rich, nutty, sweet, and roasty taste. The closest analogue in the tea world is Japan’s Hoji-kukicha, but the balance between sweetness and roastiness is unrivalled. There are no sour or sharp notes lurking below the surface. Being a stem tea, it is naturally lower in caffeine though it still contains some.