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Japanese Toasted Matcha Loose Green Tea

Japanese Toasted Matcha

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52p per cup

Style

Rich, malty, and chocolatey, this toasted green tea makes a fantastic tea latte.

It is crafted from finely ground green tea - like a normal matcha - but what makes this powdered green tea so special is that the leaf and stem has first been toasted to become a hojicha. You could also call this tea ground hojicha or hojicha powder.

The colour is nutty brown rather than green - and the resulting tea is much lower in caffeine.

Tasting Notes

Best enjoyed with hot or cold milk - this green tea is particularly lovely with oat milk. It creates a wonderfully creamy and comforting tea - like nutty chocolate brownies with cream.

Cost Per Cup

52p per cup based on 2g of tea per 125ml of milk and 1 infusion.

Origin

Wakohen tea garden, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

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  • Quantity

    Use 2g (2 scoops with a traditional bamboo Chashaku spoon) of matcha per 125ml of hot milk.

  • Temperature

    For the optimum infusion use milk below 83°C. Using milk above the scalding point will affect the "foaminess" of the product.

  • Time

    Make a fine paste with 10ml of milk. Add the remaining milk and whisk vigorously in a M or W shape until a fine foam is created.

  • Infusions

More infusion tips

How to infuse your tea is very personal, and these are just our recommendations based on experience. Please experiment with these variables to your heart's delight. These are our recommendations, not hard and fast rules. The most delicious tea is the one you love.

Our guide uses a standard tea cup size (150ml/5.5 oz) as a measure, please adjust the quantity of leaf accordingly for less or more water. Our whole loose leaves are of such a high quality that you can infuse our teas at least twice, and the second infusion is often better than the first, with different flavours revealed as the leaf softens. If you prefer your tea stronger, add more leaf, don’t leave it for longer (this will just make it bitter).

This can also be enjoyed as an iced tea, using either milk or water.

We recommend whisking to a smooth paste with a little bit of your liquid first, and then topping up with the rest. Full extraction takes about 1 hour, use 3g per litre of liquid.

Wakohen tea garden covers around 100 hectares in the Southerly tip of Kyushu island off the south-west coast of mainland Japan. It’s run by Yasuhisa Horiguchi and his family - a great innovator and lover of the soil.

The Horiguchi family do not use chemical pesticides and herbicides on their farm - a rare approach in Japan. They believe that the best soil produces the best tea, and it is best for us.

When it comes to powdered tea, the history goes back to China - where it is now largely forgotten - but still venerated as matcha in Japan.

Matcha in Japan, is being increasingly drunk as a latte. Not, we may add, with additives and flavourings. No pumpkin spice or tapioca pearls, just a lovely pure cup of Japanese tea with frothy milk.

Hojicha is ground into a fine powder that can then be whisked into a toasty matcha latte. It is also delicious as a baking ingredient in cakes and pastries.

Here's a short film we’ve made to show you how to make Matcha:

  • Chashaku Matcha Scoop

    Add a little ceremony to your matcha by using a genuine Japanese matcha scoop to measure your matcha into the bowl.

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  • Rosemary Wilkinson White Matcha Bowl

    Stoneware and white glaze matcha bowl, with a painted indent, handmade in London, UK.
    Each bowl has been designed and handmade so you can whisk your lovely, frothy matcha and drink straight from the bowl.

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  • Chasen Matcha Whisk

    Made out of a single piece of bamboo, this traditional Japanese whisk will allow you to effectively whisk matcha into to the perfect consistency.

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Rare Tea Company uses IOSS (Import One Stop Shop) for EU orders placed on the website.  We have enabled it for all EU orders from 15th February 2023.

How IOSS works and how it is applied on the website.

The IOSS scheme allows us to collect VAT during checkout on your behalf, meaning that no VAT is due when your order is assessed by your local authority.

  • If the combined value of the products in your cart are equal to or below €150 (excluding tax), VAT will be included at the point of sale and you should not be charged any fees when your order arrives.*
  • Once the €150 threshold is exceeded VAT will be removed from the items in your cart and from this point onwards when your order ships you will be liable for local VAT, duties and import fees.**

To avoid unnecessary import charges, keep your orders under €150 (excluding tax and shipping). Tax is included on all applicable products at Rare Tea - if your order is applicable for IOSS tax will be shown at the checkout.

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As with all complex shipping methods, the IOSS system isn't foolproof, and orders that are valid for IOSS are occasionally incorrectly charged VAT by customs.

If an order shipped via IOSS and that you have paid VAT on does get incorrectly assessed by customs, please don't worry. It's usually just a mistake that can be fixed by contacting customs and explaining that the order shipped via IOSS with VAT already paid.

If this does happen to you then we suggest the following:

  1. Please contact us before speaking to customs.
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  5. If all else fails we will attempt to get our shipping provider to investigate, but this process can take a while.

*Please note - this does not include any applicable duty charged when the item is cleared. Within the EU tea is free from duty, but your region might have a different rules for non-tea items such as tins and teaware. Any duty charged is payable by you, the customer before delivery via your local customs authority.
**In special cases where custom fees have been unexpected we have retroactively refunded these in select cases. As of the 15th February 2023 (the start of IOSS) we have discontinued this process.

What is IOSS?

The Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS) is the electronic portal businesses can use since 1 July 2021 to comply with their VAT e-commerce obligations on distance sales of imported goods.

Up until the 1st July 2021, no import VAT has to be paid for commercial goods of a value up to EUR 22. New VAT eCommerce rules abolished this provision as of 1st July 2021. Thus, from 1 July 2021, all commercial goods imported into the EU from a third country or third territory is subject to VAT irrespective of their value.

What is IOSS for?

IOSS allows suppliers and electronic interfaces selling imported goods to buyers in the EU to collect, declare and pay the VAT to the tax authorities, instead of making the buyer pay the VAT at the moment the goods are imported into the EU as it was previously the case (for products over 22 EUR).

What are the advantages of IOSS?

IOSS facilitates the collection, declaration and payment of VAT for sellers making distance sales of imported goods to buyers in the EU. The IOSS also makes the process easier for the buyer, who is only charged at the time of purchase, and therefore does not face any surprise fees when the goods are delivered. If the seller is not registered in the IOSS, the buyer has to pay the VAT and usually a customs clearance fee charged by the transporter.

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