お爺さんが手間暇かけたお茶はいかがですか？山間の静かな場所で、朝霧がかかり、伊勢神宮にも通じる清流宮川の清浄な地水で丹精込めて作り上げられた煎茶です。慌ててお茶を摘まず、長年の経験で一番美味しい時期に摘みます。なぜなら、お爺さんのお茶は旨いって言われたいから。1)お湯を冷ます。人数分の茶碗にお湯を8分目ほど入れてお湯を冷まします。お湯の温度は甘味を出すなら約70℃、少し渋みが欲しいなら冷まさずに。2)茶を入れます。5人分で約10g、2～3人分の場合、1人分3g位を目安に。
How about a tea produced by a grandpa? The tea farm is in a quiet mountain area that is covered with morning mist in the mornings, and there is a river close by, named Miyagawa which runs through to the famous Ise shrine in Mie prefecture, Japan. This Sencha green tea is made meticulously by a grandpa using the cristal-clear ground water of Miyagawa. He does not rush to pick tea leaves even after tea-picking season starts, rather he waits until his tea tree are ready for picking. He knows from his long experience when is the best time to pick them to produce tea leaves with the best flavor and taste. He makes tea leaves only because he wants to hear, “Granpa’s tea tastes delicious.”
Cool hot water down
Pour hot water to tea cup(s) to let it cool. Cool it down to 70 ℃ for sweeter flavor, and use hot water without cooling for bitter flavor.
2. Put tea leaves into a teapot: Use about 10 grams of tea leaves for five people, and three grams for a person.
お茶の量はご家庭にあるティースプーン1杯がおよそ2～3人分です。3)お湯を注ぐ。茶碗で冷ましたお湯を急須に注ぎます。しばらく待ちます。待ち時間は、煎茶で50～60秒、深蒸しで30秒。4)お茶をつぐ。お茶は廻し注ぎで均等に入れる。最後に絞りきるのが大事。急須に水分を残さない。2回目を美味しく出す為のコツです。
One teaspoonful of tea leaves serves about for 2 - 3 people.
3. Pour hot water into a tea pot: Pour the hot water in the tea cup(s) into a tea pot. Let it steep for a while. Let it steep for 50 - 60 seconds for Sencha green tea, and 30 seconds for deeply steamed tea.
4. Serve tea: Do not fill up the cup(s) one by one, but serve tea evenly little by little into each cup, continue serving the tea until each cup is filled up. (You will probably make a couple of rounds to fill up all the cups.) It is important to pour the tea out of the pot at the end. Make sure there is no tea left in the pot. This is a tip to have the second serving deliciously.
