Versatile Premium Matcha 100g by Hoshino Seichaen, Yame

Made exclusively from first-harvest tea leaves, this Matcha offers an excellent balance of quality, flavor, and versatility. Its pleasant bite allows the character of the Matcha to remain present when combined with milk or milk alternatives, while its approachable price makes it easy to adjust the amount of Matcha to suit your taste. Use a little more for a deeper, richer Matcha flavor, or keep it lighter for an easy everyday latte.

You may see Matcha marketed as “ceremonial grade,” but this term is not an official grading standard in Japan. We prefer to describe our Matcha by its origin, harvest, flavor, and intended use rather than relying on this label. Our Versatile Premium Matcha is made exclusively from first-harvest tea leaves in Yame and, despite being selected for lattes and smoothies, can compare favorably in quality with many Matchas marketed elsewhere as “ceremonial grade.”

Looking for a richer, more concentrated Matcha flavor? Try our Deluxe Latte Grade Matcha, made with higher-grade first-harvest tea leaves for greater depth and intensity, especially when paired with milk and sweeteners.

At our café, we especially like it with oat milk and use it in our own lattes and smoothies. Our smoothies are made daily with a variety of ingredients, including Amazake (a naturally sweet fermented rice drink) and seasonal fruits.

This Matcha whisks beautifully in cold water, making it especially easy to prepare for iced lattes. We use cold water when preparing Matcha at our café, so there is no need to heat water when making an iced latte at home.

Quite often, stores and cafés will sell green tea powder in place of genuine, 100% Japanese-grown and produced Matcha. While green tea powder can be perfectly suitable for baking cookies or cakes, when it comes to drinking, we prefer to use real Matcha—and advise our guests to do the same.

We wanted to offer the same Matcha we use in our café to Matcha lovers and the Matcha-curious alike—whether you can’t make the trip to visit us or simply want to recreate the Tea Master experience at home.

PREPARATION: 

 – ICED MATCHA LATTE (16 OZ)

• 4g Matcha
• 2 oz cold water for whisking
• 3 oz additional cold water
• 5 oz milk or milk alternative (we like oat milk)
• Syrup or sweetener to taste
• Ice

Whisk the Matcha with 2 oz of cold water until smooth and free of lumps. Add the remaining cold water and sweetener to taste.

Fill a 16 oz tumbler with ice, pour in the Matcha mixture, and finish with milk.

For a lighter Matcha flavor, use 3g of Matcha.

PROVENANCE YOU CAN TRUST

We believe that the quality of matcha cannot be understood through color, cultivar, or origin alone. It is also important to know how and where the tencha was cultivated and processed, who selected and finished the tea, who created the final blend, and where and how it was stone-milled.

Our matcha comes directly from Hoshino Seichaen in Hoshino Village, Yame, Fukuoka, with whom we have maintained a close and continuing relationship. Depending on the tea, a blend may include tencha grown by several of Hoshino Seichaen’s partner producers. The leaves are carefully evaluated, finished, and blended by the tea specialists at Hoshino Seichaen before being ground on the company’s own stone mills under controlled conditions.

This direct relationship allows us to verify the production process and facilities behind the matcha we offer—from the cultivation and processing of the tencha through final blending and milling. For us, traceability is not simply a region printed on a package. It is an ongoing relationship with the producer and a clear understanding of how each matcha is made.

FLAVOR PROFILE:

Richness: 3/5
Bite: 4/5
Aroma: 2/5
Vibrancy: 2/5

MANUFACTURER: HOSHINO TEA COMPANY　星野製茶園

ORIGIN: Yame 八女, Fukuoka Prefecture 福岡県, Japan 日本

SIZE: 100 Grams (makes approximately 20–30 lattes or smoothies)

PACKAGING: Re-sealable plastic pouch