Description
🌿 Green Tea🌸 Cherry Blossom🇯🇵 Japanese Style🌿 Loose Leaf
The cherry-blossom cup — Japanese sencha-style green tea scented with sakura, the spring-seasonal tea built around hanami.
In Japan, the brief two-week season when cherry trees flower — sakura, in spring — is one of the country’s defining cultural moments. Hanami, “flower viewing”, fills parks across Kyoto and Tokyo with picnic blankets under the petals; cherry blossom appears on every product, from rice crackers to sake to confectionery to tea. This is the tea version of that moment: a Japanese-style green tea base scented with cherry blossom, the spring cup in a tin.
Sencha-style green is the steamed Japanese green leaf — not the pan-fired Chinese style — which gives a lighter, sweeter, more vegetal cup with a clean grassy edge. Cherry blossom petals are scattered through the leaf, adding a soft floral top note that reads delicately fruity rather than perfumed. The cup brews pale-gold and clean; the season fits in the tin.
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Sencha-Style Base
Steamed Japanese-style green — sweeter, more vegetal
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Cherry Blossom
Real petals scattered through the leaf
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Spring Seasonal
Built around hanami — the cherry-blossom moment
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Type
Green Tea (flavoured)
Caffeine
Low–Medium
Best Time
Afternoon, spring
Format
Loose Leaf
Steep Time
2–3 min
Servings
~25 cups (50g)
Tasting Notes
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Soft Floral Top
Aroma
The cherry blossom arrives first — soft, slightly fruity-floral, the smell of sakura petals more than perfume. Reads delicate rather than heavy; the green-tea grass note sits clean behind it.
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Sweet Vegetal Body
Body
The body is the soft, slightly umami sweetness of Japanese-style green leaf — the steamed processing pulls a vegetal-sweet character out of the leaf that pan-fired Chinese green doesn’t do. Round, light, never grassy-aggressive.
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Clean Floral Finish
Aftertaste
Closes with a soft floral aftertaste — cherry blossom hangs longer than the green tea’s grassy edge, ending the cup on a delicate note rather than a sharp one.
How to Brew
01
Measure
One heaped teaspoon (about 2g) per 8oz cup. Sencha-style leaf is finer-cut than Chinese green — a level scoop is enough.
02
Heat to ~80°C
Boil and let stand 30–60 seconds, or pull just as bubbles form. Japanese green over 80°C goes harshly grassy — keep the temperature low and the cherry blossom comes through clean.
03
Steep 2–3 Minutes
Two for a softer cup, three for fuller body. Don’t go past four — Japanese green tea is sensitive to over-steeping.
Water
~80°C
Time
2–3 min
Per Cup
1 heaped tsp
Drinks well neat — the floral note is built in, no honey or sugar required. For a hanami picnic, brew double-strength, chill, and pour over ice with a few fresh edible flowers in the glass. The cup that fits the season.
About the Tea
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Sencha-Style Green
The Base
Steamed Japanese-style green tea — the sencha process distinguishes Japanese green from Chinese pan-fired green. Steaming preserves more of the leaf’s natural sweetness and umami character; the cup runs softer and more vegetal than Chinese green.
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Cherry Blossom Petals
The Season
Real cherry blossom petals scattered through the leaf — visible in the tin. They add a soft, slightly fruity-floral aroma that reads as the smell of sakura season more than as a bottled perfume.
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Hanami Tradition
The Tradition
Hanami — the Japanese tradition of cherry-blossom viewing — turns the brief two-week sakura season into a national event. Cherry-blossom tea, sakura confectionery and pink-coloured spring foods all live in that two-week window. This tin is the everyday version of that moment.
In the tin
Sencha-style green tea, cherry blossom petals, natural cherry flavour.
Origin & Sourcing
Built on Japanese sencha-style green tea — steamed leaf, the soft-and-vegetal style — with real cherry blossom petals and a natural cherry flavour. A spring-seasonal tea built around hanami, drinks well year-round, blended in small batches for the Sampson shelf.
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