BLACK TEA - SCARLET SUNRISE 近藤早生 / Kondōwase 50g

Ingredients: Pure Japanese Black Tea

Type: Orthodox Black tea

Origin: Mariko, Shizuoka Prefecture

Cultivar: Kondōwase

In the late 19th century, a Japanese team embarked on an excursion to India, risking their lives to gather tea seeds suitable for black tea. Once in Japan, crossbred with local plants the offspring found a home in Mariko, the cradle of Japanese black tea. The legacy still lives on and, as this second flush so elegantly demonstrates, we can to this day still enjoy the delightful mix of Japanese gentleness and black tea pungency.