Bancha Green Tea
3.00€ / 50 gr.
The taste of Bancha tea is truly unique, with a strong smell of straw.
Bancha is a Japanese green tea whose main characteristic is that it is of lower quality than sencha. While the cultivation and processing are identical to sencha, there is a difference in the quality of the leaves used.
One way of making bancha is when the leaves are sorted after harvesting. The higher shoots of green tea are higher quality and thus used for sencha, while the lower shoots have leaves that are rougher and larger, so they end up being bancha.
The taste of Bancha tea is truly unique, with a strong smell of straw, and although it is considered the lowest quality of Japanese green tea on the market, it is very popular as an everyday tea in Japan.
Extraction time: 2-3 min
Temperature: 75-80 °C