Hoshino Seichaen - Yame no Hana

🍃 Matcha Yame no Hana (八女の華)

• Origin: Hoshinomura, Yame, Fukuoka, Japan
• Producer: Hoshino Seichaen (Est. 1946)
• Cultivar: Principally Okumidori (おくみどり)
• Ingredients: 100% Japanese green tea (matcha)

🌿 Tasting Profile

• Color: Deep, saturated green — Okumidori is prized for how well it mills
• Aroma: Rich and toasty, with the depth Yame matcha is known for
• Flavor: Concentrated aroma and umami wrapped around a soft, gentle bitterness — never sharp
• Texture: Very fine particle; whisks easily into a smooth bowl
• Character: A versatile everyday matcha the producer offers for practice, for the home bowl, and for fine confectionery alike

🌸 Our Story

Hana means flower — here, the flower of Yame.

Most matcha is blended from several cultivars. This one is built principally on Okumidori, a cultivar that holds an unusual depth of colour in the leaf and mills into a green so saturated that Japanese pâtissiers seek it out specifically. Hoshino Seichaen make it for both worlds at once: a bowl good enough for the tea room, and a powder strong enough to carry a dessert without disappearing into the cream.

That double life suits it. This is the tin that ends up open on the counter — a bowl in the morning, a spoonful into a cake in the afternoon, and by the end of the week you have learned what Yame tastes like without ever sitting down for a lesson.

A note from us: stone-milled matcha this fine will clump in a bag. Sift it. It takes ten seconds and it changes the bowl.

☕ Enjoy it

Excellent as usucha, and one of the best matcha we carry for baking, ice cream and wagashi — the toasty depth survives sugar and dairy where lighter matcha does not. Sift before use.

🏯 About Hoshino Seichaen

Founded in 1946 in Hoshinomura — the "star village" of Oku-Yame, Fukuoka — Hoshino Seichaen grows, processes, stone-mills and sells its tea entirely in-house. Their matcha is made by applying the traditional hon-gyokuro cultivation method that made this village Japan's most celebrated gyokuro region. The garden is led by Yamaguchi Shinya, who at thirty-two became the youngest person ever certified as a cha-shi jūdan, a tenth-dan tea master — a rank held by fewer than twenty people in the country.