Hoshino Seichaen - Yame no Tsuyu

🍃 Matcha Yame no Tsuyu (八女の露)

• Origin: Hoshinomura, Yame, Fukuoka, Japan
• Producer: Hoshino Seichaen (Est. 1946)
• Ingredients: 100% Japanese green tea (matcha)

🌿 Tasting Profile

• Color: Soft, even green
• Aroma: Markedly toasty and warm — the most immediately roasted-fragrant of the Hoshino teas we carry
• Flavor: Balanced, with umami and a clean edge of astringency holding each other in check
• Texture: Fine and light, whisks without fuss
• Character: The producer's tea for practice and for the everyday bowl — honest, consistent, unpretentious

🌸 Our Story

Tsuyu means dew. In Yame, that word carries weight: the region's finest gyokuro is called "the dew of the jewel," and the mountain mist that settles over Hoshinomura at dawn is the reason the tea tastes the way it does. Wide swings between day and night temperature pull fog up through the valleys, and that fog shades the gardens — the work of a covering, done by weather.

This is the tea Hoshino Seichaen made for people who drink matcha often. Not the tin saved for guests, but the one kept beside the kettle: whisked on a Tuesday morning, used for practice, made again in the afternoon without ceremony.

We think a collection needs a tea like this. The bowl you reach for without thinking is, in the end, the one that teaches you the most.

☕ Enjoy it

Ideal as usucha for daily drinking and for tea-ceremony practice. Its toasty character also holds up beautifully in a matcha latte or over ice. Sift before whisking.

🏯 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.