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Personal Recommendation

I spent three years in the Gunma region of Japan and during that time came to love green tea, the taste and the health and the art of it all. The drinking of tea in Japan was almost meditational, slowing down time, learning to appreciate the wonder of the world in the smallest sip.

It has been a struggle to find authentic green tea here in America. When I first drank Mellow Monk's teas it was like being transported back across the seas. It is authentic, and rightly so- produced on the island of Kyushu in southern Japan, grown by family-owned and -operated Eco-Farmers (Japan's designation for environmentally responsible farming).

This is absolutely delicious green tea. If you appreciate the subtleties of green tea, then you will fall in love with the Mellow Monk.

From the Mellow Monk's website, a little bit about this amazing tea:

Monk's Choice is a honcha, or traditional green tea, as opposed to other types of tea such as hojicha (roasted tea), genmaicha (tea with roasted rice), or shiraore.

This is our most "standard" green tea, meaning the grower's most popular tea. It's prepared in the most popular style, and is what your typical Aso resident sips all day.

Another term for honcha is "sencha." Our sencha is a type called tamaryokucha ("curly green tea"), the most popular style on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. Unlike the straight leaves of big-city sencha, country-style tamaryokucha is curled after steaming and drying during the tea-preparation process. These and other subtle differences in the tea-making process give tamaryokucha its distinctive fresh taste and muted astringency. In addition, the rich volcanic soils of the Mt. Aso foothills, where this tea is grown, makes for an exquisitely rich flavor and a hearty aroma, but without the bite that comes from other soil types.

Monk's Choice Green Tea comes vacuum-sealed for freshness in foil packets. Each packet contains 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of tea, enough to make 40–50 cups of brewed tea.

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We offer two of Mellow Monk's best teas, Monk's Choice and Top Leaf.