Yame Ceremonial Grade Gyokuro Matcha Wood-fired Mini Cakes vs Regular Tea

Mini Cakes vs Regular Tea Cakes For centuries—especially during the Song and Yuan dynasties—compressed tea shapes like cakes

starting with the dominating tangy notes of stone fruits like peach and cherry

Each leaf is carefully crafted into a signature oval “melon seed” shape

Each piece is finished with a smooth

Instead of speeding up fermentation through artificial wet piling

Yame Ceremonial Grade Gyokuro Matcha Wood-fired Mini Cakes vs Regular TeaThis is a slightly different kind of matcha. Most matcha is made from tencha, which is a shaded green tea thats dried flat, refined, and then ground into powder. This one, instead, is made from gyokuro. Gyokuro is also shade grown, but after steaming, the leaves go through an additional step of kneading and rolling. That process is traditionally meant to bring out more umami when brewed as a loose leaf tea. When those same leaves are turned into