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Our table wine of green teas. Earthy and smooth.

Aroma: Earthy, vegetal-sweet

Taste: Full-bodied, savory

$9.95 per 100-gram packet

Monk's Choice™ is a honcha, or traditional green tea, as opposed to other types of tea such as 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. The rich volcanic soils of the Mt. Aso foothills, where this tea is grown, make 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.

To brew, use 1 heaping teaspoon of tea leaves for an 8-ounce cup or mug. The water temperature should be about 75 degrees Celcius (167 degrees Fahrenheit). (For more on water temperature, see here.) For the first steeping, let the tea brew for about 3 minutes. For the second and third steepings, let the tea brew for about 30 seconds to 1 minute.

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The youngest, topmost leaves. Refined aroma and flavor.

Aroma: Lightly earthy, tangy, vegetal-sweet

Taste: Clean, creamy, softly tangy, with grapefruit overtones

$14.75 per 100-gram packet

This is our top-of-the-line honcha, or traditional green tea. Top Leaf™ Green Tea is specially pampered in its own separate corner of the tea orchard. Not only does this tea receive extra fertilizer (organic, of course) during the growing season, but at harvest time, the growers pick only the top layer of young tea leaves. The result is a distinctive, more subtle, gentler flavor. This tea is always first flush.

You'll taste the TLC (Tender Loving Care) that goes into this special tea. Treat yourself to one of the best green teas in the Aso tea-growing region—Mellow Monk^® Top Leaf™ Green Tea.

Top Leaf™ Green Tea comes vacuum-sealed for freshness in foil packets. Each packet contains 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of tea, enough to make 40 to 50 cups of brewed tea.

To brew, use 1 heaping teaspoon of tea leaves for an 8-ounce cup or mug. The water temperature should be about 75 degrees Celcius (167 degrees Fahrenheit). (For more on water temperature, see here.) For the first steeping, let the tea brew for about 3 minutes. For the second and third steepings, let the tea brew for about 30 seconds to 1 minute.

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Made from only the choicest young buds.

Aroma: Succulent, vegetal

Taste: Rich, earthly, sweet aftertaste, with hints of spinach and asparagus

$17.95 per 100-gram packet

Blissful Buds™ is a mecha, or bud tea — made from young, unopened buds.

This is the type of tea served at the end of a meal at the best sushi restaurants, where the tea is referred to as agari. Blissful Buds™ has a rich, deep flavor and a slightly bitter but palate-cleansing aftertaste.

Mellow Monk Blissful Buds™ comes vacuum-sealed for freshness in foil packets. Each packet contains 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of tea, enough to make 40 to 50 cups of brewed tea.

To brew, use 1 heaping teaspoon of tea leaves for an 8-ounce cup or mug. The water temperature should be about 75 degrees Celcius (167 degrees Fahrenheit). (For more on water temperature, see here.) For the first steeping, let the tea brew for about 3 minutes. For the second and third steepings, let the tea brew for about 30 seconds to 1 minute.

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Shade grown. Exquisite flavor.

Aroma: Earthy, hint of lavender

Taste: Hearty, sweet, melon overtones

$29.95 per 100-gram packet

This is a truly exquisite green tea that will please the most discerning of palates.

Shaded Leaf™ is our most premium green tea — a kabuse-cha (literally "covered tea"). About 21 days before harvest, the tea plants are shaded with a woven covering that blocks out about 90% of sunlight. This stimulates the plants to produce extra catechins — including superhealthy EGCG — resulting in a smooth, full flavor, with less astringency than other senchas.

Shaded Leaf™ comes vacuum-sealed for freshness in foil packets. Each packet contains 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of tea, enough to make 40 to 50 cups of brewed tea.

To brew, use 1 heaping teaspoon of tea leaves for an 8-ounce cup or mug. The water temperature should be about 75 degrees Celcius (167 degrees Fahrenheit). (For more on water temperature, see here.) For the first steeping, let the tea brew for about 3 minutes. For the second and third steepings, let the tea brew for about 30 seconds to 1 minute.

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Leaves with some stems. Exquisitely mild, not grassy.

Aroma: Rich, lightly vegetal

Taste: Smooth, chewy, very low astringency, overtones of sage

$15.75 per 100-gram packet

Monk's Bliss™ is a shiraore, similar to Top Leaf in that it's made from the topmost layer of the newest, greenest leaves, but with part of the stems included, too. That, plus a slightly different processing technique, produces a completely different tea—a rich, thick flavor and a surprising smoothness. Monk's Bliss is less grassy and astringent than ordinary green tea. Like our Genmaicha and Hojicha, this is a good tea for those who don't like the grassy flavor and aroma normally associated with green tea. This tea is always first flush—made from the first harvest of spring leaves.

In Aso, this tea is often given as a gift on occasions like New Year's or as an ochugen, or summer gift.

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

To brew, use 1 heaping teaspoon of tea leaves for an 8-ounce cup or mug. The water temperature should be about 75 degrees Celcius (167 degrees Fahrenheit). (For more on water temperature, see here.) For the first steeping, let the tea brew for about 3 minutes. For the second and third steepings, let the tea brew for about 30 seconds to 1 minute.

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Tasty tamaryokucha prepared matcha style.

Aroma: Vibrant and clean

Taste: Fresh, slightly vegetal

$16.95 per 95-gram packet  SOLD OUT

Traditional tea craftsmanship meets modern Japanese tea processing technology.

A revolutionary concept: Quality loose-leaf tea gently transformed into an ultra-fine powder. Matcha-Style Powdered Green Tea is made from the same yabukita variety of tea plant as our other fine teas but is specially processsed after harvest to dissolve easily in hot or cold water.

To brew hot, use the provided measuring spoon to add a small spoonful to a cup or mug filled with hot water. Mix briskly and enjoy. To brew cold, add one or two small spoonful to a bottle or other sealable container, seal, then shake briskly.

(Some settling may occur in cold-brewed tea. When that happens, simply shake the tea again.)

You can even incorporate green tea into your culinary life—simply sprinkle a spoonful onto any dish right before eating, or add it during the cooking process, for a delightful, tasty touch of green tea goodness.

Each resealable packet contains 95 grams of powdered tea, enough to make literally gallons and gallons of brewed tea.

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A savory, nutty flavor in harmony with earthy goodness.

Aroma: Nutty, roasted grains

Taste: Smooth, slightly savory, subdued astringency

$8.75 per 100-gram packet   SOLD OUT

Harmoney Tea™ is our genmaicha — green tea mixed with roasted rice. The rice imparts a nutty, toasty flavor that makes genmaicha one of the most popular types of green tea in America. Unlike some tea growers, our growers roast their own rice, which they buy from local farmers. (During roasting, some of the rice grains pop like popcorn. This popped rice is also included in the mixture to enhance the flavor.)

Mellow Monk^® Harmony Tea™ has just the right amount of roasted rice to strike a perfect balance between the nutty flavor of the rice and the rich, earthy flavor of our small-farm tea, so that one flavor doesn't mask the other.

Mellow Monk^® Harmony Tea™ comes vacuum-sealed for freshness in foil packets. Each packet contains 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of tea, enough to make 40 to 50 cups of brewed tea.

To brew, use 1 heaping teaspoon of tea leaves for an 8-ounce cup or mug. The water temperature should be about 75 degrees Celcius (167 degrees Fahrenheit). (For more on water temperature, see here.) For the first steeping, let the tea brew for about 3 minutes. For the second and third steepings, let the tea brew for about 30 seconds to 1 minute.

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Blissful Buds™ Silken Pouches

Convenience without sacrificing quality.

Aroma: Succulent

Taste: Rich, earthly, sweet aftertaste, with hints of spinach and asparagus

$16.75 per 75-gram packet

This tea's luscious aroma and earthy, full-bodied flavor will transport you to your own private tea garden ... but with easier cleanup.

This is the same ultra-high-quality Blissful Buds™ green tea but sealed into pyramid-shaped silken infusing pouches. Like all of our teas, the tea inside is grown on family-owned and -operated tea farms in Aso, Japan.

The infusers are made of a high-quality, ultrafine silken mesh, so as not to interfere with the tea's flavor or aroma. And instead of a flat shape, the silken infusers have a three-dimensional pyramidal shape to allow the tea inside to diffuse and swirl around, for more complete brewing and tastier tea.

Blissful Buds™ Silken Pouches are exquisitely easy to brew. Simply put one tea pouch into a cup or mug of hot water, or two pouches into a teapot. Allow to steep for 3 minutes for the first infusion, or 1 minute for the 2nd or 3rd infusions. The tea infusers come in a handy resealable foil packet to keep in freshness.

Each packet of Blissful Buds™ Silken Pouches contains 20 pouches of green tea.

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Payment

Mellow Monk^® accepts all major credit cards and PayPal. Both options utilize third-party payment processors equipped with the latest in cyber security. Mellow Monk^® does not retain your credit card or PayPal information.

Shipping

• Free shipping on orders of $30.00 or more. (Domestic orders only.)
• Domestic (USA) shipping: 1 packet $2.35, 2 packets $3.35, 3 packets $3.85.
• International shipping: 1 to 3 packets US$14.95, 4 to 6 packets US$31.25, 7 to 10 packets US$35.50, 11 to 20 packets US$43.95, 21 to 35 packets US$55.95. For shipping on more than 35 packets, please contact us at info at mellowmonk dot com.
• Mellow Monk ships by U.S. Postal Service (USPS) First Class Mail (1 to 3 packets) or Priority Mail (4 packets or more) with free Delivery Confirmation. Upon receipt of your order, we will email the USPS tracking number to you so you can track your order at usps.com.
• International orders ship by U.S. Postal Service Global Priority Mail.
• All orders ship within 24 hours (except Saturdays, in which case the tea ships on the following Monday).
• Delivery time is 2 to 5 days for domestic orders and approximately 1 week for international orders.