Tsuyuhikari is one of the cultivars of tea plants (Camellia Sinensis). It has become more popular due to its brilliant green color in the infusion and sweeter taste.

Oguri Farm co. Ltd. provides one of the best “Tsuyuhikari” using strictly selected tea leaves.

The appearance of tea leaves and the package “Tsuyuhikari” provided by Oguri Farm co. Ltd.

In events, Oguri Farm serves Tsuyuhikari tea in the special manner shown in the following photo as written at the past post.

They brew tea by ice water at very slow rate with using the dripping apparatus! This cold-slowly extraction results in the condensed mellow green tea. This infusion contains rich umami, sweetness, thick mouthfeel and express somehow floral fragrance. Someone says that the smell is similar to the aroma of cherry leaves.

If we don’t have such apparatus, we can make nice tea close to the cold-slowly extracted tea at home.
The solution is steeping tea more than one night in the refrigerator.
In this method, of course we can enjoy re-steeping by using hot water.

Infusions of “Tsuyuhikari”. The right one is 1st infusion. The central one is 2nd and the left one is 3rd infusion.

Surprisingly this “Tsuyuhikari” has great endurance to color. 2nd infusion has still slightly transparent and brilliant emerald green. And deeper bright green in 3rd infusion, as shown in the following photo.

I’d like to recommend some scenes suit for each infusion as follows.

• 1st infusion – I’d like to drink itself only to enjoy the rich aroma and mellow umami.
• 2nd infusion – I think this 2nd infusion is suit for slightly sweet stuff because its taste is not so strong, thus it doesn’t weaken the taste of others and satisfy the demand to refresh our mouthfeel after eating sweet stuff. For example, dishes using sweet potato, such as steamed sweet potato and candied sweet potato.
• 3rd infusion – 3rd infusion is suit for almost all stuff! In meal, this deeper green color provides us a nice contrast with other dishes!