Chiran TEA

06/04/2021

Great News!!

Singer-songwriter Steve Harris is pleased to announce that his composition "Green Tea Blues" has been selected as the best jazz song for March in the Tracks Music Awards (TMA) songwriting competition. TMA, launched in 2016, selects the best songwriters and recognizes the most committed music creators from all over the world. Green Tea Blues is available on all digital music download and streaming platforms around the world and directly from Harris.

30/03/2021

Harvest of 2021 new tea has just begun in Chiran!!

29/03/2021

Matcha product from Chiran is now ready! Please visit this online shop. We can ship to overseas.

This elegant matcha uses the “Saemidori” cultivar allowing more “umami” than other cultivars and boasts a refreshing “kaori (scent)” typical of Chiran. It will remind you the warm sunlight of early spring.

30/11/2020

【Small tea party at a balcony in Chiran】Part2
It’s getting colder in the morning and at night in Minamikyushu City! How about your place?
On the other hot day like an early summer, we enjoyed four types of Chiran Tea at a balcony again.
It is very nice to have a tea party outside in autumn!
This time, we compared the tastes of two single estate green teas and two blend green teas as follows.

Single estate tea: Asatsuyu
Single estate tea: Harumoegi
Blend A: Straw covered tea (Warakake Tea) *Check about this tea at news on our website
Blend B: Shallow steamed tea made in Yukimaru area

Asatsuyu has a beautiful green color and smooth rich umami. Harumoegi has a subtly sweet rich and full flavor, and unique nice taste. Both of them are very important in blending of Chiran tea.
About Warakake Tea, it has a mild covered “kabuse” flavor and umami with sweetness. It has a nice grassy aroma.
Shallow steamed tea, “Asamushi cha”, has a sweet aroma and mild kabuse flavor.
It has a clean taste, which is different from deep steamed sencha.

Actually, our website will be renovated in near future. Chiran Tea has a lot of characters.
We are sure that our new website vary your choice of Japanese tea and give you more happiness 🙂

02/11/2020

Have you ever heard the name of Yukimura Sanada ?
He is a very popular samurai warrior and often a main character of historic drama in Japan. 🥰

And guess what? Yukimaru(雪丸), a production area of Chian Tea, is a land of him in Minamikyushu City. 😃
We can see great Mt. Kaimon, Pacific Ocean, and beautiful tea fields different from other spots of Chiran Tea there! We can also enjoy a walking course to the tomb of Yukimura and buy Yukimaru-only sweets at a souvenir shop. The walking course is steep hills, but the one way is only about 10 min. It’s good exercise!
Main cast of famous TV drama visited here. If you have an interest of Yukimaru, please check the following Instagram on Nov.14
minamikyushu ：Official Instagram of Minamikyushu City

Ms. Toko Kawaguchi, an coordinator of Chiran Tea, delivers the live on the air in Japanese from there.
If you don’t understand Japanese, you must be feeling the atmosphere! 😀

green tea tea tea tea drink ＃Minamikyushu fields Sanada

21/10/2020

【Small tea party at a balcony in Chiran】Part1🙂
Do you think that the taste and color of Japanese steamed green tea are almost same?
The answer is No.☹️ It depends on kinds of tea leaves, temperature of hot water, and brewing time etc.
This time, we compared the taste of three different deep steamed green teas.
The contents of the teas are as follows:
Blend A type: Yabukita Okumidori Saemidori
Blend B type: Asatsuyu Yabukita Yutakamidori
Blend C type: Saemidori Okumidori Yutakamidori

Many Chiran Teas are deep steamed green teas. Those have rich aroma like sea w**d and full flavor.
Each tea (A, B, C) has sweetness, but in addition, blend teas with Yabukita (A,C) have a sharpness.
Another blend tea with three midori (B) has a smooth mouth feel.
When you have some sweets with Japanese tea, it may be better to drink the Japanese tea with Yabukita because of nice bitterness. On the other hand, you will enjoy the Japanese tea like C type without sweets.

Absolutely, tea is personal preference.
If you have a single estate Japanese tea, you must be feeling each character of the tea.
If you have a blend Japanese tea, you should enjoy the complex flavor.
We hope you also enjoy a tea party like us to taste the depth of Japanese tea with your friends and family!

02/10/2020

It’s the season of autumn bancha.🍂
Lovely autumn breeze is blowing at the tea fields of Ushirodake, the treasure of Chiran Tea, in Minamikyushu City.
The prize-laden tea fields were made by carving out of Mt. Ushirodake and known as green-tea production area of high quality.🙂

Stone monument on the top of Ushirodake says,
“Making land and living for tea”

Look at these impressive sceneries together with Mt. Kaimon and brilliant green tea terraced fields.🙂

03/09/2020

In August 31st, the National Fair of Tea announced the result of Tea in 2020.

Minamikyushu City got a gold medal in the category of production area for the first time in the last 4 years!😉
Chiran Tea took the 1st, 2nd, 5th and 7th places in the category of individual producers, as well.
The excellence of our tea was proved No.1 in Japan.🙂

We appreciate all the people involved to hold the fair under perfect prevention against corona virus. 🙂

12/08/2020

Let’s go to another side of Mt. Ono-dake.
Tea plantations, Lake Ikeda, and Mt. Kaimon are seen more splendid!
Enjoy the great view!