# Matcha Green Tea Powder

> <p class="rte-p"><span>Ceremonial grade, first-harvest matcha, shaded before picking and stone-ground on granite mills to a talc-fine powder the color of new grass. Grassy, gently sweet and faintly of the sea.</span></p>

Price: 32.00 USD · in stock

## About
A bowl warmed with hot water, a bamboo whisk, and a few minutes of brisk, quiet attention until a fine, pale foam rises. Matcha asks for a small ceremony, and repays it with a cup that is grassy, gently sweet and faintly of the sea.These are first-harvest leaves, picked in spring and shaded for weeks beforehand to deepen their color and sweeten their character, then stone-ground on granite mills to a talc-fine powder the color of new grass. This is ceremonial grade, meant to be whisked and drunk whole: the tea itself, leaf and all, rather than an infusion of it. Matcha grew out of the Zen monasteries of medieval Japan, where monks drank it before long stretches of seated meditation, and the tea ceremony that formed around it treats the whisking itself as a quiet discipline.DetailsGrade: Ceremonial, first harvestLeaves: Shade-grown, picked in springMilling: Stone-ground on granite millsSize: 30 grams per tinHow to useWhisk half a teaspoon into a splash of hot, not boiling, water, working the bamboo whisk briskly until a fine, pale foam rises, then drink it slowly. Matcha naturally contains caffeine.A daily bowl of green stillness, taken slowly.