Encha's Founder, Li Gong (Stanford Ph.D. 2001), took a research journey to discover organic matcha farms in Uji, Nishio, and Shizuoka, Japan. He found that this is the best organic Japanese matcha in terms of color, taste, USDA organic certification, and overall quality.
Ceremonial matcha traditionally means that tea masters use their best matcha powder for the tea ceremony. Thus, ceremonial matcha should be the highest grade in a matcha collection and will differ across matcha brands. In the first harvest of each spring, our farmer selects the most tender, premium quality matcha green tea leaves, and grinds them as our ceremonial matcha green tea powder. It has a purely green color and the smoothest and richest taste to be considered ceremonial grade matcha.
