Chiyonoen Tea GardenCeremonial

#28 Standard Ceremonial Grade Yame Matcha - Single Cultivar Hime Midori

Name: #28 Standard Ceremonial Grade Yame Matcha - Single Cultivar Hime Midori
Brand: Chiyonoen Tea Garden
Price: 15.94 USD

Ceremonial, sourced from Yame

UmamiAstringent

$15.94 (20g)

~$0.80 per gram

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Grade

Ceremonial

Region

Yame

Certification

Organic

Price in context

At $0.80 per gram, it costs less than 62% of the other 969 matchas in the database with a confirmed price and size. Among the 72 Yame matchas with a confirmed price, the median is $1.22 per gram, and this one is well under the regional median.

Compared across 970 products with a confirmed price and size, with yen, pound and euro prices converted to dollars. See how Yame compares · How we research

Sourcing

Yame, Japan

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Tasting notes

The Harashima family's Matcha is a standard ceremonial grade matcha made with a relatively new and rare cultivar, Hime Midori. Shaded for about 4 weeks prior to harvest, with a good balance between astringency and umami flavor. Ingredients: Green Tea Cultivar: Hime midori Harvest: Spring Region: Upper mountains of Yabe village, Yame District, Fukuoka, Japan. Altitude about 600 meters. About the Farm Chiyonoen Tea Farm is a small tea garden operated by husband and wife farmers Masashi and Eri Harashima deep in the mountains of Yabe Village, Fukuoka, Japan. The 3rd generation farm specializes in high grade mountain-grown sencha and gyokuro. Established...

Composition

L-theanine

24.31 mg/g

Ceremonial-grade published estimate — Goto et al., upper-grade matcha samples, Tea Research Report No.80:23-28 (1994)

EGCG

59.3 mg/g

Ceremonial-grade published estimate — Goto et al., upper-grade matcha samples, Tea Research Report No.83:21-28 (1996)

Pricing as disclosed

20g — $15.94

Full details

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Size: 20g / 0.7 oz / Spring Harvest
Price Jpy: 20g / 0.7 oz / Spring Harvest: ¥2,480
Price Note: Prices as listed in the brand's own storefront in JPY.
Ingredients: Green Tea
Cultivar: Hime midori
Harvest: Spring
Region: Upper mountains of Yabe village, Yame District, Fukuoka, Japan. Altitude about 600 meters.
Description: The Harashima family's Matcha is a standard ceremonial grade matcha made with a relatively new and rare cultivar, Hime Midori. Shaded for about 4 weeks prior to harvest, with a good balance between astringency and umami flavor. Ingredients : Green Tea Cultivar : Hime midori Harvest : Spring Region : Upper mountains of Yabe village, Yame District, Fukuoka, Japan. Altitude about 600 meters. About the Farm Chiyonoen Tea Farm is a small tea garden operated by husband and wife farmers Masashi and Eri Harashima deep in the mountains of Yabe Village, Fukuoka, Japan. The 3rd generation farm specializes in high grade mountain-grown sencha and gyokuro. Established by his grandfather and the farm's namesake, Chiyokichi. Learn more about Chiyonoen Tea Garden
Storefront Tags: [ "Ceremonial Grade", "Cultivar_Hime Midori", "family business", "farm", "Fukuoka", "Harvest_Spring", "Hime Midori", "Matcha Grade_4 - Ceremonial Grade (Standard)", "mountain", "Mountain-grown", "Notes_Single Cultivar", "Notes_Single Estate", "organic", "Organic_Grown Without Chemical Fertilizers", "Organic_Grown Without Pesticides", "P80", "Price_3 - Affordable", "Region_Fukuoka", "sara to taste", "single cultivar", "single estate", "single field", "single tea field", "spring", "Subregion_Fukuoka > Yame", "Tea Type_Matcha", "Vendor Type_Family Business", "Vendor Type_Farm", "wholesale30", "Yame", "Yamecha" ]
Storefront Category: Green Tea - Matcha

Research notes

Imported 2026-10-06 from the brand's own Shopify storefront feed (https://yunomi.life/products.json); description is the brand's own copy. Archived prices are JPY as listed on that storefront; current prices are re-scraped from the live product page where the site allows it. Not individually hand-verified beyond the feed.