CeremonialAsahi SC
Ceremonial, sourced from Uji, Asahi cultivar
$77.22 (20g)
~$3.86 per gram
Grade
Ceremonial
Cultivar
Asahi
Region
Uji
Price in context
At $3.86 per gram, it costs more than 96% of the other 969 matchas in the database with a confirmed price and size. Among the 353 Uji matchas with a confirmed price, the median is $1.29 per gram, and this one is roughly 3.0× the regional median. Among Tsujiki's 3 matchas with a confirmed price, this is its most expensive per gram.
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Sourcing
Uji, Japan
View the full sourcing map →Tasting notes
Description emphasizes umami flavor developed through amino-acid-focused cultivation practices; no separate explicit tasting-note paragraph found
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
Full details
Everything disclosed on the product page (16 fields)▾
- Full Product Name
- #0676.K6 Tsujiki: Asahi Imperial Ceremonial Grade Single Cultivar Uji Heritage Matcha by Master Kyoto Tea Farmer Tsuji Kiyoharu
- Price
- ¥12,000 (¥600 per gram)
- Size
- 20g / 0.7 oz refill bag in gift can
- Grade
- Imperial Ceremonial Grade
- Cultivar
- Asahi (single cultivar)
- Region
- Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- Harvest Timing
- May (first flush / spring)
- Farming Method
- Traditional cultivation with reed-and-straw canopy shading adjusted to block approximately 95% of sunlight; monthly soil analysis; annual amino acid content testing of the leaf
- Processing
- Steamed and dried in a traditional tencha oven; stems and veins removed before stone mill grinding
- Grinding Method
- Stone mill ground
- Packaging
- Yunomi pull-top can with inner bag
- Producer
- Kiyoharu Tsuji (Tsuji Kiyoharu), fifth-generation tea farmer
- Awards
- Numerous awards at Kyoto, West Japan (Kansai), and National competition levels; Prime Minister's Award for Agriculture (2017); per separate web-search summary, the Asahi cultivar specifically won the top Minister's Award at the National Tea Competition in 2022 and 3rd place in 2023 and 2024
- Tasting Notes
- Description emphasizes umami flavor developed through amino-acid-focused cultivation practices; no separate explicit tasting-note paragraph found
- Availability
- Listed as 'procured or produced on demand' (preorder)
- Reviews
- 5 customer reviews present on page (ratings/content not itemized)
Research notes
Fetched via third-party specialty retailer Yunomi.life, which appears to be the primary/authoritative English-language retailer for Tsujiki's single-cultivar matcha line (no distinct brand-operated Tsujiki English site was found). An initial attempt to source this product from ooika.co (a matcha education site referencing this product) returned a 404 error, so Yunomi.life was used instead.
