Roasted Spring Bancha

This gentle roasted tea is made from leaves and stems that have grown through the winter and are harvested in spring before the new year's harvest. They are roasted lightly to bring out a soft sweetness and a warm, toasted aroma. The result is a soothing, almost zero-caffeine tea that sits somewhere between regular bancha and hōjicha — smooth, nutty and easy to enjoy throughout the day.

The liquor is golden-amber, with the scent of toasted rice and chestnut husk. The taste is light and sweet, with mild cereal tones and a lingering, clean finish. Because of its higher stem content, the texture is soft and rounded, never bitter. Late harvest bancha is often recommended for small babies and children because of the low caffeine content.

Jack Farm also emphasises this tea’s suitability for cold-water brewing and it has been commended by tea drinkers for its gentle roast character and depth, even with low caffeine.

Package size: 200g

How to prepare:

• Use 1 teaspoon (approx. 4g) of tea leaves per 150ml of water
• Water temperature: 100 °C
• Steep for about 20 seconds
• Re-infuse two to three times, increasing the steeping time with each brew

A comforting, aromatic roasted tea for any time of day - especially good after meals or with simple sweets.

Cold brew

1. Place about 10g of tea leaves into 1L of filtered water (you can use the leaves as-is, or put them in a 100% compostable tea bag for easy removal)
2. Place the container in the fridge and wait for approximately six hours.
3. Serve chilled for a relaxing tea experience.

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Jack Farm Tea is the tea farm of Jack (Pathomthat Thongchim) and Natsuki Goto - a formidable team of two who grow, harvest, make and market their own range of teas and rice. They are part of a new generation of passionate tea farmers who are very necessary to continue tea production in rural areas with aging populations. Wazuka town is a famous tea town situated close to Ujitawara and about 20km from Nara. It has a tea history of over 800 years. The Jack Farm focus is on using organic production methods to make their main ranges of sencha, houjicha, genmaicha and Japanese black tea. 

You can view the photos of the WAZA visit to Jack Tea Farm HERE.