Organic Matcha Powder Sample Sachet

Organic matcha powder from Japan. Matcha is whole green tea leaf stone ground into powder, so you drink the leaf itself rather than an infusion of it. That is why it is thicker, greener and far more intense than brewed green tea.

Matcha has a learning curve that no other tea in the range has. The first cup you make will almost certainly be lumpy, and the third will be fine. Four serves gives you the practice runs, which is a much better use of $3.50 than ruining the first two cups of a $14.00 tin.

The traditional method: sift a teaspoon into a bowl, add half a cup of hot water that is not boiling, and whisk hard in a zig zag rather than a circle until it foams. Sifting is the step people skip and it is the step that stops the lumps.

$3.50 for the sachet, $14.00 for 50g. Organic Matcha in full size is here once you have the technique, and the green tea collection has the leaf teas.