First and second harvest leaf from three Japanese regions, blended for the kind of matcha you reach for every day rather than save for a quiet morning. The aroma when you open the pouch is fresh and grassy with a soft sweetness underneath. Whisked plain at 75 degrees, the first sip is rounder than you'd expect from a culinary grade, with real green tea character rather than the flat bitterness most baking matcha settles for. The body is what makes it work in lattes. It carries through warm milk without thinning out, holds its colour in iced drinks, and bakes into brownies and cookies without losing the green. If you've tried other culinary matchas and found them dull or muddy in milk, this one tends to land cleaner.
Teafy Superior Culinary Matcha is a certified organic Japanese matcha blended from first and second harvest leaf across three farms in Shizuoka, Kagoshima and Miyazaki, bead milled to 1500 to 2000 mesh and lab tested in Australia. It is made for lattes, iced drinks, smoothies and baking, where the matcha has to stand up to milk, sugar and heat.
Open the pouch and it smells fresh and grassy with a soft sweetness underneath. In milk it is bright and full bodied with a clean green finish that does not disappear, which is the whole point of a culinary grade. Whisked plain it is more direct than the Ceremonial, with a firmer vegetal edge, so if you drink matcha with water choose the Ceremonial instead.
It foams well, like all three of our grades, but with water alone it has more bite than the Ceremonial, because it is milled coarser and built for milk. That is the honest trade, and it is priced for the kitchen, not the tea bowl. Use 3 to 4 g at 75 degrees, whisk with a splash of water, then add 150 ml of milk. Each 2 g serve carries about 55 to 65 mg of caffeine, more in a latte.
First and second harvest leaf from three regions, blended to our own recipe for body and consistency. Cafés use it because it costs less per cup and holds its colour in milk. One ingredient, nothing added. Certified organic. Lab tested in Australia for lead, arsenic, cadmium and mercury.
