Green & white teas are famous throughout the world for their potent healing, detoxify and slimming properties. In China and Japan connoisseurs enjoy the thousands of shades of flavours produced by the regions, flushes and curing process’s.

White tea is made up of young buds, sun dried, with a delicate character and the potency of nature, it is subtle, healing and rare

In Japan the leaves are shade grown to increase the production of catechins and polyphenons, tea grown this way has a sweet and mild flavour, with fewer bitter tannins. The leaves are then cured by steaming, a technique that preserves the vital elements in the tea and accounts for the dark colour of high quality leaves.

In china green tea is heated over fire, and rolled in large woks or sun dried resulting in a range of generally more vegetal tasting teas with interesting shapes that they often take their names from (like gunpowder or eyebrows).

To find out more about our selection of green tea available to purchase - visit Cafe Sakura. Click here for our white teas