Hawaiian Artisan Greens: 2 Teas Flight

Fields of Green - Richness & Roast 

A Side by Side Taste of Hawai’i

Mauna Kea Tea farm has an “at first sip, unforgettable” quality to everything they do. From pluck to pour, their teas deliver experiences worth remembering. I happily came to that sense years ago in an article writing about the simple yet profound learning opportunity I had undergone making & brewing tea there. (Link will be in newsletter)

So here we have another plucking & possible pouring to learn & enjoy from. These two teas were hand picked, two leaves & bud standard, only a month apart from the same field.

Natural farming at Mauna Kea tea is an ongoing lesson in observation & experimentation, in adaptation & evolution. The field used to make these two green teas is one of my favorites that makes their signature “Orchid Dew”, but in this case the field hadn’t been picked in two years, let alone never being sprayed or fertilized, it makes for a pristine experience of land, plant, and artisan processing

The land is extraordinarily pure, managed with great respect and care, the plants are in a phase of spring flushing yet these two batches end up very different. Processing tea is a yearly rhythm for Taka, just seeing what’s there, what can be made, what wants to be made, to standards I haven’t often found, certainly not in Hawaii.

One tea is exceedingly rich with no finished bake, and the other went through multiple roasts to hone the material.

one ounce of each tea for $66 hand picked last spring