Hoshino Seichaen Houju review
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Product Details
- Brand
- Hoshino Seichaen
- Origin
- Yame, Fukuoka
- Grade
- Ceremonial
- Cultivars
- Yame Blend
- Sizes
- 20g
- Description
The top grade of matcha produced by Hoshino Seichaen, blended each year from the most carefully selected leaves of the new harvest. Recommended as koicha (thick tea) where its layered umami and elegant fragrance fully open up; equally luxurious as usucha. Highly limited — Keiko Uchida caps purchases at one tin per order.
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Drink Houju as koicha or don't bother
I get one tin per order, like everyone else does, and the temptation is to stretch it across a month of usucha. Don't. Houju is built to be koicha and the layered umami doesn't open all the way up unless you actually thicken it. 4g, 1.5oz water, 175°F, the texture is the closest thing I've had to a top-shelf Marukyu koicha at a price that isn't actively offensive. Long sweet finish with almost no astringency, and the fragrance makes you slow down between sips. Frankly the only reason this isn't a 10 is that I still think Tenju is the ceiling for koicha and Houju sits one tier below in complexity. Will rebuy. (My bank account does not get a vote.)