Kanbayashi Shunsho Usucha Mozumukashi review
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- Brand
- Kanbayashi Shunsho
- Origin
- Uji, Kyoto
- Grade
- Premium
- Cultivars
- Unknown
- Sizes
- 20g, 40g, 100g
- Description
Mid-tier usucha, mild bitterness, balanced
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Silky little weekday treasure 🌿✨
I went down a rabbit hole reading about Kanbayashi Shunsho (450 years! shogun tea purveyors!!) and had to try one, and Mozumukashi felt like the cozy place to start 🍵 So glad I did. It's light and soft and genuinely silky, sweet and creamy with the gentlest nutty whisper and basically no bitterness, the kind of cup I can sip slowly on a quiet morning without overthinking my whisk technique 🥰 The color whisks up such a fresh bright green too. It's more delicate than my big Marukyu favorites so it won't bowl anyone over, but that softness is the whole charm for me. Such a lovely everyday Uji bowl. Don't sleep on the smaller houses, friends 💚🌿
Pleasant, slightly forgettable
Kanbayashi Shunsho is one of the three great Uji houses and has been making tea since roughly the 1500s, so I went in expecting some gravity. What I got was nice. Genuinely nice, and not much more. It's light, soft, a little sweet, faintly nutty, with almost no bitterness and a clean short finish. As an easy mid-tier weekday usucha it's perfectly good and it's priced sensibly. But for me it's missing depth. I kept waiting for a second act of umami or something from a house with that resume and it never quite arrived. Would I recommend it to someone starting out who wants something mild and unintimidating? Absolutely. Would I reach for it over a Marukyu at the same price? Probably not. It's a decent cup that I don't overtly crave.
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