Watanabe Kabuse Yutaka Midori Shincha Update & Shutaro Hayashi’s Kirishima Shincha from the Varietal Asatsuyu

This morning, we called Mrs. Watanabe at Yakushima, who happily anounced that yesterday, meaning on 21st April, also the Kabuse Yutaka Midori Shincha was harvested and processed. It is extraordinary that this year, the varietal Asatsuyu had been harvested before the Yutaka Midori varietal. In the last years, it was always the other way around.

The Kirishima Asatsuyu varietal at Shutaro Hayashi’s organic tea garden

From Shutaro Hayashi, too, there are news concerning his marvellous Kirishima Asatsuyu varietal. You best look for yourselves, how beautifully the tea bushes sprouted. For the next days, there are no forecasts for rain in Kirishima, so the tea bushes grow very slowly because of the mild temperatures by day and the rather chilly nights with temperatures only in the single-digit zone. In the middle of next week, there shall be rain again. This sounds like really ideal conditions for a great tea.

Shutaro Hayashi’s Kirishima tea garden with the Asatsuyu cultivar

Table of the Shincha harvest 2017, status 22nd April 2017

location tea garden tea bush varietal estimated date
of the Shincha harvest 2017
South-Kyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture,
Yakushima Island		 Mankichi Watanabe’s organic tea garden Kuritawase cultivar
 harvested on 13th April 2017
South-Kyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture,
Yakushima Island		 Mankichi Watanabe’s organic tea garden Yutaka Midori cultivar
 harvested on 21st April (later than usual for Yutaka Midori)
South-Kyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture,
Yakushima Island		 Mankichi Watanabe’s organic tea garden Sae Midori cultivar
 harvested on 15th April 2017
South-Kyushu, Kagoshima Prefecture,
Yakushima Island		 Mankichi Watanabe’s organic tea garden Asatsuyu cultivar
 harvested on 15th April 2017
South-Kyushu, Miyazaki Prefecture Haruyo and Shigeru Morimoto’s organic tea garden Yutaka Midori cultivar
 estimated 28th April
South-Kyushu, Miyazaki Prefecture Haruyo and Shigeru Morimoto’s organic tea garden Saki Midori cultivar
 estimated 29th April
South-Kyushu, Kumamoto Prefecture,
region Minamata		 Kazuya Matsumoto’s tea garden Yabukita cultivar
 estimated 28th April
South-Kyushu, Kagoshima Prefectur, region Kirishima Shutaro Hayashi’s tea garden Asatsuyu cultivar
 estimated 30th April
Honshu, Mie Prefecture,
region Ise		 Iwao Hayashi’s organic tea garden Yabukita cultivar
 estimated 10th to 20th May
Honshu, Shizuoka Prefecture comparative tea garden Yabukita cultivar
 estimated 22th May