Standard Shincha Brew
Our standard recipe for brewing loose-leaf Shincha. Discover the vibrant and energetic quality of these freshly harvested tea leaves.




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This limited sencha green tea is released right after its harvest. A tall glass of iced Shincha is fragrant, energizing, and replenishing.
This year's Shincha will ship around early June. We are accepting discounted preorders for Shincha until April 23rd.
Note: Limited quantity available.
Each spring, as the weather starts to warm, the tea fields in the mountains south of Kyoto begin to awaken. The tea plants that huddled up, storing their energy and nutrients over the cold, long winter, begin to put out tiny green buds. Over the next month, these buds will begin to grow, reaching up and up for the wide blue sky. When the time is right, tea farmers will get busy harvesting the spry new leaves.
At Ippodo, we blend selected fresh new sencha harvests to produce our Shincha tea each year.
Up in the mountains, small changes in the weather day-to-day affect the nuances that develop in the tea leaves. As a result, the distinctive character of this year’s Shincha will never be repeated. While we are excited for what the harvest of 2025 Shincha will bring, every release of Shincha shares the vibrancy and energy of just-picked tea leaves.
Compared to our normal selection of sencha, Shincha has a powerful flavor, aroma, and aftertaste. Its youthful strength is refreshing, like a splash of ice-cold water on the face in the morning.
Like Shincha, our regular sencha lineup is also harvested once per year in late spring. We allow the regular senchas to rest until they develop a relaxed, mature flavor. We then blend them with previous harvests to produce a consistent product sold throughout the year.
We love our regular sencha selection for its calm and mature character. We love Shincha for its fleeting, energetic character that invigorates us at the start of summer.
Our standard recipe for brewing loose-leaf Shincha. Discover the vibrant and energetic quality of these freshly harvested tea leaves.
Fresh Shincha, served the most refreshing way possible: in a tall glass of ice.
Cold brew with just ice and clean water to bring out sencha's full lushness, natural sweetness, and umami.