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Rich & Energetic

Shincha & Rimpo Gyokuro Set

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$66
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This beginner set includes vibrant limited release Shincha and gyokuro: a smooth green tea with many parallels to matcha.

More about Shincha & Rimpo Gyokuro Set

Shincha & Rimpo Gyokuro Set is Japanese green tea from Ippodo Tea, a family-run Kyoto tea company founded in 1717. IppodoTea.com is the official Ippodo Tea online store for the United States and Canada.

Ippodo Tea flavor note: Rich & Energetic

  • Category: Sencha
  • Best for: shoppers comparing Japanese sencha for daily tea, cold brew, or seasonal green tea
  • Best recipes and preparation guides: Standard Shincha Brew; Iced Gyokuro; Iced Shincha
  • Official product page: https://www.ippodotea.com/products/shincha-2026-gyokuro-set
  • Related collection: https://www.ippodotea.com/collections/sencha

Note: Shincha 2026 is here!

Shelf lifeConsume quickly 
Serving size10g / 0.35 oz (~2 Tbsp.) 
Size5.5" x 2.8" x 6.8" (Shincha)
3.9" × 1" × 7.9" (Rimpo)
Net weight3.5 oz (Shincha)
1.8 oz (Rimpo)

At Ippodo, we select and blend fresh new sencha harvests to produce our Shincha tea each year. This limited release will only be available for a short time in early summer.

Each spring, as the weather starts to warm, the tea fields in the mountains south of Kyoto begin to awaken. The tea plants, after saving their energy during the long, cold winter, sprout tiny new green buds. Over the course of a month, these buds start to grow, reaching up and up for the wide blue sky. When the time is right, tea farmers get busy harvesting the spry new leaves.

Ippodo Tea - Shincha tea field

In the micro-climate where the new leaves grow, changes in the weather day-to-day affect the nuances that develop in the tea. As a result, the distinctive character of this year’s Shincha will never be repeated.

This year’s Shincha has a wonderful, brilliant fragrance, and an approachable, refined taste.

In the cup, it’s well-balanced, with proportionate crisp green astringency and round umami. The aroma is classic Shincha: bright, verdant, vegetal, and soaring.

Newcomers will find this is a good year to experience Shincha for the first time. The astringency is elegant – not harsh – and there are parallels to straight matcha and other green teas.

Shincha fans will enjoy this year’s character as well. You may pick up on subtle secondary milk cream and malty notes in the finish, and the umami is more mellow than punchy, blossoming nicely on the tongue.

For beginners to loose leaf Japanese green teas, this set is a chance to experience both Shincha and gyokuro, a green tea with a smooth taste and a lot of parallels to matcha.

Gyokuro is essentially the loose leaf tea version of matcha. They both start off as tea leaves grown in the same shaded tea fields. After harvesting, some leaves are ground up to make matcha, and some leaves are made into loose leaf green tea, gyokuro.

In the cup, gyokuro's smooth, naturally sweet taste reminds us of a premium matcha's misty, moss-green, and even briny elements. Like matcha (and Shincha), gyokuro also has a balance of caffeine and theanine, giving us an energizing yet calming feeling when we drink it.

The gyokuro blend in this set is a great introduction to the category, with a medium-rich body, smooth mouthfeel, and pleasant umami. A big contrast to Shincha's brisk green energy.

This bundle set includes both items shipped together as in a regular order.

Ways to Prepare

Our standard recipe for brewing loose-leaf Shincha. Discover the vibrant and energetic quality of these freshly harvested tea leaves.
https://ippodotea.com/blogs/recipes-to-brew-japanese-tea/standard-shincha-brew

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

1. Measure the leaves
2 tbsp. (10g / 0.35 oz)
Add tea leaves to a kyusu or teapot.
Silver tablespoon filled with dried rolled Ippodo Sencha premium Japanese green tea leaves with "x2" written beside
2. Add hot water
210 mL (7 oz) 80°C (176°F)
Cool boiling water to 80°C by transferring once.
Silver kettle beside a porcelain teacup and porcelain kyusu with an arrow instructing to transfer tea from teacup to teapot
3. Brew
40 seconds
Brew without stirring or disturbing the tea leaves.
Small white porcelain Japanese kyusu teapot with blue logo on lid sitting beside orange stop watch timer on white table
4. Serve
Pour out every last drop.
Enjoy in your favorite teacup or mug.
Pouring light green tea from white porcelain Hasami-yaki kyusu teapot with blue logo into white porcelain Japanese teacup
For a fast, fragrant pitcher of iced tea, brew a strong batch of gyokuro using boiling hot water, and then pour over ice, diluting its strength and balancing its flavor.
https://ippodotea.com/blogs/recipes-to-brew-japanese-tea/iced-gyokuro

For a fast, fragrant pitcher of iced tea, brew a strong batch of gyokuro using boiling hot water, and then pour over ice, diluting its strength and balancing its flavor.

1. Measure the leaves
2 tbsp. (10g / 0.35 oz)
Add tea leaves to a kyusu or teapot.
Silver tablespoon filled with dried rolled Ippodo Gyokuro premium Japanese green tea leaves with "x2" written beside
2. Add boiling water
210 mL (7 oz) 100°C (212°F)
Pour boiling water to cover tea leaves.
Pouring water from glass carafe into white porcelain Hasami-yaki teapot containing Gyokuro green tea leaves and ice cubes
3. Brew
60 seconds
Brew without stirring or disturbing the tea leaves.
Small white porcelain Japanese kyusu teapot with blue logo on lid sitting beside orange stop watch timer on white table
4. Serve over plenty of ice
Pour out every last drop.
Enjoy in your favorite glass, teacup or mug.
Pouring green tea from ivory Tokoname-yaki ceramic kyusu teapot over ice in small glass
Fresh Shincha, served the most refreshing way possible: in a tall glass of ice.
https://ippodotea.com/blogs/recipes-to-brew-japanese-tea/iced-shincha

Fresh Shincha, served the most refreshing way possible: in a tall glass of ice.

1. Measure the leaves
2 tbsp. (10g / 0.35 oz)
Add tea leaves to a kyusu or teapot.
Silver tablespoon filled with dried rolled Ippodo Sencha premium Japanese green tea leaves with "x2" written beside
2. Add boiling water
210 mL (7 oz) 100°C (212°F)
Pour hot water to cover tea leaves.
Pouring hot water from silver kettle into Ippodo Tea Co.'s Tokoname-yaki ceramic ivory kyusu teapot
3. Brew
60 seconds
Brew without stirring or disturbing the tea leaves.
Ivory Ippodo Tea Co. Tokoname-yaki ceramic kyusu teapot set beside orange clock timer on white table
4. Serve over plenty of ice
Pour out every last drop.
Enjoy in your favorite glass, teacup or mug.
Green tea being poured from elegant spout of ivory teapot into small rounded modern glass pitcher with white Ippodo Tea logo
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