Lauded Japanese tea purveyor Ippodo describes shincha, which it stocks for about three weeks every spring ($48/255g), as a “limited season” tea with a “youthful fragrance” that’s “made using only the ...

Shincha is an important time of the year for green tea purveyors. The word literally means ‘new tea’, and it refers to the first harvest of green tea leaves of the year, which occurs in springtime.

This year, we have received "Hashiri Shincha Asatsuyu," a new tea from a producer in Kagoshima. The young buds are hand-picked before the 88th day after harvest. This tea has a lush, strong fragrance ...

With flavours of rare Korean oolong, freshly harvested Shincha leaves from Japan, and even Chinese herbal cough syrup, a Vancouver-based ice cream maker is creating tea-based ice creams that offer ...