Uchi Home Kit — Refillable Matcha Starter Set

Description

Good matcha, every morning. No learning curve.

Home is the entry to the Uchi system. A stainless steel Base that lives on your counter, and a first Pod of ceremonial grade matcha from Uji, Japan.

40g Pod. Twenty servings. €2.25 per cup. Calm, focused energy, without the coffee crash.

When the Pod is empty, replace it. The Base stays.

Taste profile

Umami

Sweetness

Astringency

Body

Origin

Horii Shichimeien, our producer, is one of the few remaining Uji, Japan, houses that still tends its own garden there.
Kaze no Shiro is a first-flush matcha composed by Horii Shichimeien's tea master.
Rather than a single garden or a single cultivar, it draws first-harvest tencha from Kyoto, Nara and Shiga, weaving three varieties: Okumidori, Yabukita and Sayamakaori.

In Uji, blending is not a shortcut. It is how a house builds a flavour of its own and holds it steady, season after season, beyond any single garden or year. The leaves are shaded for twenty-five days before harvest, drawing depth, sweetness and the vivid green of a true first flush. They are then stone-milled at forty grams an hour.

Okunoyama is the last surviving farm of the seven designated in the Muromachi period as the source of Uji tea — more than six hundred years ago, and in continuous cultivation ever since. The tea house was founded in Uji in 1879.

Video — the stone mill

First harvest.

Preparation

Sift 2g of matcha, two leveled Uchi Spoons, into 40ml of water at 70°C. Whisk until smooth in a W motion. Add 120ml of water or milk.

Read the Uchi Method for a fuller guide to preparation.

The System

Keep the Base. Replace the Pod.

The Base stores and protects your matcha — keep it forever.
When your Pod is empty, order a replacement or subscribe for automatic delivery.

Recyclable

Base
Stainless steel, one rubber seal.

Pod
Aluminium. Recycles endlessly.

Made with
Verity. Aluminium and stainless steel only, never plastic. Member of the American Sustainable Business Network.

Packaging
Greyboard and kraft paper. Insert is foam — the one material we're still working to replace.

Complete the ritual