Pod

€45 EUR

From €2.25 / cup

40g ceremonial grade matcha refill.

Umami-rich, naturally sweet, vivid green

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Description

Your next Pod.

The matcha refill for existing Base owners. If you are new to Uchi, start with Home.

Your next Pod. Forty grams of ceremonial grade matcha from Uji, Japan. Remove the empty Pod from your Base. Drop a new one in. That is the Uchi system.

40g Pod. Twenty servings. €2.25 per cup. About 2 - 4 weeks of morning rituals.

Same Base. Fresh Pod.


Taste profile
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

Pod
Aluminium. Recycles endlessly, with packaging waste.

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.

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