Matcha Ukitsu is a proprietary blend produced by our friend Hisaki Horii, an 8th-generation tea maker and current CEO of his family’s tea business, Hekisuien—a prestigious Kyoto-based tea company established in 1867. Hekisuien focuses on traditional and ultra-premium gyokuro and matcha.

They use blending techniques that combine different cultivars and vintages to shape a unique taste and quality unlike other matcha and gyokuro producers. Hekisuien is not strictly focused on single-cultivar or single-origin selections, but instead on the uniqueness created by aging and blending vintages of different cultivars from various producers and regions in Uji and Kyoto.

The Matcha Ukitsu blend represents the classic essence and vibrancy of the Kyoto matcha terroirs. Its complexity is derived from aged and blended cultivars. The tencha batches selected for Matcha Ukitsu are particularly strong with core characteristics of Asahi aroma, while the flavor and density are very rich, drawing from the characteristics of Kyotanabe-grown batches.