宇治巨椋園
Uji Oguraen Inc.
Uji Oguraen Inc.
About Uji Oguraen
About Uji Oguraen
Uji Oguraen is a company that selects and purchases the highest quality tea leaves from various tea gardens and tea wholesalers on its own as a negociant in the Japanese tea industry, and develops its own high-end bottled tea products with the aim of 'Introducing Japanese tea culture to the world and passing it on to future generations'. We use only the most carefully selected tea leaves from Uji, Kyoto, which have received the Minister's Award for Excellence in tea production, We aim to promote Japanese culture.
Our Commitments
Our Commitments
A bottling tea that condenses six commitments to tea leaves, production, and manufacturing. Please enjoy the supreme taste.
Our Commitments to Tea Leaf Quality
Only tea leaves produced in Kyoto and Uji, the home of tea, are used.
Uji, Kyoto is surrounded by low mountains and hills, and both the topography and soil are suitable for tea cultivation. Since its establishment in 1868, Kitagawa Hanbei Shoten has carefully instructed contracted tea producers in areas of the quality of tea production. These include planting, seasonal management, picking time, cultivation management, and production management among others. In addition, we carefully select only tea leaves suitable for our own use from among approximately 460 tons and several thousand options from the Kyoto tea market. We purchase tea leaves based on sensory evaluation of color, taste and aroma.
We only use 100% handpicked
first flush tea leaves.
first flush tea leaves.
In Japan, tea farmers in Uji handpick theri tea leaves 100%, treating them with greater care compared to other regions where maniches are used for harvesting. They exclusively use the first flush tea leaves, which can only be picked for about 15 days in early May each year.
We only use the best tea leaves.
At competitions our leaves have won multiple awards from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
At competitions our leaves have won multiple awards from the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
We use only high-grade tea leaves that were awarded by Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. Those tea producers are Kikuokaen (awarded 34 times), and Kitagawah Hanbei Shoten (awarded 11 times).
Our Commitments to Manufacturing
Maintaining nutrient-rich, high-quality
soil through skilled management.
soil through skilled management.
Daily weeding and watering, fertilizer (only oil scum, no chemical fertilizers), deep cultivation (work to replace the surface and inside soil) are repeated. maintains a soil with a high We deliberately wait until just before the roots of tea plants, which are extremely delicate plants, rot.
Discerning manufacturing method backed by technology accumulated over many years
Tea picking→Steaming with a steamer→Drying at 170 degrees or more (belt conveyor type drying oven)→Removing foreign substances derived from tea (stems, leaf veins, old leaves, boiled leaves, etc.) In addition to having a good reputation for the required steam flow rate, tea leaves are kept in a cold storage environment at -5 degrees Celsius. In order to prevent dew condensation before use, we will deliver it with a carefully selected manufacturing method that considers the tea leaves as much as possible in each process, such as letting it rest in the basement for a day.
Manufactured in a historical facility with a total cultural value of 2 billion yen
At Kitagawa Hanbei Shoten in Uji, Kyoto, there are 200 stone mills in the head office, the old factory, and the new factory, and more than 10 crushers (15 kilo lots), which cost tens of millions of yen each, and the equipment alone costs 2 billion yen. We manufacture on a site of more than 2000 tsubo. In addition to the site area and equipment value, it is a facility with cultural value in terms of the history of tea, such as a building with historical value from the Edo period and the tencha furnace, which is the only one left in Japan.
香ヶ楼 - KAGAROU
A gorgeous and richly flavored bottling tea named after Kagarou, the god of Japanese mythology who governs the morning star and Venus rising from the east of Kagarou, and the tower (Chateau).
Price: ¥50,000 (incl tax)
• Bottling tea made only with tea leaves carefully selected by a skilled sensory judge who has won the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award 34 times at national, Kansai and Uji fairs, among first-class teas, exceptional color, flavor and taste Please enjoy!
• Manufactured at a 50-year-old Kyoto extraction factory with room temperature pickling extraction (3 hours) and pasteurization (85°C), and a low-temperature extraction method that carefully locks in the flavor at a low temperature for a long time at an organic JA certified factory. I'm here.
• There is no technology to prevent changes in the chlorophyll (green component) of tea, so light-shielding bottles are commonly used.
• As for the flavor, we have succeeded in realizing a flavor that cannot be tasted in bottled tea without destroying the original flavor with special technology.
※This product is sold by invitation only. Please buy it from invited link.
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Company Profile
Name
Uji Ogura-En Inc.
(株式会社宇治巨椋園)
(株式会社宇治巨椋園)
Founded
June, 2022
CEO
Yuji Mazoe
Address
611-0042
OA Building, 51 Horiike, Oguracho, Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture
OA Building, 51 Horiike, Oguracho, Uji City, Kyoto Prefecture
Business
• Bottled Tea Brand Business
• Selling Japanese Tea Leaf Business
General Partnership
Supervised by Hanbei Kitagawa
Founded
1861
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