Shincha and sencha might sound confusing. Shincha is new / fresh tea while sencha is steamed tea, so this is 2020 new deep-steamed green tea from Kagoshima.
Unlike freshness and greenish of new tea of regular sencha like Kyoto type, fukamushi sencha has milder and deeper taste and greener color. But both shincha have more freshness, but it won't last long. Tea people say that if you want to enjoy Shincha-like freshness, it's better to use up the tea, at the latest, by the end of rainy season, which is around beginning to mid of July. Otherwise, tea is aged, and deeper flavor comes out, which is also good though.
Anyway, still Shincha season. I make the most of it together with “gyokuro anpan(sweetened beans with gyokuro stuffed bun)”.
