Japanese green tea

Japanese expertise revisited by the Maison

The Japanese green teaowes its character to remarkable precision. After harvesting, the tea leavesare quickly exposed to steam to stop their oxidation and preserve what makes their personality so unique: a vibrant green color, great freshness, marine accents, and a touch of umami.

Betjeman & Barton selects different expressions of this expertise to offer everyone a gateway into this rich universe:

• The Japanese Senchais the great classic. Fresh and herbaceous, it naturally accompanies the morning or early afternoon. The Sencha Natural Leafdelivers a clear, direct, and elegant expression of it.
• The Sencha Kagoshimareveals a more intense liquor, born in the south of Japan, with a greener and deeper presence.
• The Minami Kyushu 1st Flush 2025carries the brilliance of a first harvest: spring-like, delicate, and precious.
• The Gyokuro, considered the champagne of teas, is shade-grown before harvest. It develops a sweet, silky, and deep infusion, carried by a delicate umami. A great, rare, and enveloping tea for tasting.
• The Kagoshima Matcha, ground into a fine powder, offers a creamy texture and a very unique chlorophyll intensity.
• The Genmaichacombines green tea with roasted rice for a round liquor with notes of toasted hazelnuts.
• The Organic Hojicha, a roasted green tea, provides an amber, sweet, and woody infusion that is naturally lower in caffeine.

This range allows you to explore the Japanese universe in all its diversity, from everyday tea to great tasting crus.

Tasting Japanese green tea the French way

Preparing a Japanese green tea

• means first choosing softness. The water must be of high quality: low mineral content and free of limescale or chlorine. If it is too hot, it agitates the leaf and creates bitterness. A precise temperature, on the contrary, allows the finesse, clarity, and length on the palate to emerge.For a Sencha, count on water around 70 to 75°C and an infusion time of about 1 minute 30 to 2 minutes. This preparation is perfect for the Sencha Natural Leaf, the Sencha Kagoshima, or a more delicate harvest, like the Minami Kyushu 1st Flush 2025
• .For a Gyokuro
• , prefer warmer water, around 60°C, and careful infusion. The tea then reveals all its sweetness, silky texture, and umami depth.For a Matcha

, the water must be hot but not boiling, around 75 to 80°C. The powder is whisked directly in a bowl, using a bamboo whisk, until a fine foam is obtained.

Sencha or matcha, what is the difference?The Senchais a leaf tea that is infused like a classic tea. The Matcha, meanwhile, is a green tea powder

that you whisk directly into water. You therefore consume the whole leaf, which gives an intense, savory texture that is highly concentrated in caffeine and antioxidants.One easily invites itself into daily life, the other establishes a more marked ritual. Two ways to discover Japan, depending on your mood, taste, and the moment. To accompany these moments of tasting, Betjeman & Barton also offers chosen accessories to perfect the gesture: Japanese cast iron teapots, tea tins, matcha bowl(chawan), or bamboo whisk

(chasen). Useful objects, of course, but also discreet tasting companions.

Exceptional Japanese green teas signed by Betjeman & Barton

• How to choose a good Japanese green tea? It all begins with the experience you wish to offer your cup.For a fresh, vegetal, and everyday liquor: the Sencha Natural Leaf
• .For a more intense expression of Japanese sencha: the Sencha Kagoshima
• .For a vibrant and precious first harvest: the Minami Kyushu 1st Flush 2025
• .For an exceptional, sweet, and umami tasting: the Gyokuro
• .For a creamy and intense bowl: the Kagoshima Matcha
• .For a round, roasted, and accessible infusion: the Genmaicha
• .For a sweet, woody, and light tasting: the Organic Hojicha

.The Maison also signs scented teasbased on Japanese green tea. The Réveil Biocombines an organic sencha

with ginger, lemongrass, mate, and orange peel. A vibrant and tonic infusion designed to start the day with energy.Thus takes shape a range that makes you want to explore Japanese green teas

, from the authenticity of the great crus to the scented creations where Betjeman & Barton reveals its free and singular spirit.

Betjeman & Barton, the expert in Japanese green tea in FranceFor more than a century, Betjeman & Barton has woven a relationship with the teas of the worldmade of passion, curiosity, and high standards. Japanoccupies a special place there, as a land of rare and precious tea

, of which only a small portion, less than 5%, crosses its borders. Each selection therefore becomes a privilege, but also a responsibility.The Maison approaches these teas with the same care as its most iconic great crus, guided by its founding values: excellence in the choice of origins, expertisein the art of selecting and preparing, boldness in scented creations, and that timeless chic that makes tea as much a pleasure as an art of living

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