Single origin · First harvest · Product of Japan

AOBAKI

Ceremonial grade AAA matcha from Matsushita Tea Garden in Kakegawa, Shizuoka. Grown, stone-milled, and packed at the farm in Japan. Shipped from Lānaʻi, Hawaiʻi.

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One garden. One harvest.

Everything Aobaki sells comes from a single family farm near Mt. Fuji. We buy the garden’s highest grade in small lots, several times a year, so what reaches you is this season’s tea.

Garden: Matsushita Tea GardenKakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Harvest: First flush onlyIchibancha: the sweetest, most umami-rich picking of the year
Cultivars: Saemidori and SamidoriBoth bred specifically for matcha
Grind: About 9 microns, sifted through a 100-mesh screenSilky, vivid, and foam-friendly
Service: Usucha, koicha, and a latte that keeps its color
Keep it: Sealed, refrigerated, out of the light

One tea. Two sizes.

A new matcha drinker gives a café one cup. If it’s bitter and dull, they decide matcha isn’t for them and warn their friends. Ceremonial Matcha AAA tastes sweet and savory, stays vivid green in milk, and whisks to a smooth foam. It’s the same tea every order, so that first cup can win a regular who brings friends.

1 kg bag

About five hundred traditional servings, or hundreds of lattes. The café size.

1 kg2.2 lb

80 g pouch

About forty bowls of usucha. For home, for gifts, and for the shelf of a shop or café.

80 g2.8 oz

“Among the matcha produced at Matsushita Tea Garden, this is our highest-grade product. Our farm, blessed with a rich natural environment, practices soil cultivation that nurtures the chain of life.”
Matsushita Tea Garden, Kakegawa

For cafés, tea rooms, and shops

One kilogram is roughly 500 traditional servings, or hundreds of lattes. We ship from Hawaiʻi to the mainland by USPS Priority Mail. Wholesale pricing and samples on request.

808-563-5007Lanai City, Hawaiʻi · Hawaiʻi time is 2 to 3 hours behind the West Coast kert@aobaki.comSay who you are and what you pour; we answer personally

Coffee barsMatcha lattes, iced matcha, matcha lemonade. One bag makes hundreds of drinks.
Tea roomsGenuine ceremonial service, usucha or koicha.
RetailersPortion into your own 30 g tins, about 33 to a bag, for a high-margin shelf item. Label each tin "Product of Japan" with your own name and net weight.

Shipped from Lānaʻi

Aobaki began at Rainbow Pharmacy, our independent pharmacy in Lanai City, Hawaiʻi. We are Kert Shuster, Pharm.D., and Kimiko Shuster. Kimiko grew up in Shizuoka, Japan.

For more than five years, our shop has sold matcha from the same farmer, Matsushita Tea Garden in Kakegawa, and we kept giving it to friends.

The farm grows, processes, stone-mills, and packs the tea in Shizuoka. We ship it from Lanai City, on the island of Lānaʻi, home to about three thousand people. We are small enough that the person who answers the phone is the person who tasted the lot.