YMY 1690 Ginger Green
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Yamamotoyama 1690 Ginger Green

Green tea is produced by steaming fresh-picked leaves before heat- drying. It has a more delicate taste and is pale green to golden in color. Our Ginger Green tea blends traditional Japanese green tea with the spicy tang of ginger. The tightly rolled green tea leaves are combined with the finest ginger.

The root of the ginger plant has been used in Asian cooking for thousands of years, as it has a clean, fresh, spicy flavor that blends well with many ingredients. Ginger is also very soothing to the stomach and can aid in digestion.

Ginger is one of the world's oldest and most popular spices. Cultivated in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia for over 3,000 years, ginger was one of the first spices to reach the Mediterranean. By the ninth century ginger was so popular in Europe that it was placed on the table, just as salt and pepper are today. Ginger has a warm, woody aroma and a flavor with a slight bite, and a sweet, rich aftertaste.

In 1690, Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa Shogunate, the Manchus had repelled the Mongols, Louis XIV ruled in splendor from his new palace in Versailles, Czar Peter had just attained the throne and Johann Sebastian Bach was five years old. And that same year in Japan, the Yamamoto family began producing premium teas, a tradition that continues to this day. More than three centuries of experience go into the selection and processing of Yamamotoyama Teas, among the finest in the world.