01 · Sift
Two grams through the mesh
Weigh two grams and push it through a fine sieve straight into a warmed bowl. Skip this and you drink lumps.
宇治2026 first harvest
Stone-milled at dawn,
whisked before noon.
Kumo No. 1 is a first-harvest Uji tencha, shaded twenty-one days and ground on granite at forty turns a minute. Thirty grams, which is about fifteen bowls, and it holds its colour for six weeks.
- Harvest
- May 2026, Uji
- Shade
- 21 days
- Mill
- Granite, 40 rpm
- Water
- 80 °C, 70 ml
How a bowl of No. 1 comes together
Three minutes at the counter. The only thing worth being fussy about is the sieve, because matcha clumps and a clump will not whisk out.
02 · Whisk
Seventy millilitres at 80 °C
Never boiling. Whisk in a brisk W, wrist only, for fifteen seconds.
03 · Rest
Drink it before the foam goes
A good bowl holds its head for about a minute. Sweet grass first, then a short bitter finish that clears.