Really unrivaled matcha must have five key attributes

Really unrivaled matcha must have five key attributes

• brilliant shading power

• superior umami

• excellent terroir (which by definition implies an uncommon tea)

• dreamy frothability, and

• a long, smooth completion that contains crema to the absolute last drop.

The blend of those five attributes is an uncommon event; most matcha has a dull shading, sharpness rather than umami, is mass-created, structures feeble crema, in the event that it structures it by any means, and has practically zero completion.