Fuji Yama Tea Guide: Mariage Frères' Japanese Green Tea
Fuji Yama is a green tea from Japan, "a precious gift from Japan" in the house's words, and Mariage Frères offers it to enthusiasts as "an excellent initiation to the subtleties of Japanese green tea."
What is Fuji Yama?
Mariage Frères says the tea is grown on the slopes surrounding Mount Fuji, the mountain that gives it its name.
The house gives its own sensory references: freshly picked nashi pear on the nose, then smooth notes of white melon softened with a drop of spring honey in the cup. Those are tasting notes, not ingredients.
How Mariage Frères says to brew Fuji Yama
- 2 grams of tea
- 200 milliliters of water
- 80°C / 176°F
- 4 minutes
The cotton-muslin version uses one sachet per 200 milliliters at the same temperature and steep time.
The water temperature is the detail to get right. Mariage Frères asks for water well below boiling for this tea; for Wedding Impérial (Wedding Impérial tea guide), a black tea, it gives 95°C.
Fuji Yama or Genmaïcha Matcha Émeraude?
Genmaïcha Matcha Émeraude (shop Genmaïcha Matcha Émeraude) is green tea with toasted rice, which Mariage Frères describes as carrying the intensity of matcha. Fuji Yama keeps to the green tea, so it suits a cup of infused leaf on its own; the Genmaïcha suits a cup where toasted rice and matcha are part of the flavor.
Where it sits in the range
Wedding Impérial and Boléro (Boléro tea guide) show what the house does with scented black tea. Nil Rouge (Nil Rouge tea guide) moves into rooibos. Fuji Yama turns to Japanese green tea, brewed cooler, with the leaf at the center.
Shop Mariage Frères Fuji Yama and the rest of the Mariage Frères collection.
