“Ceremonial grade”
is not a Japanese standard.
We choose by taste, not by label. We will select the matcha that fits your menu, and you will taste them in your own café before deciding.
Served at partner cafés in Los Angeles and Kyoto★★★★★5.0 from verified buyersTaste before you commit. The tea is our gift.
Tell us the flavors you like and the drinks you serve. We will select the matcha to match. The tea is our gift.
- Name your flavorsToday · On the next page. About two minutes.
- We select and shipFrom October 30 · Chosen to suit your answers, and sent from Kyoto with tracking.
- Taste in your own caféAbout a week after dispatch · Your team makes its usual drinks with each tea.
In the box: each tea with its tasting notes, a tasting sheet for comparing them side by side, and our 2026 Catalogue.
A matcha that sets your menu apart. That is our promise.
Taste it in your own café first. If it does not earn a place on your menu, you pay nothing more.
Which flavor is yours?
Let us find your café’s own.
Choose one. Each flavor shows the matcha that carry it, based on our tasting notes. On the next page, tell us your flavors and we will match your kit to them.
Savory, like dashi, with a light green aroma of aonori.
What our partners say.
Cafés in Los Angeles, Kyoto, and beyond serve NAKAI and keep reordering. Here is what they and their customers say, unedited.
Ceremony is a practice. Not a label.
“Ceremonial grade” appears on premium matcha around the world. In Japan, no standard defines it.
Our standard is the ceremony itself.
Our co-founder and chief quality officer, Nagasawa Akira, practices the tea ceremony and evaluates every lot in one. A lot that falls short does not ship.
The difference begins before the tea is made.
Great tea cannot be made from ordinary leaf.
Before we blend, roast, or mill anything, we taste lot by lot across Japan’s finest gardens and keep only the leaf that belongs in NAKAI.
Standards you can serve. Six we keep for every partner.
We hold capital partnerships with some of Japan’s finest tea gardens, so quality is never cut to protect a margin.
We buy raw leaf, lot by lot, and name its region on every tea. Never finished powder.
Our own team tastes and approves every lot, then evaluates it in ceremony before it becomes NAKAI.
We blend and roast, then mill slowly on granite to keep the heat low and protect aroma and color.
A certificate of analysis comes with every lot, and organic certificates with every organic tea. See the documents.
Grade guidance and recipe support from people who practice the tea ceremony.
From the garden to your guest.
Whisked by hand, the way the ceremony teaches.
Thirteen teas, named in full. Origin and grade on every tea.
Your team can tell every guest what is in the cup. Your kit comes from the five matcha below. Hojicha powders and teabags can be added to any order. Organic teas are marked.
Matcha
抹茶Your kit is selected from theseChapter 01 · Five teasShade-grown, stone-milled, first flush. Umami and deep sweetness with a clean, gentle bitterness. Caffeine: high, about 60–70 mg per 2 g.
Hojicha powder
焙じ茶Chapter 02 · Five teasStems and veins from tencha, roasted with select sencha at about 200°C. Toasty, nutty, and low in astringency, made for lattes and café menus. Caffeine: low, about 20–30 mg per 2 g.
Teabags
茶包Chapter 03 · Three teasTwo hojicha and our Tamba black bean tea. Easy to serve from afternoon into evening.
Three grades, openly disclosed.
For koicha, shots, and drinking straight.
For usucha, americanos, and premium lattes.
For milk-based drinks.
Grade is a matter of use as much as quality. Whatever the grade, every lot is evaluated in an actual tea ceremony before it ships.
When a tea belongs on your menu.
TAMBAKUROMAME also comes in packs of 30.
Write to wholesale@nakaiinfo.com. We will also confirm availability for teas marked New.
Online by card, with SAMPLE-CREDIT at checkout. Large orders by email, paid by invoice through bank transfer or Wise.
Please write before requesting a kit. Samples are at our expense, and grades are tailored to your program.
Stone-milled from first-flush leaf. The whole leaf, in the cup.
With matcha, you drink the whole leaf.
With other teas, the leaves are steeped and set aside. With matcha, you drink the leaf itself, so whatever touched it in the field ends up in the cup.
That is why we document every organic lot. Each organic tea is marked in the collection above.
Grown and made in Japan. Here is the proof.
No leaf from outside Japan, ever. Our teas are finished at Organic JAS certified facilities in Uji and Miyazaki. Our certificates name every region: Uji, Kirishima, Miyazaki, Oita, Shizuoka, Yame, Hyogo, Shiga, and Mie.
Ask for the file. Reply with a tea code, and we send that lot’s documents before you order. wholesale@nakaiinfo.com
Three steps to your menu. About two minutes today.
No contract, no obligation. You taste first, in your own café.
Choose your flavors and drinks, add your business details, and pay $24 for shipping from Kyoto.
We select the matcha for your answers and ship from Kyoto with tracking. Expect your kit in about a week.
SAMPLE-CREDIT takes $24 off your first wholesale order of $300 or more. If no tea suits your menu, there is nothing more to do.
Beyond the first order.
From a first sample to a steady supply, our team works alongside yours.
Direct from our partner gardens, with guidance on the right grade for every drink.
Your brand, our craft. Sourcing, blending, quality control, and production, end to end.
Our team practices the tea ceremony and helps shape your menu at every step.
From intimate tea gatherings to large cultural events, designed with you.
With some partners, we go further and create an original tea together. These collaborations are by invitation, and each begins with a conversation.
Before we begin.
What does the $24 cover?
When will our kit arrive?
How do you choose our teas?
What is in the box?
How does the credit work?
What if none of the teas suit our menu?
Who may request a kit?
Where do you ship?
Is there a contract or a minimum afterward?
Can we speak with someone first?
Shall we begin with a cup? Taste first, then decide.
We would be glad to prepare your kit. The tea is our gift, and the $24 for shipping is credited toward your first wholesale order of $300 or more, placed within 90 days.
