Superior Ceremonial Blend is Naoki Matcha’s best-selling tea and the one the company suggests for people new to matcha. This listing is the 100 g bag; Naoki also sells 40 g and 50 g sizes, and an organic version.
What Naoki says about it
It is made from shade-grown, first-harvest leaves from Uji, Kyoto. Naoki says the tencha leaf is ground into powder shortly before it leaves Japan for the United States, then sealed in airtight packaging, which limits the time the finished powder spends exposed to air. Naoki positions it as versatile, with low bitterness and some umami, for both straight tea and lattes.
Why a blend works for lattes
A blend is built for consistency, and a latte you make the same way every morning benefits from that more than from peak refinement. First-harvest Uji leaf gives it enough quality to drink straight, while its positioning below Naoki’s premium single-cultivar teas keeps it practical for daily lattes, which need 3–4 g per cup rather than the 2 g of a bowl of thin tea.
Who it suits
It suits someone who drinks matcha both ways, straight on some days and as a latte on others, and wants one bag to cover both. A 100 g bag is about thirty lattes at 3 g, or fifty bowls of thin tea, so it suits daily drinkers; the matcha batch calculator works out how long it lasts.
How it compares
This is the overall pick in our latte matcha guide: more structure than a delicate ceremonial tin, better quality than a culinary grade. If you only ever drink it in lattes, a culinary grade will stretch further.
Details from Naoki Matcha’s published product information. Check the bag for current origin, date and directions.
