Our story
A Libyan and Egyptian house, built around one bowl of matcha.
Club Matcha was founded in 2025 by two families — one Libyan, one Egyptian — raised on long afternoons where tea was never rushed and never served carelessly. North African hospitality taught us that the pour is the point: the glass is polished, the tray is set, and the people at the table are given time. We took that instinct to Japan, found a single estate in Uji willing to work in small runs, and built a brand around the discipline of doing one thing exceptionally.
Sourcing
Four steps, none of them hurried.
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Uji, Japan
Our leaf comes from a single family estate in Uji — the region that has grown tea for the Japanese court for eight centuries. One origin, never blended.
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Shade-grown 21 days
Canopies go up three weeks before harvest. The plant answers with chlorophyll and L-theanine — the deep green colour and the round, sweet finish.
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Stone-milled slowly
Granite wheels turn at a pace that yields roughly forty grams an hour, cool enough that the aroma survives the milling.
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Sealed the same week
Nitrogen-flushed and pressed into pinstripe tins within days of milling, then shipped in small, dated runs.
The clubhouse feeling
Old money is quiet. So is good matcha.
We drew the brand from the parts of tennis that have nothing to do with the scoreboard: cream linen, clipped hedges, the pause between sets, a drink handed over without a word. Navy, green and white pinstripes. A crossed-whisk crest. Nothing shouted, nothing fluorescent, no wellness slogans on the tin. Luxury here is restraint — the confidence to leave the label small.
It is a members' feeling without a membership: whisk it at seven in the morning in your own kitchen and the ritual still holds.
Owned & operated
Libyan and Egyptian owned, independently run.
Club Matcha is family-owned by Libyan and Egyptian founders. There is no outside investor deciding how fast we grow, which is why harvests are released in limited, dated runs and why every order is packed by the people whose name is on the tin.