香 KOH
Bold body and a rich aroma, finished to be enjoyed black. The aroma rises the moment you add hot water, and the finish lingers.
- Type
- Unsweetened (premium black)
- Contents
- 1.2 g × 20 sticks
HAND-DRIP SOMMELIER™
Brewed beforeyou pour.
RNZ.COFFEE is a Japanese coffee brand devoted to extraction. Rather than beans or origin, we design how the aroma is drawn out.
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Flash high-temperature extraction
We capture the aroma before it escapes.
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Hand-Drip Sommelier™
The craft of each hand-poured cup, built into production.
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A vanishing aftertaste
One sip of water and the taste clears away.
Extraction
How coffee tastes
depends on how it is brewed.
We sealed that process
into a single stick.
The same beans can smell completely different depending on water temperature and how you pour. RNZ.COFFEE moves the step that makes this difference into production.
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Flash high-temperature extraction
Heat is applied quickly and all at once, so the aroma is captured before it escapes. It is our own method for keeping the natural aroma of the beans in the powder.
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Hand-Drip Sommelier™
A way of designing the water temperature and the pour for every cup. Translated into production, it brings back the same taste with nothing more than hot water.
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A vanishing aftertaste
Take a sip of water after drinking, and the taste clears away without lingering. It stays out of the way after a meal or before the next course.
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Designed for Japan
The blend and the amount per stick are adjusted to Japanese tastes. We use 100% Robusta, a bean suited to instant coffee, for its bold body. It is not an existing overseas product imported as is.
Hand-Drip Sommelier™
Not the beans.
Not the roast.
In the end, it comes
down to extraction.
The extraction behind RNZ.COFFEE is a method prized by connoisseurs during Japan's bubble era, when simply drinking a truly good cup of coffee was a mark of status. At the time, it was said that no more than five people in all of Japan truly understood and practiced it. Our founder, Yasuna Yokoyama, was the youngest of them. She learned it in her early twenties and has kept refining it for more than 30 years, as times have changed.
Yasuna YokoyamaFounder / Hand-Drip Sommelier™
Products
Two stick coffees
Individually wrapped sticks. No equipment or preparation needed.
輪 RIN
The body stays, softened with a gentle sweetness. A cup for those who find black coffee too bitter.
- Type
- Lightly sweetened
- Contents
- 2.0 g × 18 sticks
Scenes
Where it fits
Each stick is individually wrapped, so serving takes no effort.
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Hotel rooms and lounges
Serve an aroma close to freshly brewed in guest rooms, without any equipment.
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After a restaurant meal
With no lingering aftertaste, it never gets in the way of dessert or wine.
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Corporate gifts
A set of both makes a gift that suits any recipient.
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Premium retail
Suited to shelves where the price and the quality can be explained.
Experience
Extraction, as an experience.
A 45-minute coffee experience in Sangenjaya, where a Hand-Drip Sommelier™ brews right in front of you.
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10min
Brewing up close
Watch a Hand-Drip Sommelier™ brew, up close.
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15min
Tasting
Notice how the taste changes as it cools, and after a sip of water.
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10min
Finding what you like
Together, and without jargon, we find the taste that feels right to you.
45 minutes · 6,000 yen per person (tax incl.) · Sangenjaya
45 min · 6,000 yen per person (tax incl.) · Sangenjaya
About the experienceCompany
Company
- Brand
- RNZ.COFFEE (Retronasal Coffee)
- Location
- Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo
- Business
- Planning, import and wholesale of coffee / Coffee experiences
- Production
- Developed together with Tourane Roastery (NPI International Company Limited) in Da Nang, Vietnam. It combines equipment recognized at international competitions with RNZ.COFFEE's extraction design.
- Distribution
- Exclusive distribution in Japan