Bourbon Mini Lumonde Crepe Cookies Uji Matcha

Most matcha confectionery uses matcha as it comes. Bourbon roasts it first.

Mini Lumonde Uji Matcha is built on a roasted Uji matcha cream, and roasting does to green tea roughly what it does to coffee — it trades some of the raw vegetal sharpness for depth, drawing out a toasted, nutty aroma that ordinary matcha does not have.

Japan has a separate word for roasted green tea, hōjicha, and treats it as its own category rather than a variation; the technique is old and well understood here.

What Bourbon has done is apply it to a high-grade matcha rather than to the coarse leaves hōjicha usually starts from, which produces something in between: the body and colour of matcha, the fragrance of something toasted.

That choice suits the format.

The Mini Lumonde crepe cookie is already kōbashii — the Japanese word for the toasted, nutty aroma of things browned by heat — and the roasted matcha meets it on the same ground instead of sitting on top as a bitter green layer.

Where a standard matcha cream would fight the biscuit, this one joins it.

Uji, just south of Kyoto, has been the benchmark tea region in Japan since the Muromachi period, and the name on a package carries the same weight here that a named French wine region does.

Bourbon is not using it casually.

The sticks are the Mini Lumonde size, which is roughly two-thirds the weight of a full-size Lumonde — single-bite rather than two-bite, and tightly rolled so the crepe layers collapse all at once.

Each is wrapped individually inside a 121 g bag, which makes this the cupboard-at-home format rather than a gift.

New to the Lumonde range in January 2026, and the most distinctive of Bourbon’s matcha products for the roasting alone.

About this item
Item Name : Mini Lumonde Uji Matcha
Brand : Bourbon
Item Form : Cookie
Number of Items : 121g (Pack of 1)