To my tamaryokucha from Sonogi (Nagasaki prefecture) Asatsuyu cultivar, this month was added another tamaryokucha from the same producer, made with the tea tree variety Samidori. This is not Saemidori, but Samidori, a cultivar familiar to Uji matcha and gyokuro… Read More ›
Autumn was particularly rich in events and shows so it was difficult for me to feed my blog as I should have. It was difficult to miss the very rare matcha made from the Hôshun and Kyôken-283 cultivar, but there… Read More ›
With the arrival of the new matcha, I’m finding myself each year, as for the gyokuro, to repeat the same thing. In general, and almost as a rule in Uji (Kyoto), we never get release new matcha (tencha) in the… Read More ›
Here’s two sencha already online for some time, two sencha that may seem quite similar but yet quite different. These are two Yabukita from Umegashima (one of the area of the so-called Hon.yama tea growing region, north of Shizuoka, along… Read More ›
Do I still have to repeat these two essential things about gyokuro? 1- We don’t drink gyokuro (no more than matcha) in spring as shincha (new tea); it is expected that September or October tea has reached a sufficient level… Read More ›
I come back to this very interesting variety Yamanami. This very rare cultivar was developed at the Miyazaki Research Center, and registered in 1965. With the southern prefecture of Miyazaki comes in mind the kama-iri cha, and indeed, Yamanami is… Read More ›
This is the third year that I propose this “zairai” tea from Umegashima, which has evolved each time to get closer to a certain “ideal”, or simply say a real good sencha. Let us first recall what the term “zairai-shu”… Read More ›
My enthusiasm growing for this super minor category of Japanese tea that is the black teas, I will present my 2019 first flush selection after having once again presented the history of this unknwon tea category. Indeed, Japanese black teas,… Read More ›
As announced, I propose a very rich range of novelties for the month of July. First a very nice selection of first flush Japanese black tea on which I will return very soon, but also a large number of green… Read More ›
As announced previously, here is the Yamakai cultivar sencha from Wazuka. It is first of all a true non-shaded sencha, which is not so common with the “Uji sencha” mostly shaded (I remind you that in Kyoto, we will speak… Read More ›
It is now a strange habit, but this year nothing happens as usual with the spring harvests. First planned very hastily, return to the cold, and finally harvest in a normal timing, or even a little late. In a very… Read More ›
The hand-picked Saemidori from Kirishima (Kagoshima prefecture) is a classic of my selection, present since the beginning of Thés du Japon. However, this year, to my great joy, it is a little different: it is now a futsumushi, a standard… Read More ›
The arrival of the shincha this year is about a week late compared to 2018, which finally puts the 2019 harvest in the average, 2018 having been super hasty. Thus, it is only now that we enter the important phase… Read More ›
With the 2019 shincha, I start my 9th new harvest season with Thés du Japon. But it is also this year my first shincha season at the Yanaka shop! For a number of years, it’s with Mariko’s very early cultivar,… Read More ›
No doubt that the 2018-2019 season was of great density for me and for Thés du Japon. First of all, there was great satisfaction both in terms of teas and teapots sourcing, and it was also a very eventful season…. Read More ›
