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 ›
I was thinking at first to not mention this tea on my blog, and let the well sensed tea lovers the good care to rush on this exceptional tea. The age of this green tea, harvest 2007, makes it a… Read More ›
Happy New Year 2019 to you all. I go back few months ago to a tea introduced on Thés du Japon last November, but that remains perfectly seasonal. It is Hoji Oolong from Hon.yama. This is a hoji-cha made from… Read More ›
At the end of the year, I have released on Thés du Japon a nice series of high-end teas. Among them a new “yamacha” of Tosa (Kochi prefecture). This tea (yamacha # 2, Choshunka) is not the same as the… Read More ›
As promised, I continue with Mr. Yoshida’s Sashima teas. This time not senchas but two black teas, harvests of spring and summer, from the phenomenal Izumi cultivar. Izumi is actually nothing new, since this variety was registered in 1960. It… Read More ›
I have already mentioned in my presentation of Sayama’s tea last month my desire, now that Thés du Japon opened a shop in Tokyo, to present the teas of the Kanto region (Tokyo region). Those of Sayama (Saitama prefecture) are… Read More ›
I did a few weeks ago a little article on Sayama, the most famous tea producing region of the Tokyo area, just north of the capital. The occasion was the release on Thés du Japon of four new Sayama teas,… Read More ›
As usual, October is the month of the release of the matcha of the year. As usual, I still propose non-blended matchas made from the tencha (unmilled raw material) by Mr. Tsuji Kiyoharu from Shirakawa area in Uji. This allows… Read More ›
Since the opening of the Thés du Japon store in Tokyo’s Yanaka district last August, it seemed obvious and important to me to do more for the promotion of teas in the Kanto region. Also, I begin in this month… Read More ›
I will introduce two teas from Miyazaki prefecture made from the Yamanami cultivar. It is a rare tea three variety registered in 1965 and developed at the Miyazaki Research Center from seeds from Hubei in China. By the way, another… Read More ›
A short article about a new delicious and so sweet Japanese black tea made from seed grown “zairai” trees, available on Thés du Japon. For several years, I have been offering kama-iri cha and black tea from Ashikita in the… Read More ›
