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 ›
2018 selection
Sashima Sencha, Izumi 2007 (!!)
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 ›
“Hoji Oolong” tea
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 ›
Another “yamacha” from Tosa
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 ›
Black teas from Sashima, Izumi
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 ›
Two senchas from Sashima
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 ›
Four Sayama sencha, four cultivars
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 ›
Gokô cultivar Matcha
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 ›
Yamanami cultivar, kama-iri and sencha
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 ›
Black tea from Ashikita, “zairai”
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 ›
Oku-hikari cultivar sencha from Hoshino
Among the novelties of August, I am very happy to present an non-shaded sencha from the village of Hoshino in Yame. Indeed, in an overwhelming way, Yame sencha are usually strongly steamed and shaded, thus favoring the umami, with in… Read More ›
Sencha from Asamiya, Oku-hikari cultivar
Here is the second sencha from Asamiya (Shiga prefecture) to enter my 2018 selection. In the previous article I mentioned the great Kôshun, a very rare cultivar outside Shizuoka. Today it is another cultivar usually found mainly in Shizuoka, Oku-hikari…. Read More ›
Kôshun cultivar sencha from Asamiya
In 2016 I had the great pleasure of presenting a sencha from Asamiya (in the Shiga prefecture, Asamiya is a production area with ancient history, located just north of the border with Wazuka and Uji-tawara) made with the great cultivar… Read More ›
Gokô cultivar sencha from Wazuka
Each year I propose a non-shaded sencha from Wazuka (Kyoto) by the very talented Mr. Kagoshima. Two years ago in particular, I proposed his Saemidori, really great. But the good reputation of this producer and the overgrown success of the… Read More ›
Sayama-midori & Yabukita cultivars Tamaryokucha
Here are two tamaryokucha from Ureshino by Mr. Ota, a producer with whom I have been working for many years now, and who has the rare peculiarity in this region and with this type of tea of making short steaming,… Read More ›
Japanese Tea Sommelier 