The 2021 vintages continue to arrive, faster and faster, so dealing with everything, even briefly, on this blog is not that simple … but let’s go! Sencha from Fujieda, cultivar Fuji-kaori Rarer than Sôfû, this other inzatsu type cultivar that… Read More ›
I had promised to do the review of all the 2021 shincha by adopting a short and simple format, but the faster arrival of new teas ultimately still delayed my good initiative. Update on the many new items. Sencha from… 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 ›
Here is one of the nicest tea of this season 2017, one of my favorites, and this is still an inzatsu type cultivar. This Fuji-kaori cultivar sencha from Fujieda is clearly far superior to its 2016 vintage. Mr. Yamamoto is… Read More ›
No, I havn’t added to Thés du Japon such a dream hôji-cha, but only made it myself with the kama-iri cha from Fujieda, Fuji-kaori cultivar. Indeed, hôji-cha, a too much underestimated type of tea, can give very varied aromas when… Read More ›
I already presented a few months ago “the history” of this unusual cultivar on the occasion of the launching of the Fuji-kaori cultivar kama-iri cha from Fujieda. It is an inzatsu-type cultivar, a cross between Shizu-inzatsu 131 (♀) and Yabukita… Read More ›
For August, I just added a few selection of new kama-iri cha, a type of tea that seems to me to fit perfectly in the summer, and whose perfumes were able to get matured since in the spring. Besides the… Read More ›
I already offer on Thés du Japon a selection of teas from Ureshino by Mr. Ôta, tamaryokucha and kama-iri cha. Here are two black teas that seemed to me, each for different reasons very interesting. Japanese black tea is a… Read More ›
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