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 ›
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Fuji-kaori Hôji-cha
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 ›
Hôji-cha & genmaicha
Two teas produced by reprocessing finished teas. The hôji-cha 焙じ茶 is a very common Japanese tea, reasonably priced, often served free in restaurants, a tea that could be called popular. But its quality depends on the raw material used, and… Read More ›
Fine kuki-cha and home-made hôji-cha
Impossible for me not to link up together kuki-cha and hoji-cha. The kuki-cha is what is sometimes called a ” de-mono ”, a kind tea recycling, since it’s made from stems sorted from a Japanese green tea raw material (called… Read More ›
Six homemade hôji-chas
When you have a hôroku and a good selection of senchas in the house, you can have a lot of fun! You can make top-flight hôji-chas out of all your senchas in only a few minutes. It also fills your… Read More ›
