While I mentioned the Sayama-kaori cultivar in detail a few weeks ago, I have just put on sale two sencha from Iruma (the city of Iruma is the most important tea production area of Sayama tea) both made in from cultivars… Read More ›
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Sayama-kaori in four examples
On the occasion of the release of the Sayama-kaori sencha from Dôsenbô, I will write a little about this cultivar here. This is one of the few cultivars to have spread well throughout Japan from the 1970s onwards. It still… Read More ›
2021 Shincha VII
The second harvests are already finished in some producing regions, so that still to evoke in this period as “shincha” the first harvests in 2021 can seem odd. However, in the mountain areas in Shizuoka for example, it has not… Read More ›
Sashima black tea, 2nd flush Sayama kaori
Following my last article about the amazing black tea from Kameyama Benihomare cultivar, I continue on my way with this other black tea, from Sashima this time, with the Sayama-kaori cultivar, a summer harvest. Sashima is a small producing region… 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 ›
The tea from Sayama
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 ›
Sencha from Tenryû, Sayama-kaori cultivar
While the 2018 vintages of Japanese teas are arriving progressivly on Thés du Japon, here is a completely new tea, I never presented before. It is a sencha from Tenryû, one of the famous Shizuoka mountain tea producing areas with… Read More ›
Three tamaryokucha from Ureshino
Each new tea season brings a lot of new, disappointments, surprises, and sometimes there are very special satisfactions. In this way, last week I introduced Yamakai cultivar sencha from Ôma by Mr. Nakamura, which I could have in exclusivity for… Read More ›
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