His absence was long. Indeed, this beautiful Yume-wakaba cultivar sencha, manual harvest and standard steaming, has been present in my selection for several years. Unfortunately, last year, a major hailstorm shortly before the harvest destroyed the young leaves of this… Read More ›
Comparing two different teas, different regions, different producers, made from the same cultivar is always very interesting. This is all the more so for the informed connoisseur when it is a very rare tea tree variety like Musashi-kaori. I propose… 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 ›
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 ›
After the excellent Kôshun from Ashikita, here’s again a black tea, this time coming from the prefecture of Saitama, from Iruma city to be more precise. Certain may have guessed, it is a tea by Hiruma Yoshiaki. Last year, I… Read More ›
Readers of Thés du Japon newsletter already know the story of this tea, but I’ll repeat it here. Last summer, I participated as a judge at the second edition of a competition, involving over 300 Japanese teas. There are sub-categories… Read More ›
That’s a long time since I had proposed on Thés du Japon a tea by Mr. Hiruma. My recent renewed interest in Japanese black tea has naturally led my eyes to this producer that I always liked black teas. “Sayama… Read More ›
A kama-iri cha from Saitama by Hiruma Yoshiaki. Those who know this producer are well aware that it is not a classical kama-iri cha like those we find in Kyûshû. There is nothing very original about the cultivar: Yabukita…. Read More ›
I think there is no longer any need to introduce Hiruma Yoshiaki, Saitama Prefecture tea producer. For those who do not yet know him, there is an interview of him on this blog. This year, in addition to two kama-iri… Read More ›
