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 ›
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Yamakai cultivar sencha from Tenryû
After Sayama-kaori cultivar from Tatsukawa in Tenryû (Shizuoka pref.), here is a Yamakai made by the same producer. The attentive reader knows how much I appreciate this varietal from the series # 7000, cultivars developed during the 60’s from Yabukita… 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 ›
Sencha from Tenryû and tea cultivars
I have just put on line three teas from the Tatsukawa sector in Tenryû, which are very close to my heart because they are the product of a very young producer, Suzuki Shôgô. At a time when there are fewer… Read More ›
Shizuoka 2015 : Tenryû
The teas from mountainous areas of Shizuoka play an important role in my selection, they represent a personal ideal with low steamed teas, unshaded, produced on small production lines and high processing skills, etc. We often evokes three major producing… Read More ›