It has been a few years now that I have been working with particular passion on Umegashima teas. This is one of the so-called Hon.yama tea production areas (the mountain region north of Shizuoka city), the most upstream along the… Read More ›
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Four sencha from Umegashima
For a few years now, I have been presenting sencha from Umegashima, Yabukita, but also a zairai (about which I have already spoken a lot in previous years) which is somewhat at the origin of my attachment for this small… Read More ›
Two Yabukita from Umegashima
Here’s two sencha already online for some time, two sencha that may seem quite similar but yet quite different. These are two Yabukita from Umegashima (one of the area of the so-called Hon.yama tea growing region, north of Shizuoka, along… Read More ›
Zairai varieties sencha from Umegashima
This is the third year that I propose this “zairai” tea from Umegashima, which has evolved each time to get closer to a certain “ideal”, or simply say a real good sencha. Let us first recall what the term “zairai-shu”… Read More ›
Zairai native plants & Yabukita senchas from Umegashima
Last year, I proposed a sencha from Umegashima (Nyûshima area, more exactly) from Hon.yama, Shizuoka, from an old “zairai” indigenous varieties tea plantation. It was a tea harvested very late, almost a bancha, with a very strong roasting. Indeed, “zairai”… Read More ›
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