I love tea and my definition of what counts as a tea-related post is pretty wide. Expect to see tea reviews, reviews of books about tea, and even posts about afternoon tea.
This is going to be a short post so let me start with a personal update: I came back from a school trip to San Francisco last Saturday and my boyfriend is coming to visit tomorrow so it’ll be another week of no/sporadic blog updates. But when I do have the time to blog more… Read More Teas Ahoy!
I have a big, tea-related talk on Saturday so I really, really wanted to have a tea-related post this week. I’ve been drinking sencha made from the hokumei cultivar, so I thought it was the perfect tea to look into! What is the Hokumei Cultivar? The hokumei cultivar was developed in Saitama prefecture by combining… Read More Tea 101: The Hokumei Cultivar
I got a box of Clipper teas around the end of last year and I’m actually finishing the box right now, so I thought it would be fun to just write quick reviews of each tea! I remember liking Clipper teas when I first started getting into teas, so I thought this would be a… Read More Quick Tea Reviews: A Fabulous Selection Infusions & Thés Bio by Clipper Teas
Hi friends! I’m finally here with another instalment in the SustainabiliTEA series! This profile is different from the rest because for the first time, I’m focusing on a person rather than a farm. I reached out to Rajah Banerjee, who pioneered the organic movement in Darjeeling and since he has experience with two farms, I… Read More SustainabiliTEA: Rajah Banerjee
Hello my tea friends! We are back with a new cultivar to look into – and it’s a very interesting one today. What is the Gokoh Cultivar? I say the Gokoh cultivar is interesting because all these teas that I’m drinking are sencha (steamed green tea, which is different from Chinese green teas which tend… Read More Tea 101: The Gokoh Cultivar
I did an introduction to the Yumewakaba cultivar recently, but somehow, I forgot that I had a Yumewakaba black tea that I could talk about as well. But it all worked out for the best because this tea is so delicious that it deserves its own post! First Impressions As with most black teas, the… Read More Tea Review: Yumewakaba Black Tea
Recently, I was drinking a rather inscrutable tea (i.e. a tea where I don’t get the notes I’m supposed to get) and that got me reflecting a little on my tea journey. As you can probably tell from my tea reviews, I don’t get the most exciting things from my tea tasting sessions, but I… Read More Tea 101: 3 Tips To Improve Your Tea Tasting Abilities
Just before 2021 ended, I saw this post on Instagram from Hachimanjyu (more about the farm here) on a new tea that they were bringing out: Basically, they had a lot of tea flowers blooming this year, so they decided to blend them and make a limited edition flower black tea! I’ve never tried a… Read More Tea Review: 花こうちゃ (Flower Black Tea) by Hachimanjyu
I’ve continued drinking more sencha (I mean, it’s not like I want to stop) so here’s another installment in this series on Japanese tea cultivars. There’s not a lot about the Yumewakaba out there, for reasons I’ll explain soon, but here’s what I could find. What is the Yumewakaba cultivar? Unlike the Yabukita cultivar, which… Read More Tea 101: the Yumewakaba cultivar
Hi friends! It’s time for another SustainabiliTEA profile and today, we’re going back to Japan to talk to Yutani Tea (their Japanese name is 城州ゆたに山口製茶処), who is on Instagram as Ohbuku Valley. I spoke to Yamaguchi-san (山口), who was born in Yuyadani (湯屋谷) in Uji, Kyoto. His family has been making tea for over 300… Read More SustainabiliTEA: Yutani Tea