It’s shincha time! But because I have exercised great restraint and not placed an order for shincha (I just found 3 unopened packs of Lupicia tea in my cabinet so I probably should not be buying tea yet), what I have to drink are these senchas from 2017. They were part of The Tea Crane’s… Read More Tea Review: Aged Yabukita Spring Harvest Sencha by The Tea Crane
I’m back with another (and the last) tea made from the Benifuuki cultivar! This is a sencha from Nara and it’s very interesting. According to the booklet, this sencha “is intended to be functional as opposed to simply a delicious tea. The tea leaves used for manufacturing this rather crude looking green tea are from… Read More Tea Review: Benifuuki Sencha from The Tea Crane
Now that my one week sip-down is over, I can try new teas again! The next two teas will be from The Tea Crane’s monthly tea subscription and they are both made from Benifuuki cultivars! As you may remember, I love this cultivar in black tea form so I am very excited to try these.… Read More Tea Review: Benifuuki Kamairicha Yame from The Tea Crane
I hope you are enjoying this series of tea reviews where I alternate between a flavoured tea and a straight tea because I am definitely enjoying them! I’m getting a lot of variety in my tea and that makes me happy. So today’s tea is another one of the samples that I received from The… Read More Tea Review: Kumamoto Densho Kamairicha by The Tea Crane
I’ve generally been slowly and quietly drinking the teas in Lupicia’s Book of Tea, but I could not resist talking about this one. The English name is Sencha Fuji, but the Japanese name is 富士 香駿 (Fuji Koshun). Apparently, the 香駿/Koshun cultivar is a relatively rare cultivar, so I decided to dig around and see… Read More Introducing: Koshun (香駿) Cultivar
I think I’m getting better at finishing opened teas before starting new ones because I finished the Jun Chiyabari Oolong and the Tea & Toast blend before opening this. The Nara Native Mountain-grown Sencha is one of the teas from The Tea Crane, run by Tyas Sosen (who also wrote The Story of Japanese Tea),… Read More Tea Review: Nara Native Mountain-grown Sencha from The Tea Crane
And we’re back with another review of the What-Cha haul! This time, the tea is a Korean tea, which is one of the countries I don’t know much about. For reference, the only other straight tea from Korea that I’ve tried is the Volcanic Rock Tea by O’Sulloc, so I was super excited to find… Read More Tea Review: Korean Dong Cheon Daejak Semi-Wild Green Tea from What Cha
If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll probably have figured out that I’m back in the office now. And as it turns out, I left one packet of opened sencha in the tea drawer before I left! The tea definitely isn’t bad but it’s been six months (in my defence, I thought I’d be away… Read More I made my own Hojicha
Today’s teas come from Gina, one of my friends in Indonesia! She sent these two teas from 七 Story [1] via another friend and I decided to drink them while I’m in quarantine (because my novel experiences are currently all book and tea related). There was only enough for one tea session per blend, so… Read More Tea Review: Smoky Green Tea & Jakarta Thee 492 from 七 Story
This has happened so much faster than I expected, but we’re at the end of the Sayama tea reviews! Appropriately, the last tea is called Sayama-Kaori, which can be translated as “the smell of Sayama”. First Impressions The dry leaves smell totally different from the previous tea, the Gokoh. While the Gokoh was sharp and… Read More Tea Review: Sayama-Kaori by Okutomi-en (Sayama Tea #9)