I’m back with more tea! I’ve been really enjoying this and my gastric seems okay now so hopefully I can have another review up for you on Thursday. Today, I’m talking about Toyoka Tea by Nakajima-en First Impressions The dry leaves look smaller than usual for some reason. Apart from the usual scents associated with… Read More Tea Review: Toyoka by Nakajima-en (Sayama Tea #4)

We’re at tea three and about one third of the way done with this series! I’ve been enjoying all the sencha and am really looking forward to doing a mass-comparison session once I’m done with the individual reviews. This third tea was chosen by the entirely scientific process of opening the tea cabinet and picking… Read More Tea Review: Hokumei by Hiraoka-en (Sayama Tea #3)

I am drinking these teas at a good pace! Hopefully I can keep this up without aggravating my gastric (people with high caffeine tolerances: I want to be you when I grow up). Today’s sencha is from the Musashi-kaori cultivar and comes from Masuoka-en. First Impressions Interestingly, the tea is pretty tightly packed for this… Read More Tea Review: Musashi-Kaori by Masuoka-en (Sayama Tea #2)

I hope you guys like sencha because my tea posts for the next two months are going to be all about sencha (and one about matcha)! My teas from Sayama have arrived and I realised that I ordered…. nine different types of sencha! All are from different cultivars and I think only two are from… Read More Tea Review: Fukumidori by Ohnishien (Sayama Tea #1)