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
I have been drinking the teas sent to me by the NPO Agriculture Support Team in Saitama and I noticed that they’ve started producing teas made with the yabukita cultivar, which I didn’t see when I bought the teas from them last year! The yabukita cultivar is actually the most common tea cultivar in Japan,… Read More Tea 101: the Yabukita cultivar
Hi friends! For the first tea post of this year, I thought it would be interesting to crack open the Yutakamidori Black Tea that I received from the NPO Agriculture Support Team in Saitama. Well, to be honest, the packaging for this tea was a bit damaged when I received it, so I knew I… Read More Tea Exploration: Yutakamidori Black Tea
Hello friends! I am very slowly going through my tea stash, but I was inspired by one of the #TeaTogetherTuesday prompts to write this post (which is out of sync with everyone… oops!). If you’re new to tea, then the first and most important thing I think you should learn is: the right temperature you… Read More Tea 101: The Most Important Thing to Learn About Tea is Temperature
Hi friends! I recently asked some other internet friends if they had questions about tea and they delivered! Quite a few of those questions were pretty general, so I thought it might be useful if I shared them here as well. About Tea Do all teas come from the same plant? Many, if not all… Read More Tea 101: Frequently Asked Questions about Tea
So this review is so late that the product is no longer available (rendering the review useless) but I’m writing this in the hope that Bird & Blend Tea Co. will bring back their Tea 101 box. And also because I really, really want to talk about it. Last year, I made a pretty big… Read More I Tried Bird & Blend Tea Co.’s Tea 101 Box
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
If you’re an unabashed tea-drinker, you’ll eventually end up with a hoard of tea. Some of this tea will be tea that you love, and some of it will be tea that you don’t like as much. Maybe it had a good description, maybe it smelled nice at first, but for whatever reason, you don’t… Read More 3 Things To Do with Teas You Don’t Like
I’ve been wanting to take part in Tea Together Tuesday since it started, but due to poor planning on my part, always forgot to get ready until it was too late. Well, not any more (for this week)! This week’s prompt is: “3 tips for a new tea drinker” and my tips are: Tip 1:… Read More #TeaTogetherTuesday: 3 Tips for a New Tea Drinker
One unexpected effect of the CORVID-19 pandemic was that it completely scuttled my plans of going to Japan in May and viewing part of the shincha season. However, the lovely folks at NPO法人 埼玉農業おうえんしたい (NPO Agriculture Support Team in Saitama) have provided me with some of the latest information. What is Sayama Tea(狭山茶)? Located in the… Read More What is Sayama Tea? (Shincha Season in Sayama)