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Sakura Sessions – Chiyonoen Tea Garden: #27 Mountain-Grown Yame Sakura Leaf Black Tea

The week before last I started a series here on my blog titled Sakura Sessions. I knew that the first tea featured for this series had to be my favourite Sakura Sencha, a true staple in my tea collection at all times of the year. My aim with this series is just to show how I…
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Tasting Sessions : Ogura Tea Garden: First Flush Yabukita Wakocha

Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve done a tasting sessions post hasn’t it! Totally not an intended break at all, but one I just had to take due to medical issues. However I recently tried a new First Flush, Yabukita Wakoucha from Ougra Tea Garden. Over the years I’ve tried a fantastic selection of…
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Insights Into The Japanese Tea Industry – Tezumi Tea (Q&A -Part 2)
Happy New Year Everyone! I know I only posted yesterday and it been a hell of a long time that I’ve posted two days in a row but today I wanted to follow up on yesterdays Insights Into The Japanese Tea Industry post and get the second half of my Q&A with Tezumi Tea out…
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Tasting Sessions – Trying An Aged Japanese Black Tea For The First Time!
2021 is coming to an end now but we still have some time left and what better way to finish off the year than with another brand new (to me) tea experience. So today this post is going to document my first experience with a 2019 aged Japanese black tea, which again found it’s way…
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Insights Into The Japanese Tea Industry – Postcard Tea Q&A
I can’t believe we are at this point in the year already it really seems like this year has gone by in the blink of an eye compared to 2020, before we know it Christmas will be here and we’ll be making our way into 2022 but until then there are many more Fridays which…