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Nagatani Tea: Ujitawara Tenmyo Matcha – Premium Ceremonial Grade
This Matcha Monday, I want to introduce you to Nagatani Tea & their Premium Ceremonial Grade, Ujitawara Tenmyo Matcha. This matcha uses a new and rather rare cultivar by the name of Tenmyo which was registered in 2006 and cultivated from a seed of the Samidori cultivar in Uji, Kyoto, with the other parent being…
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Chiyonoen Tea Garden: Standard Ceremonial Grade Yame Matcha (Hime Midori)
This single cultivar Hime Midori Matcha is from Chiyonoen Tea Garden, a small tea garden operated by husband and wife farmers Masashi and Eri Harashima deep in the mountains of Yabe Village, Fukuoka, Japan. It is a 3rd generation farm that specialises in high grade mountain-grown sencha and gyokuro, established by his grandfather and the…
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Garden Glimpses – Kiroku Tea Garden
Kiroku Tea Garden is a fourth generation tea garden in Wazuka Japan, an area whose mountain tea fields & undulating terraced slopes thick with fog make perfect tea-growing conditions. It was founded nearly 100 years ago, before farming machines became available & their grandfather cleared their fields completely by hand. Today they are owned entirely…
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Tsujiki Tea Garden: Modern Heritage Grade – Uji Matcha (Gokou)
Just over nine years have passed since I started this blog and throughout all of that time, I have been able to sip my way through many a matcha, the majority of which were single cultivar matchas sourced from many different locations throughout Japan. Those experiences have been able to help me learn about the…
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Garden Glimpses – Koukien Tea Garden
We’ve quickly found ourselves at the end of September already which means that it’s time for another instalment of the Garden Glimpses series, with just one more after this to finish off the year. If you are yet to read any of the previous instalments of this series, now is the perfect time to catch…
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