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Garden Glimpses – Tarui Tea Farm

In January I started a brand new series titled Garden Glimpses, a series in which each post focuses on a single Japanese tea garden / farm, highlighting the work they are doing alongside my personal experiences with them and the teas that I have had the chance to sample from them over the years since…
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Women in Tea – Yunomi.Life Sampler Gift Set | Review

Yunomi’s founder Ian Chun launched the Women in Tea Collection back in October 2021 in efforts to spotlight and encourage the women who have taken on leading roles in their businesses. They wanted to shine the light on these passionate women, and help connect their customers to some of these inspiring women. While women in the Japanese…
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Kamairicha Comparison – Ft Two Sun Dried Kamairicha’s From Tea Farm Mitocha

I recently had the opportunity to try out two separate Kamairicha’s from Mitocha and because I had previously had such fantastic sessions with both, I wanted to conduct a comparison session with them and see how they compared to each other when prepare exactly the same way, and discover just how much the subtle differences…
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Matcha Monday | Chakouan: Ureshino Kamairi Matcha | Review

Happy Matcha Monday! Today I want to share with you a unique matcha that I had the opportunity to try recently. The matcha in question is Chakouan’s Ureshino Kamairi Matcha and it uses Kamairi (pan-fired) Tencha that is ground into fine matcha powder with a stone mill. When I was placing my last order with…
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Tasting Sessions – Kurihara Tea #03 – Shin (Heart) Premium Gyokuro

I’m sure it comes as a shock to absolutely no-one that I am a huge Gyokuro fan, I have always said that if I could only drink one kind of loose leaf Japanese green tea for the rest of my life it would be Gyokuro, so I am always on the look out for new…