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10 Years
When I started this blog ten years ago, I wanted to use it as a way to not only share my love of tea with others, but also as a platform for me to be able to learn and develop as a tea enthusiast and channel my creativity. Looking back, I think I can safely…
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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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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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Ayumi Farms – Handpicked (Ultra Micro Lot) Shizuoka Sencha – Review & Art Pairing
It may be autumn now, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop drinking green tea altogether, especially when they are as delicious as this Ayumi Farms, Handpicked (Ultra Micro Lot) Shizuoka Sencha is. The leaves are a jewel toned green and slightly glossy in texture, and have an aroma that is fantastically complex with…
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