Cultivar

Of the more than 100 registered tea cultivars in Japan, the vast majority were developed for green tea. The country's...

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Open a bag of most Japanese green teas and you get something grassy, oceanic, or lightly vegetal — the clean green ch...

Turn over the tin of a smooth, vivid green Matcha from Uji or Nishio, and there is a reasonable chance the cultivar l...

The cup is pale and luminous — a green so clear it almost looks like spring water until the light catches it. Then th...

Every tea you have ever tasted — every Sencha, every Darjeeling, every smoky oolong — traces its ancestry to one of t...

Every year, the first Shincha — Japan's eagerly anticipated new-season tea — comes from Kagoshima. Specifically, it t...