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Japanese Tea Encyclopedia
Green Tea Cultivar
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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...
When you choose an Okumidori Matcha, Sencha, or Gyokuro, the name points to a late-harvest Japanese cultivar bred fro...
The cup is pale and luminous — a green so clear it almost looks like spring water until the light catches it. Then th...
Every year, the first Shincha — Japan's eagerly anticipated new-season tea — comes from Kagoshima. Specifically, it t...
Pick up any bag of Japanese Sencha from a shop — a supermarket, a specialty retailer, a tea house. Odds are good that...
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