Category: Product Reviews

I received this sample from Yunomi.life. While there are smoked teas in China, this is the first time for Japan. That’s why I was interested in reviewing it. Kaneroku...

Since I had a good experience with my first tea review from Yannoko Tea, I decided to try another one. This sencha comes from Ujitawara town in Kyoto prefecture,...

This tea by Maruyamaen caught my interest because it’s a blend that I hadn’t tasted before. It consists of a fukamushi sencha with a gyokuro from Uji. I received...

DoMatcha Master’s Low Caffeine Matcha is a novel product, I hadn’t heard about such a matcha before. It has the same level of caffeine as a decaffeinated coffee, so...

Many thanks to Ippin for giving me a sample of this interesting tea. The brand is Kawamotoya. It’s the first time that I try it. This lightly oxidized oolong...

While some green teas are often aged at low temperatures, the aging doesn’t last so long. This one, however, is from 2012! It’s a fukamushi sencha made by Imayoshi...

One of the most interesting things about the benifuuki tea cultivar is that when it’s processed as a green tea, it has a high content of methylated catechins. This...

This review was possible thanks to Iain Scott of Yannoko Tea. I don’t drink gyokuro as much as I drink matcha or sencha, but nevertheless I always have a...

Tenjocha Fugaku (天上茶 富嶽) can be translated as “heavens tea from Mount Fuji”. I received this sample thanks to webexpoo.com, a site where you can source Japanese products. It’s...

I have tasted many teas thanks to my friends at Kanes, but this is the first time that I review a matcha from them. Their organic matcha kaze (風,...