Category: Product Reviews

This is the third Japanese movie about Rikyū. The other two are Death of a Tea Master, and Ask This of Rikyū. The title in Japanese is 利休. It’s...

The name of this movie in Japanese is Sen no Rikyū: Honkakubo’s Literary Remains (千利休 本覺坊遺文), and it was released in 1989. It is the film adaptation of a...

This year I haven’t reviewed a black tea. Japanese black tea, or wakoucha, is still uncommon in the market. Ocha & Co gave me this sample. It’s organic and...

One of the teas that I make almost everyday is genmaicha. My wife likes it very much. But she prefers that I prepare it for her. So she was...

Arigato Japan Food Tours, as the name implies, is a food tour company in Japan. Because of the pandemic, they started offering virtual food tours as well. I was...

After recording the podcast, I received a sample from Matcha Moto. It’s an organic, ceremonial matcha from the Uji region. This looks like a good way to start my...

Today I continue my exploration of single cultivar sencha with this Tsuyuhikari tea. It is an organic sencha from Kawane, Shizuoka prefecture. Although this tea isn’t so rare in...

I received this sample from California Tea House. It’s the first time that I taste one of their teas. The website doesn’t offer much information about this matcha, such...

This tea is the latest addition to the masters collection of Naoki Matcha. It consists of a blend of cultivars from Uji: Samidori and Ujihikari. A matcha from this...

I received a sample of an organic sencha from the Fujimidori cultivar, courtesy of Sugimoto Tea. This tea is made in Kawane, Shizuoka prefecture. It’s an uncommon cultivar for...

This new tea app is just what I was waiting for. It works as a tea journal, keeps tracks of teas, and it has an integrated timer. Plus, it’s...

Miyazaki Sabo has been growing tea without fertilizers or pesticides for over 30 years. I haven’t tasted their teas. They seem to be experts at making kamairicha. By the...