Happy Summer!
It's been a long wait for this year's New Harvest Teas, but the majority are now in!
Shortages and price hikes brought about by the world-wide matcha boom have severely limited the availability of all Japanese teas. However, after tasting nearly 100 teas this summer, I have come up with a great new line-up of teas from appellations both familiar and unfamiliar. We still have lots of teas from Kyushu (Kagoshima, Miyazaki, Kumamoto, & Saga); as well as teas from Shizuoka (Fujieda, Honyama, & Kawane); Sayama (Saitama), Sashima (Ibaraki), Goka (Gifu), Tosa (Kochi), Nakaisamurai (Nagano); with more teas on the way from Murakami (Niigata).
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Yours in tea, Tatsuo Tomeoka, Charaku Fine Japanese Tea / WaSabiDou
| Stainless Steel Round Tea Scoop/spoon, Chami. Japanese made. L. 3.25"(8.5cm). Weight 26 grams. Simplicity of design typifies the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi. Scoops and spoons for portioning Japanese green tea should ideally be thin as to not crush the tea leaves. |