Sweet and rich matcha from
Single cultivar Okunoyama, from Tea Repertoire tea shop. I love it.
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- Tue Jan 12, 2021 2:00 pm
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: Your day in matcha
- Replies: 292
- Views: 168855
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 5:14 am
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Ode to the Kyusu
- Replies: 634
- Views: 326094
Re: Ode to the Kyusu
The two red ones in the above posted links are labelled as "shudei" (朱泥).
- Thu Apr 16, 2020 5:10 am
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: Your day in matcha
- Replies: 292
- Views: 168855
- Fri Mar 06, 2020 6:28 am
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: Rating current matcha and finding good cost/oz matcha (recs requested)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5517
Re: Rating current matcha and finding good cost/oz matcha (recs requested)
Tsuen Uji Manten & Taiko-San from Tsuen tea shop in Uji (available online from O-cha.com) are very good. Ippodo high end matchas are usually very good too. I will add another shop name to your list: Sazentea. I highly recommend Narino and Choan matchas (one is recommended for koicha and one for usuc...
- Mon Dec 16, 2019 1:38 am
- Forum: Fermented Tea
- Topic: Goishi cha, typical profile
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2720
Re: Goishi cha, typical profile
John_B : Everything you describe sounds like goishi cha to me. It is exactly the taste and impression I remind of when I tried it. And same as pedant , I only have tried it outside of teabags, pressed leaves, cut in small square/rectangle thin pieces. It was not from TdJ but received from a friend.
- Wed Dec 11, 2019 6:55 am
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: Your day in matcha
- Replies: 292
- Views: 168855
Re: Your day in matcha
First tasting of Ippodo Kyōgoku no Mukashi, very sweet and tasty in this chawan by Michikawa Shōzō.
- Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:48 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is tea a spiritual activity for you?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27000
Re: Is tea a spiritual activity for you?
I was about to post an answer to this topic about zen in relation with tea while reading the last entries. I read the considerations by Baisao about tea and zen, and this whole discussion bring me the thought of how zen people explain (Or do not explain) zen. Zen is zen, and tea is tea. For me, spir...
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 2:22 am
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Bizen or Tokoname for Gyokuro?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6459
- Fri Nov 29, 2019 2:21 am
- Forum: Japan
- Topic: Bizen or Tokoname for Gyokuro?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6459
Re: Bizen or Tokoname for Gyokuro?
Same as the previous answers, if I had to choose I’d go for the second one. My own choice is for shudei or other Japanese red clay to brew this kind of tea. Oxydation or reduction firing make no big difference. The iron content of these clay make the tea body more velvety and acts as umami and cream...
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Is tea a spiritual activity for you?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 27000
Re: Is tea a spiritual activity for you?
The above quote is very inspiring indeed, but one must note that it was written about Japanese Way of Tea as first intention. I don’t know how much it can be used for other ways of tea. Anyway, tea in China has also been a typical activity for Chinese intellectual and art-cultivated class. I don’t k...
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:41 pm
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: What Green Are You Drinking
- Replies: 1495
- Views: 720390
Re: What Green Are You Drinking
I think it’s an impression of the photo, actually the lid is just resting on the belly of the teapot under the handle. I kept the lid open because I didn’t want the gyokuro to be overcooked by heat during the first infusion.
- Wed Nov 27, 2019 10:50 am
- Forum: Green Tea
- Topic: What Green Are You Drinking
- Replies: 1495
- Views: 720390
Re: What Green Are You Drinking
Kōzan Gyokuro (Ippodo)
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 6:14 am
- Forum: White Tea
- Topic: What's exactly a "Moonlight white / Yue Guang Bai" tea ?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10704
Re: What's exactly a "Moonlight white / Yue Guang Bai" tea ?
You can watch this video by William from Farmers Leaf to understand the difference between white tea (Yunnan Moonlight, Fujian Bai Hao Yinzhen/Bai Mu Dan/Shou Mei):
https://youtu.be/yRxrEWs3QY8
https://youtu.be/yRxrEWs3QY8
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 2:23 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: The Porcelain Thread
- Replies: 311
- Views: 225094
- Wed Oct 30, 2019 6:31 am
- Forum: Travel
- Topic: Tea Map references
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11883
Re: Tea Map references
There is a map with the teas from the online shop, not exactly what was asked for but still...:
https://zhaozhoutea.com/tea-map/
https://zhaozhoutea.com/tea-map/