95%… Gyokuro ~ Nishida Haruka Zono 25 Dec 201530 Jan 2016 No, this post is not about Kanamemo. Nishida Haruka Zono is the name of a kisaten (and probably tea master) in Kyoto. Sorry anime fans. ;) I hope you'll excuse the…
94%… Organic Sencha Fukamushi ~ Upton Tea Imports 27 Sep 201525 Sep 2016 When i first opened Organic Sencha Fukamushi i was floored with how thick this matcha-like-without-being-a-true-powder appeared. When i poured it out onto my digital scale, i quickly exceeded the 2.25 gram…
97%… Gyokuro ~ Eli 26 Mar 201529 Sep 2016 Warning, fangirl gushing ahead... After writing so many of these posts, eventually at some point if a vendor chooses to simply call their tea "gyokuro", I can't really let that…
A2 Local… Japan Kabusecha 13 Dec 201420 Dec 2015 Tonight I'm celebrating my last day living in Washtenaw County (after 5 1/2 years) by visiting a few of my favorite tea houses. To start off, I hit up Cafe…
A2 Local… Asahi Gyokuro ~ By The Pound 29 Aug 201420 Dec 2015 To round off the week(~ish) of Japanese tea reviews, I dug through many a Tupperware container in the dark with curlers threatening to fly off me this morning to bring…