Hon Yama: Shincha from Japan’s ‘Shizuoka Alps’ The Hon Yama tea growing region is located along the streams and valleys of the Abe and Warashina Rivers at the base of Shizuoka’s Southern Alps. It is a renowned terroir for sencha aficionados with natural micro-climates...
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Makers Spotlight: Yamaguchi San Our friend and fellow Rishi member, Ryo Iwamoto, a Urasenke Tea Master and Japanese Ambassador, recently had the opportunity to sit down with Mr. Shinya Yamaguchi 山口真也, a 3rd generation tea farmer to talk about the very specialized...
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Makers Spotlight: Tsuji San Our friend and fellow Rishi, Ryo Iwamoto, a Urasenke Tea Master and Ambassador of Japanese Tea based in Tokyo and Shizuoka, had the opportunity to sit down with a 5th generation tea master, Tsuji San, including the distinction of producing...
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Makers Spotlight: Nakanishi San Our friend and fellow Rishi, Ryo Iwamoto, a Urasenke Tea Master and Japanese Tea Ambassador, had the opportunity to sit down with Nakanishi San, a renowned farmer whose family has over 250 years of tea farming history. Nakanishi San is...
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Japanese Green Tea In-Depth: Japanese Green Tea Japan is renowned for green teas with a natural and vivid green color, fresh bitter sweetness, and famed umami flavor. This unique character is typically imparted when the tea is steam fired. Inside of Japanese green tea...
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What is Matcha? The Espresso of Tea. Matcha is a traditional Japanese green tea powder produced by stone-milling a shade-grown green tea called tencha into a fine powder. Matcha has a rich cultural tradition as the tea prepared and revered during chanoyu–the...
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This Spring of 2019, Joshua visited the 5th generation tea master, Tsuji San, who is the recipient of many prestigious awards for his matcha. He has even received an award from the Emperor of Japan for his unrivaled tencha tea-farming practices (the last time the...
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