Tea tasting

New vs. Old; A Kasuga Sencha Tasting For The Tea Club

In order to give you the full experience of the difference between this year’s harvest and last year’s, and so that you can discover not only how tea changes depending on the different weather conditions but also how it can mature and change after processing, our Tea Club this month featured a shincha from this year and the same tea by the same producer from last year’s harvest: native seed-grown sencha from Kasuga.  We encourage you to take some time to brew both of them and compare how they are similar and different.

A CONVERSATION ABOUT OUR DEDICATED TEA TASTING NOTEBOOK WITH THE DESIGNER.

INTRODUCTION Sven Kraus is a renowned calligrapher and artisan craftsman in the “toji” Japanese bookbinding style. He has designed and fully hand-crafted a Japan-themed notebook dedicated to making tea tasting notes, which is perhaps the most appealing notebook dedicated to tea available on the market today. It includes appealing calligraphies and illustrations, a tasting how-to introduction, about …

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