Milena Velbanadine Jensen

Small info and closeups

in Japan since July, the heat wave did not finish, it's hot, humid, and we still think there for a few weeks!
hard to sell tea! Many rabatent on tea cold, yet it is finally hot green tea that makes the greatest service to the body, it quenches thirst more, brought out the bad sweat. In China it
council green tea, white or yellow to refresh the body, black tea, blue-green or red for warm.

habituation of my blog will be understood, when I start a ticket this kind of worldliness is that I do not have much to tell. It's true!
But I still have a little interesting info from the journal of the Association Nihoncha Instructor. Such information makes us come back to tea again this difficult year. As a reminder, a cold, frost, has inflicted substantial damage to plantations of tea (tea not only by the way), causing delay, low quantity of crops (- 20 to 50%!), And therefore a increased 40% in the price of tea in the markets. In short, the supply for the 2010/2011 year was a nightmare for manufacturers.
So a few months have passed, and now the news. Laboratory tests passed on the teas produced in 2010 show richest theanine - this amino acid as desired, responsible for the equally sought after sweet tea - the tea last year. So
softness. We forget the nightmare of the industrial, and we rejoiced for the consumer! Of course, theanine is not everything, but still! And this confirms my general impression, very good products are present. We can say that what has been "saved from the cold" it is out for the best. This is actually not completely surprising
If we schematically, theanine is produced in the roots of the shrub, then moves into the leaves, where, under the action of photosynthesis, it is transformed gradually into astringent catechin. So, sun and heat only accelerate the process, and finally this year, no heat, little sunshine. Thus, what survived the frost is left with more gentle theanine. (And yes, very rich in theanine Gyokuro and Matcha they are not grown in culture covered)

Besides that, I do not at this time of tea I would especially like to present here. If I well have one or two, but the current climate, very unfavorable to the preservation of sencha makes me refrain from leaving them to their vacuum packaging. I avoid having too much open for consumed faster. Summer is hardly befitting the Japanese green tea.
I shall be much small sencha Contest in Tokyo 2009, futsumushi sencha from the Department 高 知 Kochi on Shikoku Island, but ultimately not. It is very good, but lacks a little something, and the relative scarcity of the product (Kochi, about 15th in terms of acreage, 520 hectares, against 19,200 for Shizuoka) does not necessarily render a helping heart.

Finally, here are some closeups of small trials.