I announce with pride the birth of a new shop specializing in mail order Japanese teas: teas of Japan.
Why pride? because it is I who am responsible for the selection of teas from the shop. It is not even for me a full time activity, but in the future I hope to devote myself full time and be able to expand activities and services.
In reality, for now, the site is not ready yet, but I can not wait to start selling many teas that I selected all of the highest quality, they deserve to be appreciated as soon as possible . Therefore we will begin, tentatively, our business through online catalog.
You can ask the catalog to the following email address:
florent.weugue (at) thes-du-japon.com
I will detail the products in various posts that will follow, so I will not speak here only briefly, and I would like to first explain my approach to the first wave of supply of tea in Japan.
The first thing is quality. Provide value for money equivalent to the best specialty stores in Japan. We are in Japan and ship from Japan to the world, so this is something obvious.
The second thing, my guidance in the selection of products.
I wanted to have a wide selection of teas Japanese executives who can represent the most famous growing regions of Japan. From south to north, here are the departments represented: Kagoshima, Fukuoka (Yame), Saga (Ureshino), Kyoto (Uji), Mie (Ise), Shizuoka, and finally Saitama (Sayama). I would like also able to subsequently make teas from areas less well known to render homage to the producers of talent across the country.
So classic teas, representative, but it is more important for me to also make more specific teas, some rare, some atypical.
In this way, I present course Sencha, Gyokuro , kabuse -cha, Matcha , tamaryoku -cha, but also the very rare today iri kama-cha, and even a black tea.
At the same time, I present the variety of Japanese tea through numbers of cultivars, or atypical fashion manufacturing. For this I am partly supplied by producers and talented visionaries, Akiyama Katsuhide (for its incredible variety of amazing and rare varieties, that make me look forward to my next wave of supply), and Yoshiaki Hiruma with his now famous teas extraordinary fragrances obtained by wilting and slight oxidation of its sencha.
Regarding the gyokuro , I chose to present only the products of very high level, because I think by its very particular mode of consumption, even of Gyokuro midrange are not interesting.
What's more, otherwise it is up to each do their own idea of this diversity, to be surprised by unusual teas.
Also, about the brewing methods that I indicate in the catalog, these are only proposals, or rather an index as a starting point for finding your own "best way to brew this tea ".
Finally, as always, feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
I think the Japanese tea deserves to be better known, better appreciated, even re-assessed. So this business is a natural place in the continuity of this blog, and I hope of course that many of you will "join me" in this new and exciting adventure!
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