Let’s briefly resurrect the wine analogies with tea: variety, terroir, climate, altitude, agricultural methods...
Believing in zeitgeist, we can’t, I suppose, claim to have been the cause of the return to loose leaf teas in the UK...
All this information about kettles came from mentioning the lecture I attended so I'll wrap up with a return to Mr Sasaki Hikobee and what he does.
Recently I was delighted to attend a lecture by Hikobee Sasaki, Onkamashi the 6th, a kamahiko from Kyoto
The mother of a friend of mine has reported finding the effect of having drunk one of our teas as “trippy”...
Some people react badly to caffeine. Not a true allergy, I believe, but very unpleasant nonetheless
It’s interesting the ways in which teas reveal themselves: especially in the case of oolongs
In polite circles in Japan even a tiny cup will be held with two hands