Organised by The International Tea Appreciation Society, the past 23d and 24th of November the Victoria Tea Fest Revival 2020 took place online! An extended Tea Symposium program was streamed live for 24 hours (!!!), with many different guests from around the world. Many of the talks caught our attention, but among them of course […]
Tea education is one of the core activities of our association. We have been holding tea courses for several years and now have three levels on Japanese tea: Foundation, Intermediate and Master. Believing that the best way to learn is to experience it yourself, we strive to provide as much hands-on experience as possible. Most […]
During the past weekend of 24th and 25th of October, Nomad Tea Festival Europe was celebrated online. At the festival, participants could virtually visit different tea vendors, chat with them, see their teas or listening to their presentations. Among the exhibitors, 3 of them specialise exclusively on Japanese teas: Yunomi, Sono Organic and The Japanese […]
Recently I started to discover the Japanese archipelagos a little bit more. I took advantage of the travel restrictions to explore a little bit more this beautiful country going beyond the common touristic places and finding in extremely wild nature the essence of Japan! During “Silver week”, a week of holidays in Japan around the […]
October is almost the end of the autumn tea harvesting season. The last few tea leaves will be harvested in the next few days and then will come a long period of rest. With the decreasing amount of the field work, there is more time for promotion. Many tea producing prefectures in Japan have been […]
At our monthly Meet the Tea Farmer event on 28th October our guest tea farmer was Yuji Kurihara – a 4th generation tea farmer from Yame, Fukuoka Kurihara-san manages his family tea farm together with his brother. They produce many different teas, like gyokuro, sencha, wakoucha, hojicha, genmaicha and more. Some of them, especially gyokuro, […]
On 23rd September we held our third monthly Meet the Tea Farmer event and our guest tea farmer was Kenta Hosoi – the 5th generation tea farmer from Wazuka, Kyoto. Hosoi-san enjoyed tea farming from early days and knowing that he would want to continue his family’s tradition he went to study about tea farming […]
Do you know Wakōcha? Speaking about Japanese tea we cannot help but recall in our mind the refreshing flavor of Sencha as well as the toasty aroma of Hōjicha, not to mention the creamy texture of matcha, all different types of green tea. In recent years, due to their fascinating cultural background as well as […]