During the past months many events got cancelled or moved to an online mode because of Covid-19. This is why it made us especially happy to hear that Cajomir Fest 2020 – Prague Tea Festival, being an open air event, could take place despite the current times. This tea festival is quite special. It started […]
The online Meet the Tea Farmer events were started to give Japanese tea farmers a chance to introduce their teas to the international audiences. For the tea professionals and the tea lovers around the world these events also give an opportunity to access hard-to-find high quality Japanese teas and get to know who is behind […]
The tea situation in Japan has been difficult for several years, and, coupled with the pandemic, 2020 may be especially hard for tea farmers in Japan. Tea farmers normally focus on cultivating and processing Japanese tea, which most of them sell through the local tea auctions. However, because of the decreasing demand, the market price […]
While we have been holding weekly online tea parties for our members since 25th Match, on the 24th April we held our first public Global Japanese Tea Party. All together over 15 people joined us from all around the world including the USA, Germany, Lebanon, South Africa, Singapore, etc. We crossed over many timezones and some […]
They tell us we shouldn’t meet in person? Well then, we will meet online! On 25th March together with our Tea Fellows we held our first online tea gathering – Global Japanese Tea Party. The 6 people that joined represented 2 continents and 8 countries (just because we are so global!). Each brought 1-2 Japanese teas […]
Winter time is the training time for the Japanese Tea Professionals Competition. The competition is based on sensory evaluation of tea. The participants have to identify tea harvesting season from dry tea appearance; tea cultivar from wet tea leaves and the brew, tea kind and producing region from dry tea leaves, etc. The competition also […]
Miho museum in Shiga recently had a Bizenyaki exhibition. Bizen in Okayama prefecture is one of the 6 oldest kilns in Japan – pottery has been made here for over 600 years. Traditionally Bizen wares are fired unglazed in wood burning kilns. Because of that the result is slightly rough texture and primitive earthy colours […]
Every year Japan Tea Industry Association holds a conference to present the recent research topics on Japanese tea. Every major tea producing prefecture in Japan (such as Shizuoka, Kagoshima, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Mie, etc.) has their research centers and they all work on making improvements on Japanese tea. The yearly conference gives them an opportunity to […]