Even today a lot of tea in Japan is sold in tea auctions. The first opening of the auction is always a big event. It gathers people from all walks of the tea industry. Tea buyers – usually big tea wholesalers, are the key participants of course. But you can also meet tea farmers, agricultural […]
Bologna Tea Festival In Tè Festival in Italy was fun and inspiring! 9 people attended our workshop on regional banchas. To our surprise, bancha is lately quite known in Italy, but most of what can be found is summer or autumn harvest. The persons that joined were then surprised to taste many different flavours compared to what […]
Exactly one year ago our ideas of spreading Japanese tea took better form and the Global Japanese Tea Association was decided to start. All these past months we had been thinking, planning, talking, sharing and announcing around to tea people and at tea events about this. At long last, the official opening event took place […]