In this episode, we review a beautiful herbal infusion called Guayusa. This is a tea coming from the Ecuadorian rainforest and it is really delicious!

Today we are tasting a tea that doesn’t get much attention and that is the Japanese Oolong. Normally people talk about either Chinese Oolongs or Japanese Green Tea but rarely do they talk about Japanese Oolong. This one we found from Issin-en is really delicious!

You may know Mr. Sakamoto as our legendary Gyokuro farmer but did you know he also produces matcha? Let’s give it a try!

In this episode, we try a new Gyokuro from Mr. Sakamoto that has a much lower price tag. The Gyokuro Matsu is a fantastic value tea that delivers a powerful sweet umami flavor in the first steeping.

In this episode we drink a Bancha from a farm in Shizuoka and compare it with a standard supermarket Bancha. There is a lot more complexity to this one from Shizuoka!

The Cha Musume is our most popular Gyokuro, but it is not the highest quality Gyokuro we sell. To see the difference between the two Gyokuro I wanted to do a side by side comparison of these two amazing teas.

In this episode, I do the unthinkable and drink tea out of a tea bag! I talk about why many tea lovers prefer loose leaf tea and how you can make the switch.

In this episode, we compare two of our matchas, the matcha Washimine, a smooth and creamy Okumidori matcha, with a strong and vegetal Yabukita matcha like the Matcha Sesui

In this episode, we will be doing a tasting of one of my all time favorite green teas! The Gyokuro Cha Musume is the most popular tea on our site and it has a very nice umami sweetness to it. It is difficult to grow high quality organic Gyokuro, but our farmer Mr. Sakamoto has found a way to produce some amazing quality teas without the use of conventional pesticides.

In this episode, we will be Tasting a very unique Japanese green tea. Instead of being steamed like most Japanese green teas, this one is pan fired and that really makes a big difference in the taste!