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What is a tea cultivar?

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If you are fairly knowledge about Japanese sencha tea, you may have heard the term “Yabukita”. Yabukita is a cultivated variety of camellia sinensis (tea plant) used to produce Japanese sencha. Almost 85% of the sencha produced in Japan is with this particular variety because it is said to have the best balance between hardiness [...]

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How is Japanese sencha tea hand-processed?

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There are two ways delicious sencha is produced: a hand rolling process (temomi) and a machine rolling process [...]

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Shading techniques

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More info coming soon on shading techniques…

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Where do you get your information?

On 2011/10/12 By

Unless a specific source is cited, most of the information on this website comes directly from us (the farmers: Akky and Matsu) and translated from the Japanese by Ian, our go-to guy for everything English. (Yes, Ian does feel strange writing about himself in the third person.) Find out more about the team here!

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