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Tea Review – English Tea Store Gyokuro
Ask ten tea enthusiasts to name the world’s finest green tea and you’ll likely receive ten different answers. Taste is subjective, after all. What one tea drinker considers extraordinary, another may simply find good. Yet despite the diversity of opinion, one tea consistently appears near the top of discussions about premium green teas: Gyokuro. Among… Continue reading
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Tea and the Olympics: Track and Field
Track and field is one of the most diverse Olympic disciplines, featuring dozens of events across running, walking, and field competitions. If you had to pick one standout day to watch, August 11 is a strong contender—packed with multiple gold medal events, including distance races, relays, and field finals. If you plan to enjoy the… Continue reading
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Gyokuro Face-off
Gyokuro is a tea that appeals to those tea drinkers who want high quality but also to those who want to go beyond the basics. It is considered the finest of the green teas grown and processed in Japan. Small wonder, then, when a tea gourmand orders a vendor’s version and is very particular about… Continue reading
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Characteristic as a Result of Stress
Certain teas possess different qualities based on many factors: location of growth, climate, elevation, soil, processing, etc. This is what makes each tea unique, and thus the enjoyment of connoisseurship. Sometimes a tea has a certain attribute due to either induced stress, or natural stress (abiotic stress or biotic stress). The most common of the… Continue reading
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Cha Cha Cha: Japanese Tea
When it comes to quantity, Japan is not a top producer or consumer of tea, but tea drinking is still an integral part of Japanese culture. One of Japan’s greatest contributions to tea drinking, the Japanese tea ceremony, is renowned the world over. Tea came to Japan by way of China. Tea seeds may have… Continue reading
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Japanese Green Tea – Japan’s Native Tea
While tea from China comes in many colors including white, green, brown (oolong) and black, all tea from Japan is green. There are three main types of green tea from Japan. Sencha is the most common tea served as an every day drink in Japan. While there are high-quality Sencha tea leaves that are plucked… Continue reading
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The Languages of Tea – Japanese
by Adam Yusko Avid tea drinkers and enthusiasts can find a plethora of information on the Internet related to tea. There are countless tea forums, wiki sites and articles out there, many of which are rather international in their tea-coverage. If you’ve ever browsed or contributed to some of these forums, you may have seen… Continue reading
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How to Brew the Perfect Cup of Tea
The perfect cup of tea – it’s an elusive creature and one that may not even exist. But if you’re willing to settle for a nearly perfect cup of tea, you’d do well to keep these guidelines in mind. Water Quality The ancient Chinese scholar Lu Yu said water from mountain streams is best for… Continue reading
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Types of Green Tea: Gyokuro
By William I. Lengeman III For serious connoisseurs and students of green tea there are primarily two countries of origin worthy of mention. Though a few other countries produce quality green tea in modest amounts, their output pales next to that of the kings of green – China and Japan. Green tea fans would do… Continue reading
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