“A sample from ashmanra to share with my dad, and we did that this morning before I go off traveling again. This tea is quite smooth and not terribly smoky as Lapsang scan get. A very pleasant and...” Read full tasting note
“This was part of my Mother’s Day gift from Superanna! Many thanks! I am using this as my final May prompt for a tea with surprising (or was it unusual?) ingredients, because Japanese black is rare...” Read full tasting note
Matsumoto san Family has been producing tea in the Shizuoka region for several generations. Samurai, their ancestor, traded his sword for farming tools and started tea production. Today his descendant chooses to create a unique tea. That’s how, after green, black and oolong tea he created the first Japanese smoked teas, exclusively produced from Japanese wood, in condfidential quantity.
This tea is the encounter of a black tea harvested not far from the Fuji mountain and the famous Nagano Japanese Maple tree. Smoked with maple wood chips, results a liquor more subtle than its Chinese cousin (Lapsang Souchong) developing round and warm notes.
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