"July-harvested sencha from Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantations contains a full-bodied astringency for a perfect food pairing with salty cuisines"
"Gyokuro tea is grown beneath shading, cutting out some 85% of the sunlight. This allows the leaves to mature without obtaining bitterness. The results is an ultra delicate green tea with an extremely sweet taste profile"
"Black tea made in Japan is called "wakoucha", literally meaning "harmonious crimson tea" and translates to "Japanese black tea". (In Japan, black tea is labeled by the crimson color of the steeped tea rather than the black color of the dry leaves.) Most of these teas here are made with leaves from plants originally meant for green tea, but cultivated and processed for black tea"