I love green tea and thought this post and photos were just so beautiful I had to share! Subarashi desu!
This is just a short post (and photo dump) for a delicious hand-rolled tea I received as a gift last week.
In Japan, there are farmers who produce hand-rolled tea, usually in small amounts and sold at premium pricing.
Also, as I have previously posted, some even offer the hands-on experience to visitors, at a fee.
However, in most tea regions there is a ‘cha temomi hozonkai’, or Tea Hand-rolling Preservation Society. This is usually a group of experienced tea masters who strive to preserve the traditional method of rolling tea, which is by hand instead of using machines.
On pricing, let me give you an example of what premium could be. In this year’s first new tea auction held in Shizuoka City last week, a kilo of hand-rolled green tea from Fujinomiya, made in collaboration with the Fujinomiya Tea Hand-rolling Preservation Society, fetched a whopping 1,968,000 yen.
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