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Curious Cultivars: Oolong Tea Tasting [Japanese Oolongs and Dan Cong]

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Curious Cultivars: Oolong Tea Tasting [Japanese Oolongs and Dan Cong]

My interest was most certainly piqued when I saw that my favourite teahouse in Helsinki, TeeMaa, was putting on a tea tasting of Japanese oolongs. Oolong teas are unusual in Japan, a country most famously known for its green teas. So I was very intrigued to taste some Japanese oolongs. Plus we were going to taste them alongside a favourite category of oolongs for me, Dan Cong.

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Matcha Tea Tasting: Uji, Fukuoka, Nishio

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In my Matcha 101 blog I wrote about the four main Matcha producing regions in Japan. Matcha has a very distinctive vegetal and savoury (umami) taste. And each region further adds its own unique flavour which is influenced by the growing environment – its climate, landscape and soil. In this post I compare Matcha from three of the regions – Uji, Fukuoka, and Nishio.

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Matcha workshop at TeeMaa teahouse

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I have found a beautiful, tranquil little teahouse in the heart of Helsinki specialising in Chinese teas! TeeMaa teahouse is run by a lovely woman from Hunan. They are doing a series of tea workshops, and the first one I attend is actually about a Japanese tea! Matcha is a Japanese green tea in fine powder form. It’s used in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony where the whole tea leaf is consumed. 

 

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