Gyokuro Moments with Tea People – Japan
Some sage and simple wisdom as always from those who spend time at the source, at the cup, and in the tea houses. Travel through some of Japan’s tea zones has been an immersion into more informality than expected. Always instructive are the farmers themselves or those who spend heaps of time within the gardens. They speak more truths about tea in a shorter period than any sales guru I’ve ever met. In a field of leaves that will become Sencha in Mie Prefecture. Expected was a