Yunomi Dojo – Quick Lesson: What do producers do to create higher quality green tea? - Yunomi.life

Yunomi Dojo – Quick Lesson: What do producers do to create higher quality green tea?

Asako Inoue
Photo: marumaru / PIXTA There are many things that farmers, processing factories, and finishing factories can do to create better flavor in a green...
Yunomi Dojo – Quick Lesson: What do producers do to create higher quality green tea? - Yunomi.life

Yunomi Dojo – Quick Lesson: What do producers do to create higher quality green tea?

Asako Inoue
Photo: marumaru / PIXTA There are many things that farmers, processing factories, and finishing factories can do to create better flavor in a green...
What regulations are involved in importing organic tea from Japan? - Yunomi.life

What regulations are involved in importing organic tea from Japan?

Ian Chun
When importing organic food, it is important to understand that each country has their own regulations governing the use the term "organic" in the ...
4 Types of Kyusu (Japanese tea pots) - Yunomi.life

4 Types of Kyusu (Japanese tea pots)

Yunomi Staff
If you are not sure of the differences in the types of kyusu ("tea pot" in Japanese), here is a quick guide! 1. Yokode no kyusu (横手の急須) Shop Jinsui...

Tips on starting a tea business - Use a spreadsheet to map out your cashflow

Ian Chun
Download Online Tea Business Cashflow Template (Excel document) Open Online Tea Business Cashflow Template (Google Sheets...so be sure to make you...
Key statistics about Japanese tea agriculture - Yunomi.life

Key statistics about Japanese tea agriculture

Ian Chun
Statistics from Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries' report of the state of the tea agriculture industry. 44,000 hectares of ...
2016 Statistics on Tea Production in Japan - Yunomi.life

2016 Statistics on Tea Production in Japan

Ian Chun
The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has just released data on 2016 production of tea in Japan. PDF report can be downloade...
Pesticide Residues in Japanese tea - government regulations, positive list system - Yunomi.life

Pesticide Residues in Japanese tea - government regulations, positive list system

Ian Chun
I have always found it very frustrating that no one seems to know much about pesticide residue regulations (both as a buyer and a seller). Japanes...
Japan's tea production volume and area - Yunomi.life

Japan's tea production volume and area

Ian Chun
Year Area (hectares) Total production (tons; dry, unrefined leaf) Ooicha (shaded teas; tons) Sencha (tons) Tamaryokucha (tons) Bancha (tons) Oth...
How matcha is made - Yunomi.life

How matcha is made

Ian Chun
This is a quick primer on matcha production. We learned all of this because we work with both tea farms and tea factories. Matcha from small-scale...
How to judge the quality of green tea - Yunomi.life

How to judge the quality of green tea

Ian Chun
By Ricardo Caicedo of MyJapaneseGreenTea.com (edited by Ian Chun) You don't have to be an expert tea taster to tell if a Japanese green tea is of g...
Comparison of tea liquor color based on different steeping temperatures - Yunomi.life

Comparison of tea liquor color based on different steeping temperatures

Ian Chun
I have always been amazed at the difference in color that arises when you steep a deep-steamed tea (fukamushicha) for the first time at low water t...
The difference between Gyokuro, Kabusecha, Sencha, and Bancha green teas - Yunomi.life

The difference between Gyokuro, Kabusecha, Sencha, and Bancha green teas

Yunomi Staff
The difference between Gyokuro, Kabusecha, Sencha, and Bancha green teas from Japan is best understood through the leaf itself--its cultivation, ha...
Breakdown of tea plant cultivars most commonly grown in Japan - Yunomi.life

Breakdown of tea plant cultivars most commonly grown in Japan

Ian Chun
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries publishes regular reports about the tea industry (in Japanese). And the May 2016 report had a breakdown of the tea plant cultivars most common grown in Japan as of 2014.

How to choose Japanese tea

By partnering with a hundred plus artisanal Japanese tea farms and factories, we offer hundreds of green teas, and dozens of matcha, black tea, oolong tea, etc. Where do you start?

We recomend starting with Sampler Sets!