#0370.S5 Kaneroku Matsumoto Tea Garden: Peach Wood Smoked Black Tea 燻製紅茶 桃Hiroki Matsumoto, the young farmer at Kaneroku Matsumoto Tea Garden is always challenging himself to create unique and unusual teas. His inspiration comes from the fact that many tea farmers around him in Shizuoka (perhaps, the best known prefecture for tea in Japan) are already making very good and high quality tea. While the focus of the generations before him was to sell cultivated tea to wholesalers, during his time as a tea farmer, Kaneroku

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The joy of savoring the seasons with all five senses—of smelling the rain

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this sencha was handpicked by Ayumi-san and a community of supporters from her fields in the mountains of Fujieda