Review: Ippodo´s Matcha “Horai-no-mukashi”

Well, Matcha, right….i didn´t have any good Matcha for a long time, although my love for greens started with a matcha kit. The tea that came with it was Keiko´s “Kabuse No.1″ which i prepared totally wrong…and then was forgotten forever, in some kitchen cupboard.With my knowledge on tea growing and having had loads of [...]

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Christmas Special: Raku Chawans from Artist Janus Gunder (Bronzeart)

So here they are…my first real unicum, handmade chawans.
I was surfing up and down the web looking at new teaware for decades. Found a nice piece here and there, but mostly they were too expensive. Plus there wasn´t too much good Raku stuff from Japan, i could find. So i put my focus on local [...]

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