Keita Watanabe and his family already started with shading their first tea garden parcels on the little island Yakushima in the very south of Japan, while in other parts of Japan snow was falling just some hours ago. Keita and Mankichi Watanabe produce mainly two kinds of shincha for us, which go on the way to Europe. One is the Watanabe Kabuse Shincha, which is characterized by the shading of the tea bushes before harvest and by a quite gentle […]
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