Keiko tea?

[malmstrom]

Hi all!!

That's my first post here! I love green tea (expecially Japanese), but I'm a novice!!
I would like to recive suggestions about keiko tea? The catalogue is quite rich, what do you think about?!

Thanks in advance!
Marco

P.S. For completeness, here there's the catalogue:

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Thank you,
Chip
Tea drinker who happens to Moderate

[Chip]

Welcome to TeaChat.

I visited the Keiko booth at the WTE in 2008. They had some good teas, but it is hard to draw a conclusion regarding them since their teas are not readily available nor currently sought out here in the USA. As a result, they are a rather obscure supplier.
Here is a link ... http://www.keikotee.de/images/Katalog_2007.pdf

This appears to be a German distributor? I wonder if the teas are routed through Germany or shipped directly to the USA? Germany has the highest testing standards for agricultural contamination possible in the world.

[Bert]

Hi there,

I'm from Germany and Keiko tea is lightly obtainable here. Even most of teaware ceramics available like kyusus and yunomis are provided by them. Their main tea is the kabuse no. 1.

[Chip]

Hi there,

I'm from Germany and Keiko tea is lightly obtainable here. Even most of teaware ceramics available like kyusus and yunomis are provided by them. Their main tea is the kabuse no. 1.

Coincidentally, I got a 50 or 100 gram box of the Kabuse #1 at the Expo.

[malmstrom]

Thanks a lot for the response!!!

Here in Italy, is very difficult to find keiko-teas, but you can order directly from them (with 100 euros order you can benefit for free shipping). The catalogue is quite vast but the price for the teas above kambuse n°1 are very high!!!

I think that their choise is quite intresting also beacause they are all organic. I've tried sencha, kambuse n°2 and n°1 and I found the latter the n°2 the better for quality/ratio (expecially the 250g bulk).

It's a shame that the site is all in german and doesn't help for understanding the differencies among the various teas they offer!

Later I will post the guideline for brewing of their teas, It could be intresting!!

[J.]

Keiko is a German compagny that owns a teayard in southern japan.
They produce quite good and not expensive kabuse cha.

In Belgium, we can find keiko teasin nearly every teashops.

[Bert]

The teas ranged above the Kabuse no. 1 are harvested from mid april to end of the month. The teas differ a bit between their harvest time and their processing (degree of steaming and drying).

Kabuse no. 1 itself is harvested in may, no. 2 in june, sencha no. 3 in july.