Where come from Ippodos teas?

[Fireflower]

i purhcased hose and kaboku but i did'nt understood from where they comes (kyoto?)
in the website i think that there is not this informations
thx!

[Chip]

i purhcased hose and kaboku but i did'nt understood from where they comes (kyoto?)
in the website i think that there is not this informations
thx!

Ippodo does a lot of blending which is their specialty. My understanding was that they used Uji teas.

[Chip]

Linkie ... Kyoto and surrounding areas. So could include Uji which is located in Kyoto prefecture. But Ippodo is based in Kyoto City.

http://www.ippodo-tea.co.jp/en/about/index.html

[TIM]

Tekiro Gyokuro from Ippodos. Uji.

[fire_snake]

Tekiro Gyokuro from Ippodos. Uji.

Where'd you get that teaware? Looks fantastic.

[Fireflower]

i purhcased hose and kaboku but i did'nt understood from where they comes (kyoto?)
in the website i think that there is not this informations
thx!

Ippodo does a lot of blending which is their specialty. My understanding was that they used Uji teas.

just an information, a blend have to be considered "better" or "better" is tea that comes from a unique farm?
i know that usually blend is not considered better but i don't know if is the case of tea.

[Oni]

Most of the japanese tea vendors are the blenders of their own tea, this means that they buy tea in aracha - 80% processed tea form at the harvest time, usually from their trusted sources, and they blend their usual recipes for each quality category, and each year they try to produce the same quality tea, but Hibiki-an and Maiko, horaido, Marukyu-Koyamaen have their own farms, as I know hibiki has all the tea from their own farms, they harvest it and process it, so it is certain that they do not mix tea from other regions to their UJI tea.

[Kevangogh]

According to Japanese law, in order to label a tea as "Uji", it must contain at least 50% Uji tea. The same applies to teas in any other area. Uji doesn't have that much land area so this is important.

Nothing wrong with blending tea.