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Whats your input on Obubu's Senchambishop wrote:Obubu's Sencha of the Spring Sun. Also my new teapot
Funny, I was just checking out their site ... again. They have so much going on there, I get a bit overwhelmed and never ordered.JeiKun4114 wrote: Whats your input on Obubu's SenchaI've been eying there Kabuse Sencha for a while now. Nice Pics
Chip wrote:Funny, I was just checking out their site ... again. They have so much going on there, I get a bit overwhelmed and never ordered.JeiKun4114 wrote: Whats your input on Obubu's SenchaI've been eying there Kabuse Sencha for a while now. Nice Pics
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I like their teas quite a bit. I had the Sencha of the Wind, which is sort of like a mix between a regular sencha, and a kabuse sencha, because it is covered but not as long as kabuse, I don't believe.JeiKun4114 wrote: Whats your input on Obubu's SenchaI've been eying there Kabuse Sencha for a while now. Nice Pics
Thank you for your input mbishopmbishop wrote:I like their teas quite a bit. I had the Sencha of the Wind, which is sort of like a mix between a regular sencha, and a kabuse sencha, because it is covered but not as long as kabuse, I don't believe.JeiKun4114 wrote: Whats your input on Obubu's SenchaI've been eying there Kabuse Sencha for a while now. Nice Pics
Sencha of the spring sun is very good, one of the better senchas I've had in a while. Great balance in sweetness and bitterness. Their teas are relatively cheap too, considering the shipping is included in the price, and they have lots of sales (through their mailing list/facebook page)
Thats is all correctChip wrote:So, all Orubu's sencha is aracha, and they sell a lot of later harvests, and the 15 samples are all in clear plastic bags?![]()
It took around 5 or more trips to the site for me to figure this out.![]()
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There tea is aracha, yes. What do you mean by they sell a lot of late harvest? They have 4 "top" teas, and then 3 "summer and fall" harvests, then bancha, hojicha, and genmaicha. Plus some others (matcha, etc)Chip wrote:So, all Orubu's sencha is aracha, and they sell a lot of later harvests, and the 15 samples are all in clear plastic bags?![]()
It took around 5 or more trips to the site for me to figure this out.![]()
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Indeed, their website (the English one) is somewhat hit and miss when it comes to working links.Chip wrote: Aracha is OK, as long as buyers know the difference between fully processed sencha and aracha (the link for the aracha description was not working when I tried it today). Aracha is unsorted (the small photo does not illustrate this), thus will have veins and stems in it as well as leaf pieces of every size imaginable.
Aracha has also NOT received the final quick roast as a fully processed sencha will. So, it is really quite different from regular sencha. I think they could do a better job of alerting potential buyers.
Most vendors specializing in Japanese teas won't even bother 3rd and 4th harvests, yet this seller romanticizes these teas with names like Summer Sun and Autumn Moon. Again, I am not going to prejudge, just bears watching.
COOL!Ambrose wrote:yup sir on the way now