Kimberley's Kyusu
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Hi, I'm Kimberley, I'm the tea nerd/enthusiast behind Kimberley's Kyusu. This blog is dedicated to everything tea and my main aim with it is to try and cover every single aspect of the tea world. I started this blog because I wanted a creative outlet that I could use to channel my love for tea and help me learn more about it.
Kimberley's Kyusu
1M ago
This Matcha Monday, I want to introduce you to Nagatani Tea & their Premium Ceremonial Grade, Ujitawara Tenmyo Matcha. This matcha uses a new and rather rare cultivar by the name of Tenmyo which was registered in 2006 and cultivated from a seed of the Samidori cultivar in Uji, Kyoto, with the other parent being ..read more
Kimberley's Kyusu
2M ago
This single cultivar Hime Midori Matcha is from Chiyonoen Tea Garden, a small tea garden operated by husband and wife farmers Masashi and Eri Harashima deep in the mountains of Yabe Village, Fukuoka, Japan. It is a 3rd generation farm that specialises in high grade mountain-grown sencha and gyokuro, established by his grandfather and the ..read more
Kimberley's Kyusu
3M ago
Kiroku Tea Garden is a fourth generation tea garden in Wazuka Japan, an area whose mountain tea fields & undulating terraced slopes thick with fog make perfect tea-growing conditions. It was founded nearly 100 years ago, before farming machines became available & their grandfather cleared their fields completely by hand. Today they are owned entirely ..read more
Kimberley's Kyusu
4M ago
Just over nine years have passed since I started this blog and throughout all of that time, I have been able to sip my way through many a matcha, the majority of which were single cultivar matchas sourced from many different locations throughout Japan. Those experiences have been able to help me learn about the ..read more
Kimberley's Kyusu
6M ago
We’ve quickly found ourselves at the end of September already which means that it’s time for another instalment of the Garden Glimpses series, with just one more after this to finish off the year. If you are yet to read any of the previous instalments of this series, now is the perfect time to catch ..read more
Kimberley's Kyusu
6M ago
It may be autumn now, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to stop drinking green tea altogether, especially when they are as delicious as this Ayumi Farms, Handpicked (Ultra Micro Lot) Shizuoka Sencha is. The leaves are a jewel toned green and slightly glossy in texture, and have an aroma that is fantastically complex with ..read more
Kimberley's Kyusu
7M ago
Am I about to review another Azuma Tea Farms Matcha? Of course I am, because I will not be able to stop until I’ve tried and reviewed each and every single one, which I’m getting closer and closer to achieving as time goes by. You would think that by now I would have found one ..read more
Kimberley's Kyusu
7M ago
If you have read any of my posts featuring teas from Ippodo, you’ll know that I have been completely & utterly blow away by all of the Ippodo teas I have tried so far. I am always excited to try more of them because I know I am in for such a fantastic experience. Today ..read more
Kimberley's Kyusu
7M ago
I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again, if you want to learn about tea and train your palette to be able to pick out the nuances and subtle differences then comparison tastings are the perfect learning tool for you. Since I started doing them a few years ago, I have learned so much ..read more
Kimberley's Kyusu
8M ago
We’re already coming to the end of July & it’s time for the latest instalment of the Garden Glimpses series. We’ve previously covered Azuma Tea Garden, Tarui Tea Farm & Tea Farm Mitocha, and today we will be taking a deep dive into the world of Ayumi Farms (Cyittorattu). In 2019 Ayumi Kinezuka established Cyittorattu ..read more