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Tea and Seasonality | How our rituals reflect the season
As summer turns again to fall, again our desire for warmth returns. The satisfaction we seek in a wool sweater or a hot cup of...
Three New Matcha - Diving deep to find the next great offering
(Our first time tasting Suiho Organic - unforgettable) I have seen such a remarkable growth in interest in Matcha over the last several years. Along...
Miyabi Sencha - 10 years sourcing our flagship Sencha
(Sourcing tea with the Yamaguchi family in 2014) If there is one tea that could define the last 10 years of Kettl, it would be...
JPN | NYC - Kettl’s footprint in Japan
(New York and Japan teams working together) We have just arrived back in Kurume, Fukuoka at our Japan office - right in time to spend...
Seven harvests with Kiyoharu Tsuji - Continuing progress, continuing excellence
2024 marks the seventh year of partnership with Kiyoharu Tsuji, one of the most decorated matcha producers in all of Japan and one of Zach's...
Tea x Cuisine
The dream is coming true. The well-worn path of derivative Western-minded tea culture is dying. Long live tea. Well, in fact, tea is very much...
2024 Sourcing - Miyazaki, Takanabe
You could do a lot worse than ending up in Miyazaki. It holds little acclaim to foreigner visitors aside from perhaps its famous beef -...
2024 - The New Harvest Begins
Greetings from our 2024 sourcing trip. While it is only the very beginning of the harvest season, with many areas yet to begin harvesting, my...
Shincha | Welcoming Spring
While Japan is a small country, roughly twenty-two of its forty-seven prefectures produce tea of some kind. Japan is home to a variety of microclimates...