What are the famous brands of tea in Japan? what is the origin and history of Japanese black tea?

Japanese tea has a history of more than 800 years, but Japanese black tea was not born until 1874. In order to obtain foreign currency, the Meiji government began to encourage tea farmers to produce black tea, so all black tea was sold for export.

In 1876, Shizuoka Prefecture sent two professionals to Assam to learn how to make black tea, and after returning to Japan, they taught farmers everywhere.

In 1878, Japan finally introduced its own black tea, which was widely praised after being exported to Britain and Australia. However, it later exported inferior tea, which caused the evaluation of Japanese black tea to plummet. Finally, Japan also gave up black tea as a commodity.

Until 1995, some Japanese tea farmers began trial planting and caused discussion.

In 2000, there were only about 30 black tea producers in Japan, but today there are more than 600 tea plantations from Okinawa to Aomori in the north.

[Yubu North]

Yabukita is a typical Japanese green tea plant, and the quality of the tea made is recognized. It is reported that 45% of Japanese tea farmers cultivate this variety of tea trees.

This variety of tea aroma is weak, but the flavor is strong, used to make black tea astringent taste weak, the overall flavor is round, without any seasoning direct drinking is also quite smooth.

[Red Riches]

The fermented tea made from Darjeeling Chinese species and Assam species is rich in catechins and can extract strong astringency with black tea characteristics.

The aroma is similar to Darjeeling tea, with musk grape and green apple interwoven aromas, tea color bias bright red.

There are three main producing areas of Japanese tea: Shizuoka Prefecture, Niigata Prefecture and Kagoshima Prefecture.

[Shizuoka Prefecture]

Green tea is the main production area, accounting for half of Japan's total production. It is also the place where Japan first tried to grow black tea, and it is the most traditional Japanese black tea producing place.

[Niigata Prefecture]

This was originally the northernmost tea-producing area in Japan, but due to the global greenhouse effect, tea can now be grown in Aomori Prefecture. Murakami black tea is currently available, made from native tea plants.

[Kagoshima Prefecture]

Kyushu tea production in one of the most productive places, jade dew, fried tea, tea and pot fried tea are very famous, in recent years also began to make black tea.