Tag: UNYTea
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The Black and White of Benifuki
Benifuki is an interesting Japanese tea tree cultivar. For one, it’s a cross between a cultivar heralding from the assamica variety, and another cultivar of the sinensis variety. A cross-breeding of this sort was to create a high-yielding cultivar designed for black tea and oolong production. Back in the 1960s, and even further back, Japan…
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Once Bug-Bitten, Twice Shy
Well . . . I guess it’s time to put a certain theory to pasture. And it’s all because of these two. Who are they? I’ll get to that. What theory? Oh, I had this hypothesis that tea and dating (or courtship, whatever) didn’t “blend”.