10/05/2026
Sipping Spring 🌿
The very first leaves of the year. Kondōwase shincha from Mariko, Shizuoka — hand-picked by Oscar Brekell on day one of the April harvest, the earliest tea on all of Honshū.
What makes it strange and beautiful: the cultivar carries a partly Indian genome. So instead of the usual green-tea grammar, you get lilacs, exotic fruit and a bittersweet edge that lingers like late afternoon light.
Spring, distilled and shipped from Munich.
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