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Stone-Ground vs Machine-Ground Matcha: Does It Really Matter?
By Christian Mauerer, founder of One with Tea · Reviewed August 2026 The honest answer: the grinding method changes the powder, but it does not by itself make a matcha good. A slow granite stone mill grinds matcha into particles...
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Japanese Tea Cultivars: The Plants Behind Matcha and Green Tea
By Christian Mauerer, founder of One with Tea · Reviewed August 2026 A cultivar is a tea plant bred for a particular set of traits and then cloned by cuttings, so every bush is genetically the same. Japan grows around...
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