On Mar 8, 12:50*pm, Salsero > wrote:

> Curious about it as an oddity, a group of us shared some of their
> "Koucha," a *"Japanese Broken Leaf Black Tea," that was really very
> nice. *I never imagined that any blacks came out of Japan, especially
> not of such high quality.

"Koucha," (could also be romanized as "kootya," for example) is the
Japanese word for what we call black tea. I have *never* heard of
black tea being produced in Japan (and Japan is my particular
interest). Is it possible that that lot of tea was simply something
produced for the Japanese market? They *do* drink a lot of black tea
there, after all...