Are Coffee Beans Organic? Reading Labels Alongside Tea Tasting Notes

Lupicia's Book 100 series gathers more than a hundred tea bags, and its popularity rankings put Kyoho grape, White Peach Oolong, TOKIO Tokyo Wild Berry and Cookie Tea near the top. Ceylon Dimbula and Darjeeling, including First Flush, Second Flush and Autumnal, show clear flavor differences within black tea.

The same label-reading habit matters when asking are coffee beans organic. Organic certification concerns farming and processing methods rather than flavor or roast level, so a certified bag simply documents how the crop was grown. For the Lupicia range, Nilgiri BOP and deep-steamed sencha show how grade and leaf style affect taste.

Japan's Lupicia Green Tea Garden is famous for its rich and diverse tea bag series, and its Book 100 series brings together over a hundred teas with distinct flavors. Starting from the popularity TOP 10 list, this article reviews signature items one by one, including Kyoho, White Peach Oolong, and TOKIO Tokyo Wild Berry, while also taking a deeper look at the flavor differences between Ceylon Dimbula and Darjeeling black tea, and analyzing the real performance of specialty teas such as Nilgiri, deep-steamed sencha, and cherry black tea. Whether you are a beginner just getting to know Lupicia or a veteran tea drinker looking for an everyday staple, this review can help you find the one that suits you best. Front Street Coffee will also combine tasting experience to share practical advice on selection and brewing.

The story of a hundred teas—what kind of day will today be? Some days are full of laughter, some days carry a little unease. No matter your mood, we hope you can find joy in a cup of tea. No two teas in the Book 100 series are exactly the same, and so each day will not repeat itself either. May these hundred teas become a touch of color in everyday life.

TOP 10 Kyoho #8224 Premium White Peach Oolong #8231 > White Peach Sencha #8284 TOKIO Tokyo Wild Berry Green #8506 COOKIE Cookie Tea #5537 THA BREAK Nilgiri #5113 Three-Layered Deep-Steamed Sencha #8031 Red Cherry #5223 > Green Cherry VERT #8234 Grapefruit #5219 Strawberry Vanilla #8502 HONEYNUSH #9002

NILGIRI BOP Nilgiri No. #4400 Officially recommended for making lemon tea. This tea bag is a standard-style Nilgiri black tea, with broken-leaf tea that has a full-bodied flavor, aromas reminiscent of green fruit and pasture grass, and a fairly mild taste.

TEA BREAK Nilgiri - Exceedingly Smooth #5113 (Recommended) This is the highest-level Nilgiri black tea, with a more outstanding, advanced performance compared with the BOP version #4400. It is made from carefully selected tea leaves with an extremely smooth mouthfeel, blended from multiple Nilgiri production areas in a golden ratio. The floral and fruity aromas are clearly distinguishable, and drinking it plain is thoroughly relaxing.

DAREELING 2nd Flush Second Flush Darjeeling #5001 (Recommended) The entire series includes three pure Darjeeling black teas: First Flush, Second Flush, and Autumnal. The First Flush version is a lightly oxidized black tea with obvious citrus-peel aroma, but it lacks durability across infusions and tastes rather one-dimensional. By contrast, this Second Flush Darjeeling uses better raw materials, with a rich, deep red liquor and a style close to wine tasting, coming from selected summer tea of the 87 professional organic estate. Lupicia praises this tea as the "Champagne of teas." All three flavored tea bags are better than ordinary commercial tea bags on the market, but this one is the most worth tasting.

MUSCAT DAREELING Muscat Darjeeling #5237 Using Darjeeling black tea as the base, flavoring is added to imitate fresh Muscat grapes. There is another tea in Lupicia's entire series, #5218, that fully presents Muscat grape flavor, with a heavier taste than this one and also more likely to become cloying. This flavored black tea, with Darjeeling as the base, retains Darjeeling's layering and refinement while adding the green Muscat grape aroma that people expect from a small-leaf black tea. Although it is clearly a flavored tea, the flavoring technique is quite excellent.

CEYLON DIMBULA Dimbula $5024 Among Sri Lanka's many tea-producing regions, Dimbula is a high-grade region with a distinctive character, very suitable for making milk tea, and highly memorable in flavor, with jasmine floral notes and orange-like fruity charm. Its taste, aroma, and liquor color all perform excellently, and the deep orange-red tea liquor is suitable whether drunk alone or with milk. However, Lupicia's entire series includes many black teas advertised for milk tea, including C.T.C., Assam, and Ceylon origin black teas, and only this one stands out; the others feel somewhat dispensable.

Tosa Niyodogawa Sencha Tosa #7421 Produced in Niyodogawa Town, located in the highlands of Kochi Prefecture, with superior raw material quality. This is a standard-style Japanese steamed green tea, with obvious mossy, bean, and vegetable aromas, and a prominent umami taste when drunk, exceeding the expectations for ordinary tea bag green tea.

Gokase Kamairicha Gokase #7403 Gokase Town still preserves the traditional taste and aroma of "kamairicha," similar to the pan-fired green tea commonly found in China, and is a "phantom Japanese tea" that accounts for less than 1% of Japan's production. The tea gardens are distributed across highlands at 500 to 800 meters above sea level, with tea fields stretching out like terraces. Because there are fewer pests, organic cultivation is also relatively easy. Pan-fired tea suppresses fermentation by roasting the tea leaves. This technique was introduced to Japan from China in the 15th century and has long been loved by the public as a "commoner's tea." It is said that once you smell its unique aroma called "kamaka," you will become deeply fascinated.

Deep-Steamed Sencha - Omaesama #8031 (Highly Recommended) "Omaesama" among sencha refers to おまえさま, carrying respect for the "honorable lord" and the other party. This rich deep-steamed sencha has a strong, sweet, and non-bitter three-beat rhythm, that is, three layers of flavor, making it a rich and sweet green tea. Based on the elegant, gentle flavor of Kagoshima's specialty Asatsuyu, it blends in the sweetness of Kyoto Okumidori Kabuki, adding depth to the overall flavor. It is well balanced overall, with a refreshing taste and no lingering aftertaste, suitable not only for people who drink a lot of tea every day, but also for those unaccustomed to Japanese tea.

Deep-Steamed Sencha - Ukiyo Ichi-bu Gori #8032 There are always trivial matters in life, and perhaps while drinking tea one can steal half a day of leisure and empty oneself in a moment of clarity. People are very small in this world, and many things are insignificant; it is better to simply enjoy a cup of tea—this tea's mood is probably something like that. The name is very special and leaves a deep impression. After drinking it, the roasted flavor feels relatively strong, like a very dry Kaga bocha, and also a bit like the taste of heavily fired second-flush tea.

Ichi Ni San #8835 (Recommended) A stem tea with a superior flavor, made from the stems of sencha, which can also be written as "Karigane." Made into roasted tea stems, it is suitable for drinking chilled, with brown rice and grain aromas, very pleasant, and very suitable with tea snacks. It is a food-pairing tea with fairly high acceptability.

SAKURAMBO Cherry Black Tea #5223 (Recommended) Using black tea as the base and paired with Japanese sweet cherries, it is rich in sweetness, sweet-and-sour, and quite charming and pleasant. Although it is cherry, it carries a slight green fruit peel note, but after combining with black tea it becomes very balanced, warm, and gentle. Female friends especially love this one, believing it is suitable for any afternoon tea occasion, whether drunk plain or as an iced drink.

SAKURAMBO VERT Cherry Black Tea #8234 (Recommended) The refreshing, fresh cherry aroma makes Japanese green tea more attractive, and it drinks more directly and simply, with a crisp, bright flavor and vibrant fresh greenness. It is generally praised by male friends and is also suitable as an iced drink.

MOMO White Peach Sencha #8284 (Recommended) Juicy, rich sweetness paired with fine green tea, refreshing and appealing, with a very fragrant Japanese white peach note; it is also enjoyable as an iced drink. It counts as a signature item.

MOMO Premium White Peach Oolong #8231 (Recommended) High-quality Taiwanese oolong tea scented with Japanese white peach aroma. The oolong tea selected here is of much better quality, because Lupicia's other oolong teas are really not very good; however, this oolong tea works quite well as a base and is even better than the sencha version. It should be a popular product.

Grapefruit Black Tea #5219 (Recommended) It is like eating a real grapefruit. Almost everyone can tell it has the citrusy grapefruit flesh sensation, while the black tea flavor gradually accompanies it. It feels like a quite natural fruit tea and is quite impressive. When drinking it, there is also a hint of Earl Grey, with slight fruit-peel bitterness, sweetness, and acidity—a charming black tea.

Kyoho Green Tea #8224 (Recommended) Signature, a must-buy. Delicious, no question about it. The base tea is green tea, with a rich, mellow grape aroma.

TOKIO #8506 (Highly Recommended) Green tea paired with the aroma of field berries, elegant and refined, with a bit of life's compactness and modernity, yet also with endlessly changing vitality. It is super suitable for iced tea. I quite like this formula with regional character and strong representativeness. It is also a signature popular product and worth buying.

COOKIE #5537 (Recommended) I originally thought it would be a disaster and was afraid to drink it for a while, but the plot turned around dramatically. Black tea scented with cookies has a strong buttery cookie and butter cake with black tea flavor, like milk foam placed on hot black tea. Surprisingly good.

STRAWBERRY & VANILLA #8502 (Recommended) A perfect artificial-chemical combination of strawberry and vanilla, with a dual-layer combination of matcha and green tea but not very obvious; the main note is strawberry ice cream, made super convincingly, and also sweet.

Sparkling Genmaicha #8806 (Recommended) KIRARA, with the meaning of mica, conveys a sparkling feeling. This sparkling genmaicha mixes rice and green tea and roasts them in an old-style direct-fire roasting pan. Then stone-ground matcha is added, giving the tea a deeper green color and a richer aroma. It is very standard and also a highly aromatic genmaicha green tea.

Matcha Black Soybean Genmaicha #8834 (Recommended) A tea made from a mixture of matcha, black soybeans, and rice has a mild taste with sweetness and nuttiness. The liquor is a bit cloudy, with a large amount of matcha powder. Overall it drinks very well, and the black soybean tea has no shortcomings either, but these raw materials are all very important to drink fresh.

HONEYBUSH #9002 Herbal tea honeybush. It is rare to be satisfied with herbal teas, and this one reaches its standard. The raw material comes from wild herbs in southern Africa, with honey aroma and a faint sweet aftertaste, very gentle and likable.

The above content is compiled by CoffeeHunters, a coffee news website.