Elite Artisan tea producers maintain many advantages over the large Agribusiness lowland farms that make commodity machine-processed ingredients for bags, ready-to-drink and iced teas. These start with the…
Sri Lanka is such a cute country and its central hilly parts may perhaps be described as a tea-drinkers heaven. The fertile and lush mountains are crisscrossed by…
Many tea-lovers find tea-tasting inaccessible and its jargon off-putting. They recognize its utility but only faintly understand the details. In a career that spans three decades, I have…
There is no typical Darjeeling. The teas are marked by variety, range in price from single to triple digit dollar tags, and have increasingly different leaf characteristics and…
Men may have traded, stolen and grown tea but women have made significant social and cultural contributions to the industry. Here are three women who have had a…
When you think of tea, it’s as dried leaves that need water to brew in. In many regards, the history of tea was the other way round. Water…
One of the unique places in the world for tea is Gaiman, Argentina. This is the center of a community in the Chabut region, descended from a ship…
Here’s an image showing two different teas: whole leaf and dust used in the tea bag. Both are in the same broad price range: 25-40 cents a cup for…