Here’s a simple thought exercise. Imagine a standard cup of fresh brewed tea, with a sugar bowl beside it. Pick up the spoon and start adding sugar. One…
What’s the difference between Chinese and Japanese green tea? A brief look at the key distinguishing features of green tea from these two countries. The history books tell…
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…