Laos Shengcha
As discussed in a few other articles in this site, shengcha pu’er is very similar...
Quality & Variety Guide
Wuyi Meizhan
Aaron, a proactive young man from U.S. who has been working for some years in...
Bulang Shengcha Pu’er
Bulang Shan ( Chinese: 布朗山 ) — Mountain of the Bulang people — is not...
On Names
An expensive “restaurant tea” A few years ago I saw a nice tin can by...
Understanding Blends, Single Origins, Single Harvests, etc
It’s understood but a taboo in the trade to talk about. When concepts are muddled, it...
Song Cultivar Huangzhi Xiang Dancong
What is a Dancong? Dancong — literally “single bush” — is traditionally the way to process...
How Fair is Fair Trade?
Shantile, 23, who’s been picking tea leaves in a Fair Trade tea estate in Sri Lanka for...
Quality Basics 4: The Interpretation
Unlike wine, which can be consumed quite directly pouring from a bottle, tea has to be...
Quality Basics 3: The Myths of Grades
quality grades There is a Western grading system given to conventional black tea productions basing...
Quality Basics 2: The Production Process
The making that makes the difference:
Very often one would hear that the different kinds of tea is a result of different degrees of fermentation. This is only partially true…