Quality & Variety Guide – Page 2

Pu'er tea varieties and other dark teas / Tea varieties / White tea varieties

2015.09.01

Laos Shengcha

As discussed in a few other articles in this site, shengcha pu’er is very similar...

Oolong varieties / Quality & Variety Guide

2015.08.19

Wuyi Meizhan

Aaron, a proactive young man from U.S. who has been working for some years in...

Pu'er tea varieties and other dark teas / Quality & Variety Guide / White tea varieties

2015.07.20

Bulang Shengcha Pu’er

Bulang Shan ( Chinese: 布朗山 ) — Mountain of the Bulang people — is not...

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters

2015.04.01

On Names

An expensive “restaurant tea” A few years ago I saw a nice tin can by...

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters

2015.03.18

Understanding Blends, Single Origins, Single Harvests, etc

It’s understood but a taboo in the trade to talk about. When concepts are muddled, it...

Oolong varieties / Quality & Variety Guide / Tea varieties

2014.11.26

Song Cultivar Huangzhi Xiang Dancong

What is a Dancong? Dancong — literally “single bush” — is traditionally the way to process...

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters

2014.11.17

How Fair is Fair Trade?

Shantile, 23, who’s been picking tea leaves in a Fair Trade tea estate in Sri Lanka for...

Japanese chef passing tea qualification test in Hong Kong

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters

2014.09.30

Quality Basics 4: The Interpretation

Unlike wine, which can be consumed quite directly pouring from a bottle, tea has to be...

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters

2014.09.30

Quality Basics 3: The Myths of Grades

quality grades There is a Western grading system given to conventional black tea productions basing...

Workman checking evenness of twist-forming of the steamed tealea

Quality & Variety Guide / Quality Matters

2014.09.30

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…