Of Yarn and Tea
Yesterday my wife had a hunch for learning crochet so we went to a local...
Quality Matters
What is Orange Pekoe?
A Funny Name In the supermarket or your local teashop, you probably have come across...
Why does China export all those cheap teas?
and keep the good ones for themselves? The low price jasmine leaf tea and so-called gunpowder that one sees...
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...
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…
Quality Basics 1: Various Plants, Various Qualities
Four of the thousands of different tea tree cultivars employed for tea production in different...