Oolongs: Production
The principal of oolong production involves scratching the leaves for gradual and slight breakage of...
Tea Guardian Fine Tea Commentaries and Reference Guide
Oolongs: Tasting & Buying Tips
This is an effective sales technique but a very bad tasting approach. No tea can show its real character infused for less than 20 seconds, unless it is broken or worse, like a teabag. The reason for a quick wash is only to hide…
Oolongs: Tea Plants & Major Regions
There is a wide-spread theory in the West thinking that all teas are produced from the same tea plant, Camellia sinensis. The fact is, there are so many variants of…
Oolongs: the Gran Cru of Teas
Fine oolongs make up a tea category of the most diverse tastes and aromas. Theirs are by far the most potent, distinct, and enjoyable in all fine teas. The various production styles and large range of…
Green Tea Production: Baking
Using heat to dry tea is as old as, if not older than, the method...
Green Tea Production: Roasting
There have not been any reliable recent audit yet but wok roasting (note) is definitely the...
Green Tea Production: Steaming
Steaming is the tea production process with the longest documented history, although surely not the oldest. The...
Green Tea Production: Sun-drying
This is the same thing that most civilizations have done with their food since before...
Green Tea: Tasting and Health Notes
Green teas are very different from black teas in material nature and one key difference in tasting is...
White Tea: Health & Buying tips
Three teas from exactly the same cultivar, but are different in nature; only one is...