tea economy – Tea Guardian

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...

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…

An English trader in a tea hong in Guangzhou, 1820

Black tea category / Nature of tea

2014.08.12

Black Tea: Origin & Production

Etymology 30 years after the first commercial import of 143 pounds of tea, Britain setup...

Black tea category / Nature of tea

2014.08.12

Black Tea: Between Teabag and Hand-rolled Whole-Leaves

Black Tea, aka Hong Cha, i.e. Red Tea (1), is the most consumed tea category...