Only 2 oolongs are on the list of the 10 most famous Chinese teas: Da Hong Pao (’Big Red Robe‘) and Ti Guan Yin (’Iron Goddess of Mercy‘), both originally from Fujian Province. Both come from Fujian Province, Da Hong Pao (DHP) from Wuyi Shan in Northern Fujian and Ti Guan Yin (TGY) from Anxi […]
This is a post I have been planning to write for a long time (I wrote the first part in this mini series about teapots in July last year). One of the reasons this post was such a long time in the making is that the seemingly easy subject of tea cups is quite a […]
As I hinted at in my last post, we have recently received a few new teas and I have experimented rather excessively with some of them. On the top of my experimentation list was an exquisite organic Phoenix oolong from Guandong Province, China. Phoenix oolongs (named after their production area, the ‘Phoenix Mountains’), also known […]
I have just realized that it’s been a long time since my last tea digest and I think it is time to keep you informed about the latest research findings on tea.
The news are all overwhelmingly positive for tea drinkers like yourself. Reading through a deluge of new research publications, one thing becomes instantly clear: […]
While our Organic Sencha has never been a tea that a lot of our customers ordered without my recommendation, it is one of those teas that deeply impresses people when they try it. I’m very fond of this tea myself (after searching a considerable amount of time for a source of reliably high quality […]