Taiwan Tea Company Uses Steve Jobs [fake] to Sell Tea
A Taiwanese tea company uses a fake Steve Jobs to advertise it’s Tong Yi Cha!
read more »Small Tea Farmers in Sri Lanka
One of the highlights of the tea expo for me was meeting the consulate general of Sri Lanka to the US, Asoka Godawita. His pride for his country and the hardworking tea farmers there overwhelmed me. Sri Lanka’s tumultuous past has made it difficult to travel there for the reason of buying tea. The insurgency [...]
read more »Change your mind, new tea origins are coming…
Its time to change your mind and stop comparing teas back to original varietals and accept them as their own. As in wine, we don’t drink wine from California and say– “this is not as good as wine from France” rather, we accept it as being different and we bask in the colors of this [...]
read more »A First Taste of New Zealand Oolong
There is a certain scent that I often smell when in the wilderness, the freshness of the open air coming down from the mountains, the cool feeling of the wind carrying this scent through the trees — the smell of New Zealand. I have traveled to both the North and South islands of this beautiful [...]
read more »Kenyan Tea Prices at Record High
Reuters reported this week that Kenyan tea prices were at a record high, mostly from concerns that the next harvest will be bad due to foretasted bad weather. Read the full report here [http://af.reuters.com/article/investingNews/idAFJOE59I0R720091019].
read more »Daniel Hong on the Processing of Tie Guan Yin
This was posted a while back but I wanted to share this great article by Daniel Hong of Hong Teas about the processing of Tie Guan Yin (TGY) tea. His stories and photos are fascinating, and anyone that has tried this wonderful tea will enjoy them. For those of you not familiar with this tea, [...]
read more »The Manufacturing of Tea in India
In 1883, Edward Money published this great work on the state of the tea industry in India. He goes into the different regions of India, how to set up a tea garden, grow the tea, harvest the tea, process the tea. Everything you’ve ever wanted to know! Here are some photo excerpts: The best part [...]
read more »A Visit to the BOH Tea Plantation in Malaysia
This past July I was backpacking through Malaysia and was able to visit the largest tea plantation in Southeast Asia-the BOH tea plantation. It was a great experience. There were rows and rows of tea plants as far as the eye could see. I took a tour of the processing plant and was able to [...]
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