Chicago Tea Tasting

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Had a great tea tasting for my company, Chicago Tea Garden in January. If you live in the Chicago area and would like to attend a tasting, please signup here. Thanks to Flickr user faraocious for taking these awesome photos! view the whole set by foraocious here.

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Tea Culture

Posted on January 31st, 2012 Written by Tony Gebely

Chicago Tea Garden First to Import New Zealand Tea to the USA

Tea lovers in the United States will have their first chance to try New Zealand’s only tea, Zealong, beginning on June 28, 2010, when Chicago Tea Garden makes it available to its retail and wholesale customers. Zealong began in 1996 when its owners planted imported Taiwanese seedlings on their New Zealand farm. Only 130 of [...]

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Tea Culture

Posted on June 29th, 2010 Written by Tony Gebely

Open for business: Chicago Tea Garden…

I am proud to announce that our company, Chicago Tea Garden is finally open for business. We have 9 teas from David Lee Hoffman’s Phoenix Collection to start and some local tea-ware from Chicago Potter — Chris Chaney. Lainie Petersen has written a wonderful article on us as the Chicago Tea Examiner, see it here. [...]

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Tea Reviews

Posted on March 2nd, 2010 Written by Tony Gebely

A Long Time Coming…

Its been a long time coming, but I am finally starting my own tea company. Things are in the late stages, teas have been sourced, packaging is finalized. I’m just working on the web site at this time, so if there is anything that annoys you about tea shop sites, please let me know asap! [...]

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Tea Culture

Posted on January 26th, 2010 Written by Tony Gebely

Chicago's Chinatown – Not a tea mecca.

I set out about two weeks ago to explore Chicago’s Chinatown — just off the Cermak-Chinatown Red Line stop. I hoped to find tiny tea-houses tucked away off the main streets, tea importers, tea shops — I hoped to find a mecca of tea right in my own city. However, I found none of this. [...]

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Tea Culture

Posted on August 10th, 2009 Written by Tony Gebely

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