Verdant Tea

Although loose leaf tea is not perishable, tea does expire. Luckily, expired tea is something you can avoid if you know what to look for and how to st[...]

Fresh tea season is here! With rich, sweet aromatic fresh teas coming in from the He Family in Laoshan and Li Xiaoping in Dragonwell, you might be won[...]

What does floral mean in tea? Big aromatics that blossom on the palate and linger long after every sip. These can range from tropical orchid to deep r[...]

The yixing pot is surprisingly “faithful” to the tea, bringing in all the aromatics and textural complexity that you get out of porcelain, but end[...]

The best value in porcelain teaware comes from De Hua, the site of dozens of ancient kilns that rivaled Jingdezhen. While Jingdezhen porcelain’s fir[...]

In tea, "minerality" is our way of understanding a unique texture and physical sensation on the palate that is tingling and precise while being soft a[...]

Over the last decade, Master Zhang has reclaimed the majority of the mountainside above Daping for bamboo, evergreens and wildflowers. The rocky terra[...]

It is no secret that aroma contributes more to the “taste” experience of tea (and everything else) than taste itself. Today’s tea spotlight is d[...]

What makes a tea cultivar worth growing? A single farmer believing in that varietal, making the choice to devote the extra labor and care to sharin[...]