Verdant Tea

Wondering how to brew chai tea? Learn everything about making chai tea, including creating your own chai spice blend and finding the perfect base tea.[...]

Don’t listen to tea snobs who tell you that milk and tea do not go together. The best teas in the world taste beautiful, no matter how you choose to[...]

Over hundreds of years, people realized that tea was sweeter and more delicious with processing than it was fresh or simply dried. Now, this insight i[...]

We talked to fermentation expert, beverage consultant, and owner of Prohibition Kombucha Nate Uri to learn how to choose the best tea for kombucha bre[...]

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[...]