Verdant Tea

Tea craft starts in the fields. To really appreciate how tea tastes, you need to ask: how is tea grown? Planting and farming practices make the differ[...]

Most of the tea industry in Fuding relies on either greenhouse heat or actual applied heat to dry their tea quickly enough to stop it from oxidizing. [...]

Most roasted teas are simply baked to get that dark flavor. The electric ovens common in the industry might make roasting faster, but as Mr. Li explai[...]

Here's a musing - all tea is scented tea. It is easy to think of jasmine teas as different from “traditional” teas, but it's harder to draw a cl[...]

What’s the oldest tea brewing style? Basically, simply drinking out of a mug. Some Americans call it "Grandpa style," but really in China people jus[...]

Types of tea are defined by the craft of the producer. Through craft, the very same types of tea leaves can be transformed into all kinds of unique ty[...]

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[...]

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[...]