Verdant Tea

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

What does Qianjiazhai taste like? Is it possible to convey a true, faithful sense of a place through taste, texture and aroma? These are the questi[...]

Weather in Laoshan is notoriously difficult for growing tea. The cold winters and hot summers are pushing the very boundary of where the tea plant can[...]