Adagio Teas’ Roots Campaign, which has been operating for the past two years, was created for the purpose of connecting tea drinkers more directly with information about the producers of the teas they drink. More than a dozen tea growers have been featured so far, providing Adagio’s customers additional insight into the people who comprise [...]
Confining scope to just the teas of China, it seems to me that tea drinkers in the United States tend not to approach green teas with the same level of seriousness that they afford rare aged pu’er teas or high quality oolongs. But there are indeed some fabulous and exquisite green teas from China, some [...]
The third and final part of my interview with Nigel Melican is now posted on Cha Dao. Excerpted: Cinnabar: The attempts at growing one place’s regionally-specific tea in a different location seem strange to me, because if you’re taking a type of tea varietal and growing it somewhere else, with a totally different climate and [...]
The second part of my interview with Nigel Melican is now available for you to read on Cha Dao. Excerpted: Cinnabar: I guess there are really two focuses of organic farming. I wasn’t even thinking about how it affects the end product, because it seems like that’s not the same conversation. The impact on the [...]
Tonight: Kuradashi Sencha, from Den’s Tea. Possibly Related Posts: Chado: The Way of Tea, at ArtXchange ATB Blog Carnival: AdagioTeas’ “Roots Campaign.” Tea industry help for Japan Lan Xiang Xian Zhi (Orchid Fairy Twig, 蘭香仙枝), a wonderful green tea sold by Life In Teacup Tea and Martial Arts
It’s probably not time yet to start running about in a panic wondering what to buy all of the people that you have to buy stuff for this holiday season, but you should plan ahead if you want to take advantage of the Christmas Range on special now at Canton Tea Co., particularly if you [...]
I bought this white stoneware set from a gentleman on eBay who had had it sitting around for at least a decade and had never used it. I think he said that it had been given to him as a gift while he was working in Japan and he had identified it as Japanese, but [...]
The incredible diversity of objects used in the preparation and consumption of tea is vast, with objects ranging from the most humble, like a cream-colored Buffalo china mug, to to the exquisite, such as a fabulously detailed ivory-handled silver Meiji era kyusu. For me, amid that vast richness of design and functionality there are a [...]
In my opinion, the best response to a day-long compulsion to drink Longjing (龙井, Dragon Well) is to yield to it as soon as possible. Longjing is a tea that I prefer to savor with full attention, so it is not typically a tea that I would drink while I am working. So the earlier [...]
It took a bit of work, but I have identified this tea as third flush Jakseol. When I bought it several weeks ago I was limited in the amount of information at hand, since I am not able to read Korean, but I could tell that it was good quality Korean green tea, grown and [...]
