There are plenty of selections for jasmine scented green tea in the market, but if you are in for a floral aroma that is pure, sweet, natural, and long lasting; a taste that is soft, silky and yet deliciously deep,…
To answer the demand for Himalayan black teas that are oxidised more deeply, we could have just bought straight away from our Nepali farmer to offer it. They have been making such teas all along anyway. However, we want to…
Red Jade: rare gem of a tea For those who think Red Jade is just another marketing name, “Hong Yu” — properly transliterates as “Red Jade” — is the official name given by the Taiwan tea research authority to the…
Misrepresented Iron Buddha An often misrepresented big name of Wuyi oolong — Tie [te-eh] Luohan — Iron Buddha, is one of the so-called Big Four Bushes of Wuyi ⊕. In the earlier years of my tea career, I had visited many…
Seasons greetings The Chinese Zodiac may mean little to you, but the New Year of the Rooster is surely coming in a fortnight. As the proud bird takes on high ground to announce its replacement of the Monkey, many are…
Different variety for different preference Some tealeaves smell floral, some sweet, some like baked goods, some musky, some earthy, some pungent, some nothing much… and yet they could all be the best of their varieties. Matured teas are even more…
Oxidation room An European importer recently asked me: how do they get such wonderful aroma in the leaves? Referring to an oolong he bought. The chamber in which tealeaves are gently bruised on the edges for partial oxidation in oolong…
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Bug-bitten tea Tea Green Leafhopper is a small pest in the tea field. In the old days when such pests came in numbers, what could you do? Some eighty years ago an oolong farmer in Hsinchu, Taiwan tried to minimise loss…
Before the modern white tea cultivars Before there were the Dai Bai cultivars for making the different white teas as we know them today, older forms of the tea category had been made for centuries. In the past when fuel was precious and…