Some people love bitterness, some distain it. While the tea plant naturally has components that add bitterness, no tea has to taste bitter. It all comes down to how you make your pot of tea. This posting assumes one thing you can always assume with us…it’s loose leaf tea. (Nothing against tea bag tea, just […]
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This trip was a Tea Garden Intensive. We visited 14 gardens in 12 days. We were hosted in such a pleasant manner, that often we felt we were a guest at the tea workers home (sometimes we actually were!). It was a very humbling experience…to meet so many different people involved in the effort to […]
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This year’s travels were filled with many tea gardens and many tastings. One that stood out to us was a visit to Gopaldhara Tea Estate in the Mirik Valley of Darjeeling. I arrived after nightfall, winding down a narrow bumpy jeep road that was quite nerve-racking (most tea areas have crazy mountain roads..but this was […]
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There’s a lot of tea in China, and we decided this year to focus on Green Tea from Zhejiang Province, and White Tea from Fujian. It’s been a busy Spring, and early season harvests are fading to an end…which allowed us to taste the full spectrum of the best to offer. Visiting both large and […]
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I’ll admit it…I kind of geek out to this stuff. So waking up in the morning, washing my face and brushing my teeth next to Tea ladies was a pretty big deal. But that’s not how the day started. It took a bit of effort and luck to get here. First, was a desire […]
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