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 […]
Continue Reading...Introducing Stone Leaf Teahouse’s Tea Atlas If you have ever wondered where the tea you’re drinking comes from, you’re not alone. When you drink tea, you can taste the place in which it was grown. Much of the flavor is deeply connected to a particular mountainside, village, or master craftsman. Whether you know the […]
Continue Reading...Our recent travels in Zhejiang Province 浙 江 also included a trip to the land of bamboo forests (where Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon was filmed) and tea gardens amongst the hills. Before touring the tea garden, we of course sampled the tea processed the day before. This is a small family operation, where the tea […]
Continue Reading...Outside of Hangzhou, we visited an organic tea farm with some incredible views and incredible tea. After lunch and tea in her family home, Tea Master Zheng invited us up to the roof, where we sat in a Buddhist shrine with the resident Master, who overlooks the tea fields…”overlooks” but also blesses water that is […]
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