This category includes articles on tea training, advice on tasting, tea chemistry, agronomy, education, marketing, industry experts, books, and events, competitions and activities online (webinars, virtual tradeshows) designed to enhance the skills of tea drinkers (professionals and tea enthusiasts). The tea tasters series is an example of tapping the expertise of professionals who share their expertise with readers.
Tea drinking has evolved in the 75 years since George Orwell’s famous essay ‘A Nice Cup’ was first published. The variety of teas available today would likely astonish Orwell and certainly would have astonished his Evening Standard readers. The process of discovering what a great pot of tea means to you can and should be more nuanced and wide-ranging than it was in Orwell’s time.
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The Global Japan Tea Association educates and informs tea enthusiasts about Japanese tea, but it is also about making and developing human relations that transcend national boundaries.
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The tea education initiatives of specialty tea importer Devan Shan founded and supported in this country and India live on ― memorials to a man of enormous accomplishment.
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Tea Journey was funded this week by more than 550 backers who contributed $127,500 making this magazine the third highest funded periodical in Kickstarter history… To our backers around the world: Those who know me well, know that I’m never at a loss for words… until now. Tea Journey was […]
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REMINDER: The Kickstarter campaign to fund Tea Journey launches April 3. Donors will be listed in the inaugural issue published in June and get their choice of an exquisite tea to begin their personal tea journey. — Tea Journey is a collaborative venture, self-financed by editors, writers, tea consultants and tea experts globally. […]
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Half the world drank tea today. We intend to double that count. Our enthusiasm is unbounded when it comes to fine tea. We drink it hot. We drink it cold. We drink tea at dusk and dawn. We bake with it, use it to poach fish, blend it in […]
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Particularly fine items used in these Japanese tea rituals were designated as meibutsu, or revered objects, by the tea men. Chigusa is a meibutsu tea jar and one of the most famous of several hundred antique ceramic storages jars still in existence.
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Pionnière dans le domaine de la sommellerie du thé et auteure de plusieurs ouvrages de référence sur le thé, Lydia Gautier a été consultante pour des marques internationales. Ses 25 années d’expérience et de proximité avec des producteurs l’ont conduite à devenir une des figures majeures de l’expertise du thé dans le monde, et à créer en 2107 sa propre marque, Lydia Gautier Thés et Tisanes. En 2021, elle préside le jury technique des thés monovariétals du concours de l’Association de Valorisation des Produits Agricoles (AVPA) qui récompense les meilleurs thés de spécialité.
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To get his fill of the best quality fresh tea leaves, Sharad Subba partners with 80 farmers in the neighborhood. This is one of the many ways Jasbire Tea Processing Center keeps the manufacturing of tea communal and delivers one of the finest Nepal teas. The quality tea made in Subba’s factory is consistent, distinctive, and truly representative of Jasbire.
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Smallholders are the backbone of the tea industry, especially in underdeveloped Nepal. Here’s the story of one Nepali smallholder: a widowed grandmother who has spent a lifetime nurturing tea in turn with nature, faith and family.
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Storage is a challenge tea drinkers have struggled with for as long as Camellia sinensis has been part of our lives. Dark teas like puer were aged in smoky kitchen rafters in China for centuries. Wooden chests lined with lead were used to transport shipments on long sea voyages. During […]
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Being Tea offers a uniquely human-centered membership program, offering financially accessible, sensory supportive, self-empowered education online for your daily life in tea!
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