[Expertise]
Lydia Gautier, Sommelière Pionnière du Thé
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 [...] Continued...
[Tea Price Report]
No sale in North India while Kochi Sees High Prices
Demand for CTC at the Kochi tea auction was strong this week. Orthodox teas for export to the Middle East and CIS countries also increased. Green teas from the Nilgiris are also commanding higher prices. Continued...
[Tea Price Report]
South India Sale Continues as North Awaits Production
Sale of tea continues in the south Indian auctions while north India awaits sufficient volumes as early season still underway. The early Darjeeling first flush is quickly being picked up in private sales. Continued...
[Tea Price Report]
Light Rains Point to Promising First Flush
A weekly report on global tea prices by market that includes data and details on price averages at tea averages, weather conditions during harvest periods, labor availability and other developments influencing prices, and expert views. Continued...
[Tea Price Report]
Record Green Tea Prices in the Nilgiris as Darjeeling, Assam Begin Harvest Season
A weekly report on global tea prices by market that includes data and details on price averages at tea averages, weather conditions during harvest periods, labor availability and other developments influencing prices, and expert views. Continued...
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Fungi Love Tea, Too
Fu Brick Dark Tea, also known by its visually descriptive name of Golden Flower Dark Tea, is a relatively unknown fungi tea in China that is awaiting one clever and energetic entrepreneur to bring it into mainstream awareness in the West. Continued...
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Wild Forest Grown Ceylon Tea
Forest Hill Tea Garden features wild grown teas produced from an abandoned tea plantation that spans 100 acres, part of a forest that extends to the Holy Adam’s Peak rain forest reserve. Continued...
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Tasting Notes: Jin Jun Mei
Red teas in China are experiencing a Renaissance. One of the most sought after of the high-end red teas is Jin Jun Mei - a fully oxidized tea created in 2006. It is made wholly of tea buds picked in early spring... Continued...
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Tea Discovery: Jin Jun Mei is a Wuyi Red Legend in the Making
Daniel Hong’s whimsical online profile picture has him adorning a Charlie Chaplin hat with an oversized black cardboard moustache.Chinese millennials don’t usually do whimsical, so I thought I might soon be meeting an over-the-top eccentric... Continued...
[Loose Leaf Tea]
The Science Behind the Scents of Tea
Intrigued by the notion of creating a scent kit I was not prepared to launch a serious effort until I had fully retired and written the first version of my first book on tea. It was then I began to grasp the various processes that yield the different aromas in [...] Continued...
[Loose Leaf Tea]
Time-lapse of Japan’s Shincha Harvest Tea
— This time-lapse video captures the beautiful birth of the 2018 shincha harvest.A special video camera, positioned at the Nakakubo Tea Farm, advanced a few frames every 5 minutes for about 30 days last month to show us the dance of the new leaves. The digital images were then edited [...] Continued...
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Tasting Notes: A Taste of Winter in South India
Premium teas from the Nilgiri mountains were well-known among brokers and traders, but not widely recognized by consumers, because most was used in tea blends sold in tea bags. By the first decade of this century, Nilgiri white teas, oolongs and boutique black teas began showing up in Europe and [...] Continued...
