Tea is a lifetime drink and as our life moves on and times change, so do our preferences and needs. Tea offers every age group dimensions of value and enjoyment that move with the rhythms of life’s stages. There is no one “best” tea, but always one for you, at your age.
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Tea is a lifetime drink and as our life moves on and times change, so do our preferences and needs. Tea offers every age group dimensions of value and enjoyment that move with the rhythms of life’s stages. There is no one “best” tea, but always one for you, at your age.
by Peter Keen
Jorhat, Assam The vast Brahmaputra Valley holds the world’s greatest concentration of tea. Commercial production began 180 years ago in […]
by Pullock Dutta
Eons of evolution in the ancient tea forests of China has established a complex and delicate biomass. The gnarled, pale-grey and green trunks of the oldest trees are home to myriad adaptations of spiders, lichen, and the tree parasite known to locals as crab pincer, a tea mistletoe.
by Dan Bolton
Siliguri, West Bengal During his 47-year stewardship of Makaibari Tea Estate, one of India’s oldest and most celebrated tea habitats, […]
by Dan Bolton
Pradip Baruah was born curious. He spends much of his time in the office and lab as chief advisory […]
by Pullock Dutta
Tea offers adventures unlike those of any other beverage. We can all invoke our own special and intimate adventure in our minds and senses as we sip our cup. The first step begins with our eyes. We anticipate the adventure as we look into the cup, even before the tea’s aroma wafts to our nose.
by Virginia Utermohlen
A scant 2,000 kilometers west of Darjeeling, on the opposite side of the Indian subcontinent, lays a scenic valley of the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh, a place steeped in Hindu mythology.
by Frank Miller
The concept of terroir is still in flux, though trending toward a more widely accepted framework for an all-encompassing set of synergistic influences.
by Lou Berkley
The Western Ghats, South India Backbone of South India The six-hour drive south from Balanoor Tea Estate in Karnataka to […]
by Frank Miller
Balanoor Tea Estate, Karnataka Piece of Cake His birthday was celebrated in a leafy residential section of Bangalore, one […]
by Frank Miller
There is a revolution going on in South India, right under our noses. Up until the late 1980s perhaps, South […]
by Frank Miller
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia In the time of the great Khans a caravan laden with four “poods” of tea found favor with […]
by Mainbayar Badarch
There’s been a growing shift in the strange, unfamiliar and exotic words you’ll see on a tea ingredient label or […]
by Peter Keen
In 2002 when Audrey Saunders first introduced her ‘Earl Grey Mar-Tea-ni’ at the Ritz Hotel in London, it took the […]
by Cynthia Gold
Tea’s a five-thousand year mystery tale. For every major fact we know, there is so much we have only been […]
by Peter Keen
KYOTO, Japan — This time-lapse video captures the beautiful birth of this year’s shincha harvest. A special video camera, […]
by Dan Bolton
It’s no news that climate change is a growing, severe and global problem. Alas, it’s also not news that this […]
by Peter Keen
Vietnam in 2017 ranked as the world’s seventh-largest producer of tea and fifth in exports. It has 124,000 hectares under […]
by Peter Keen
Innovation in tea increasingly depends on innovation in packaging Make the tea bag go away Change the labels Freshen up […]
by Peter Keen
Tucked away near Oregon’s Willamette River in Salem, is Minto Island Tea Company: a nearly half acre plot of land containing Camellia sinensis var. sinensis bushes. More botanic laboratory than tea farm, it’s a 29-year-old science project and the only place in the state of Oregon where tea is being cultivated and sold.
by Dan Shryock
The thousands of articles and blogs on matcha fall into two main groups: “Wow!” and “What?” Wow focuses on some […]
by Peter Keen
We all know that green tea is healthy. However, most of us have only unearthed a fraction of the green […]
by Keith Hutjens
The health benefits of tea are increasingly established. Even discounting the extreme claims of its being a magic cure for […]
by Peter Keen
Six-time New York Times bestselling author, Lisa See, loves tea so much that she wrote a novel with Pu-erh tea as its historical background. This comes as no surprise if one knows the See family’s journey, of immigrants in the Wild West and Chinatown with a dash of Hollywood, intertwined with tea.
by Arris Han
Tea innovation is a surprisingly inexhaustible subject. Choose a topic that has shaped society, such as trade, war, health, literature, […]
by Peter Keen
There is a clear emerging trend in the Australian market away from mainstream black tea to more specialist offerings. Australians’ […]
by Sharyn Johnston
The Innovation Imperative: Where and How, not If In a time of change, the question is not whether to innovate, […]
by Peter Keen
Some studies have identified 131 pesticides in tea (Zhu, 2019); others have identified up to 400 (Ly, 2020). Many tea […]
by Peter Keen
Most people are familiar with the many black tea blends on the market but may not have much sense of […]
by Keith Hutjens
How would you describe the flavor of these ten teas? They are a representative selection from the many market innovations […]
by Peter Keen
Hokkaido doll maker Chunimitsu Karakuri crafted this antique wind-up, walking Edo Karakuri doll to bring your daily tea. Karakuri are […]
by Dan Bolton
Encasing tea in these elegant jewelry cases of inlaid wood was deceptively challenging. This is because the world’s first tea […]
by Dan Bolton
Tea tech: robotics, computer vision, machine learning; Tea Sci: biogenetics, biomarkers; Soft $3: end-to-end logistics, sustainability, cost, productivity If […]
by Peter Keen
Tea and Buddhism: Much More than Just Contemplation It seems natural to associate Buddhism with tea. Tea expresses China’s history. […]
by Peter Keen
Tearooms are romantically portrayed as cozy and pleasant places to relax and enjoy teas with cakes, biscuits and sandwiches. Tearoom […]
by Peter Keen
Kunlun Mountain Snow Chrysanthemum tea is as striking to taste as it is to look at. It’s a candidate […]
by Peter Keen
Enjoy your tea: 10 myths that get in your way Tea is a wonderful drink, with at least 3,000 varieties […]
by Peter Keen
Ten innovative women who shaped the history of tea: social, political, trade, business, and cultural. Tea Market Check Out Our […]
by Peter Keen
The intense, curious, and inventive mind of Allen Han has been focused for years on industrial design. The 45-year-old is […]
by Janis Hashe
Tea is the beverage that welcomes millions of holiday visitors in every land — instantly conveying warmth and comfort. Centuries […]
by Dan Bolton
Australians have a history of being black tea drinkers and following their mostly British heritage, but that is rapidly changing. […]
by Sharyn Johnston
Large government-supported tea estates are failing. Scarcity of labor, the cost of large-scale production and reliance on chemicals and pesticides […]
by Dan Bolton
Green tea (nokcha in Korean) is called “sparrow’s tongue tea” (jaksulcha) due to the tea leaf’s delicate shape. In Korea, […]
by Mina Park
“Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will […]
by Suzette Hammond
Tea Journey was funded this week by more than 550 backers who contributed $127,500 making this magazine the third highest […]
by Dan Bolton
Stephen Carroll is one of 42 Tea Journey tasters reporting on the 2016 harvest. Look for his posts on South […]
by Stephen Carroll
I began visiting tea markets to find companies selling interesting teas. I spent countless hours sipping teas at tea shops […]
by Jay T Hunter
GRASSE, France — Less than an hour away from Nice, in the South of France, there is a small town […]
by Victoria Bisogno
REMINDER: The Kickstarter campaign to fund Tea Journey launches April 3. Donors will be listed in the inaugural issue published in June and […]
by Dan Bolton
Half the world drank tea today. We intend to double that count. Our enthusiasm is unbounded when it comes […]
by Dan Bolton