Tea Emissaries Eisai and Enni Ben’en brought powdered tea from China to Japan, weaving Zen practice, ritual, and cultivation into traditions that evolved into Japan’s iconic tea ceremony.
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Tea in Hawaii: Cultivating Tradition and Innovation in Paradise
Hawaii’s volcanic soil nurtures a new crop: tea. Visionaries Eva Lee and Chiu Leong transformed Hawaii’s agriculture, blending artistry, sustainability, and community to create teas rooted in aloha, resilience, and cultural authenticity.
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Silicon: The Secret to Better Tea
A groundbreaking study reveals how silicon reshapes aluminum uptake in tea plants, boosting caffeine and amino acids while lowering aluminum in brewed tea—transforming both flavor and safety for drinkers.
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Tea’s Trash Becomes Soil’s Treasure
A landmark Indian study reveals how factory tea waste can be pyrolyzed into high-quality biochar, offering producers a circular solution to soil degradation, waste disposal, and carbon sequestration
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Tea of Our People: Russian, Norwegian, and Irish Tea Traditions
Legendary beginnings meet personal memory. From Emperor Shennong’s accidental infusion to the brass samovar, Norway’s community Tea Time, and Ireland’s reliance on black tea during famine, this essay weaves family stories and cultural history into a celebration of tea as a unifying, resilient tradition.
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Tea Taster Profile: Baishaki Bhar
Baishaki Bhar is the Tea Marketing and Exports Manager at Jay Shree Teas and Industries Ltd., India. She has many years of experience in tea tasting. She became a tea professional accidentally, but cannot imagine a different reality now.
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Steeping Scents: The Fragrant World of Tea-Inspired Perfumes
Tea’s aromatic complexity and cultural symbolism inspire modern perfumes. From green tea’s clarity to chai’s warmth, discover how tea notes shape fragrance trends and emotional resonance.
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Could 2026 be the Year Coffee Drinkers Embrace the Tea Leaf
Coffee sharpened modernity; tea preserved tradition. Together, they expand the map of taste. As 2026 begins, Tea Journey invites coffee drinkers to explore tea not as a rival but as a frontier.
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The Tea Bud Gene Making Waves In The Teacup
Discover how the scientists identified CsKNOX6, the master gene behind tea bud size—ushering in a new era of precision breeding, flavor control, and climate-smart cultivation.
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Tea in Brazil: Innovations in Wellness, Flavor, and Culture
In a nation obsessed with coffee, Elizeth van der Vorst of Amigos do Chá is revolutionizing the landscape, bridging cultures and promoting wellness through the introduction of premium Indian teas.
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Tea Taster Profile: Jennifer Nowicki
Jennifer Nowicki, founder of Cultivate Taste Tea, is a certified specialist leveraging 30 years of industry experience and business expertise to share the world’s finest, authentic single-origin teas.
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America’s Feminist Rural Tea Rooms
Explore the forgotten rural tea rooms of the early 1900s, built by women seeking financial independence and a public voice, serving as feminist hubs for suffrage and business
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The Culture of the Sense: Tea and the Sensory Experience
A POV on how our senses of sight, smell, and taste are educated and shaped by cultural context, revealing that tasting tea is a culturally cultivated skill, and not instinct
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Tea Color Wheel: Revolutionizing Tea Education
Explore the future of Tea Education with the innovative Tea Color Wheel developed by the Australian Tea Masters, seeking to enhance communication and tasting precision.
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Tea Party: Brewing Connections
Tea Meetups are more than just get-togethers. Learn more about how to organize a tea meetup in your city, things to keep in mind, and build a community of tea lovers discovering new connections and new teas.
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Tea in Ecuador: From the Amazon Rainforest to the World
Explore the unique tea in Ecuador from Hacienda Sangay, the only tea farm located in the Amazon rainforest, producing premium black tea, rooted in culture and sustainability
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Tea Taster Profile: Jan Dellwisch
Since I was born in East Frisia, Assam Orthodox tea has always held a special place for me. I see it as an abstract connection to my heritage — the East Frisian tea culture — which is deeply tied to a region on the other side of the planet from Assam.
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A Tea Drinker’s Guide to Brighton
Experience what it’s like to be a tea lover in Brighton, England, home to specialty tea shops Hoogly, Bird & Blend, and MD Teas. All three brands originated in this popular day-trip destination and seaside city loved by Londoners.
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Armenia – The Home of Herbal Teas
Armenia’s herbal teas have ancient roots, with shepherds collecting wild herbs from mountains and valleys. Today, brands like Nazan and MounTea continue this tradition, creating natural remedies.
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Running a Teashop Can Be Murder: A Conversation with Vicki Delany
Tea Journey book editor Jodi Webb interviews Vicki Delany, the author of multiple bestselling books, talking about her new book – Tea with Jam and Dread, exploring how she goes about creating her characters and writing her books
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Selling Tea in Italy: Forgetting the Noise of the World
Tea sommelier Daniela Ferraresi has spent over 20 years promoting tea culture through her Rome specialty store namasTèy, located behind the Pantheon in one of the world’s highest coffee-consuming nations. Her store serves as a calm refuge where customers discover quality loose teas and embrace tea as meditation
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Pear-shaped Pottery: Teapot-maker Carries Chaozhou Traditions into a New Era
Chaozhou is the epicentre of Phoenix Dan Cong (Fenghuang Shan), a diversely aromatic oolong. Discover how Yujian Cai, with his family history in pottery, is shaping the future of Chaozhou tea traditions and culture, taking them forward into the new era.
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Spotlight | Paris Tea Festival
The inaugural two-day Paris Tea Festival, taking place on June 14-15, offers an expansive program of immersive experiences, including tastings, tours, and tea preparation demonstrations, as well as sessions on growing tea, a staging of the Japanese tea ceremony, and the German East Frisia tea ceremony, alongside conference sessions. | Episode 218 | Tea Biz Blog | Podcast
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Mexican Couple Shares Their Love of Japanese Tea Culture
Discover how two Mexican nationals living in Japan have embraced Japanese tea culture, in this heartwarming story of how they found their calling as practitioners of the Hoenryu tea ceremony in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto.
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West Bengal ICC Tea Conclave
A two-day conclave hosted by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) of North Bengal to promote tea to India’s youth brought together industry leaders, innovators, and change-makers nationwide to reimagine tea as a next-generation consumer and lifestyle product. | Dan Bolton | Episode 216
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Tariff Relief Badly Timed for Newly Harvested Tea
Tariffs on Shipments Valued at $800 or Less and Sent Via Postal Services from China Will be Reduced from 120% to 54% | Kenya Halts Rainforest Alliance Audits | West Bengal Conclave Promotes Tea for Youth | PLUS | Progressing Toward Premiumization with Wollenhaupt North America CEO Jason Adams. | Episode 216
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Eliminating the “de minimis” Exemption Will Severely Impact Tea eCommerce
Eliminating the US “de minimis” exemption will severely impact tea eCommerce sales | Episode 215
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Tariffs Target Tea Lands | Red Sea Airstrikes Raise Shipping Risk | Tea Benefits Children in the Womb | Ep 210
US Tea Trading Partners Face Single Rate Country-Specific Reciprocal Tariffs | Renewed Airstrikes in Yemen Elevate Tea Transit Risk | A Study of 1400 Mother-Child Pairs Found that Drinking Tea During Pregnancy is Linked to Enhanced Cognitive Development in Children
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How Superconnectors Benefit the Tea Industry
Identifying, embracing and deploying tea superconnectors can mitigate trade disruptions and create a more interconnected, resilient network for the future. Doing so will safeguard tea’s shared legacy and economic vitality, strengthening the bonds between producing nations and consumers one relationship at a time. | Episode 208
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Tea Firms and Fans Share Financial Success
Tea firms and fans can share financial success through equity crowdfunding, says Peter Yang, president and CEO of OverSubscribe+, a non-crypto, fully regulated way for customers and fans to fund company growth and earn back a share of the money they make. | Episode 202
Read More Tea MeetUps: Brewing Connection Online, Pouring Community Offline
Across the globe, from Paris to Tokyo, tea lovers are transforming online chats into in‑person gatherings. These Tea MeetUps—grassroots, inclusive, and free—bring strangers together to share a pot, learn brewing styles, and discover teas they might never have encountered otherwise. What began as a riverside gathering in Paris has now […]
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Tariffs Trigger Global Selloff
US Delays the Hardest Hitting Tariffs but Raises Duties on Chinese Tea to 152.5% | Japan Adapts to a Matcha Shortfall | China Enjoys a Fine Qing Ming Tea Harvest Holiday | Episode 213
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Demystifying Taiwanese Oolong
Sean Hsu Hao Sheng, CEO of Trilliant Tea seeks to demystify and help tea drinkers fully appreciate the complexities of well-made oolong tea.. | Episode 205
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Kangra Looks Towards West Bengal for Tea Tourism Inspiration | West Bengal Government to Meet Tea Industry Stakeholders
Kangra Looks Towards West Bengal for Tea Tourism Inspiration | West Bengal Government to Meet Tea Industry Stakeholders | Episode 206
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Darjeeling Faces A Challenging First Flush | Growers Ask for 100% Auction Sales | Two Tea Brands Raise Funding
Darjeeling Faces A Challenging First Flush | Growers Ask for 100% Auction Sales | Two Tea Brands Raise Funding | Episode 205
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Red Sea Shipping Attacks Paused | Carlsberg Acquires UK Bottler Britvic | Kidney Mortality Rates Lower for Tea Drinkers Consuming Oxidized Tea
Red Sea Shipping Attacks Paused | Carlsberg Acquires UK Bottler Britvic | Kidney Mortality Rates Lower for Tea Drinkers Consuming Oxidized Tea | Episode 202
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Hot Tea Gains Marketing Momentum | FDA Bans Red Dye No. 3 | Argentine Tea Awarded GI Status
Hot Tea Gains Marketing Momentum | FDA Bans Red Dye No. 3 in Foods and Beverages | Argentina’s Misiones Tea Growing Region is Awarded Geographic Indication Status | Episode 201
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Global Tea Institute 2025 Colloquium: Tea and Peace
Hundreds of tea professionals, educators, and enthusiasts will travel from around the world to attend the UC Davis Global Tea Institute’s 10th Anniversary colloquium on January 30 at UC Davis. This year’s theme is Tea and Peace: Bringing Communities Together. | Episode 200
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Aspiring to Be Good Fathers: Dreams of Boys
Fatherhood is not just about being there physically but also about being emotionally present and engaged. Boys are motivated to create and sustain meaningful relationships when they witness this healthy behavior in their fathers.
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Romantic Tea Infused Chocolates
There’s an ideal pairing for every kind of tea and chocolate. Finding the right combination produces a union that delights the palate and raises the individual components to a higher level.
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Anything for Tea: Budget Backpacking in Nilgiris
Buddies Cafe in Ooty. This cafe is the largest tea room in India, which features over 220 varieties of tea: artisanal and hand-crafted single-origin teas, orthodox blends, tisanes, and CTC dust. When I first entered the cafe, Nirmal Raj stood next to a wall of transparent glass tea canisters and opened them enthusiastically to allow customers to inhale as he spoke animatedly about each tea. After leaving my non-heated hostel, I chanced upon the cafe, searching for a warmer place to write from. As a shoestring budget backpacker, I had traveled to the Nilgiris tea-growing region on an overnight bus from Bengaluru, India, and soon found myself returning daily to Buddies Cafe.
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Easy Leaf Tea, by Timothy d’Offay
Easy Leaf Tea is a tea recipe book with a difference. This sumptuously illustrated book focuses on recipes for brewing tea and tea-centric kitchen creations. This isn’t a book about cakes with a dash of tea thrown in; this is tea, tea, and more tea, but with a twist. Tea is, as it rightly should be, the star of the show.
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The Teahouse Experience
“Stepping into the teahouse should feel like stepping out of the daily world into a place of beauty – of carved wood, paintings, sculpture, calligraphy, and delicate porcelain. It would be lit with silk and stone lamps. Music would be playing at just the right volume, and the tea served must exceed the drinker’s expectations even more than the environment where it is done.” – Austin Hodge
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Tea in Peru
Peru’s tea industry is gradually expanding after decades of decline. Tea drinking has grown in popularity, but due to social and political problems and the economic crisis, commercial production in the late 1990s began a seemingly endless decline, compounded by bad administrative management and the arrival of less expensive Argentine tea. In the ten years since 2011, Peru’s tea market has increased 61% by value.
Read More Tea Emissaries: Eisai and Enni Ben’en
Tea Emissaries Eisai and Enni Ben’en brought powdered tea from China to Japan, weaving Zen practice, ritual, and cultivation into traditions that evolved into Japan’s iconic tea ceremony.
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A New Way to See Matcha Quality
Ian Chun introduces a groundbreaking Matcha Spectrum Sampler, reframing how buyers understand quality. His visual chart clarifies confusing grades, shifting focus from production claims to functional performance in the bowl.
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Urasenke Ceremony at Nagoya’s Sanshotei Tea House
Ancient symbolism and practices are essential aspects of Chanoyu the Japanese tea ceremony, although much of the experience is about enjoying the present moment. Many Japanese consider chanoyu the quintessential artistic expression of Japanese hospitality.
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