Types Of Tea

World Tea

Tea is a drink, a ritual and a ceremony that’s been uniting people around the world since the first tea bush was discovered in China about 5,000 years ago. So let’s take a quick trip around the world and see how different cultures enjoy their tea.

For many years the Chinese Empire dictated how tea crops [...]

Tea Cocktails

by Stephanie Hanson
With tight budgets, more and more people are turning to nights in instead of out. So, for your next girls’ night in, have an evening tea. This is not your pinkies-out afternoon tea, and tea companies are catching on.

Create a fun lounge time atmosphere by picking fun music and having guests dress [...]

Commercial Tea

Commercial tea is harvested from two different tea plants, both in the Camellia family. Camellia sinensis originated in China over 5,000 years ago. Thriving in high altitudes and cool climates, this variety of tea produces small leaves whose essence is floral and refined. From these leaves most green teas are made along with [...]

Gourmet Tea

Despite the weakened economy, the daily indulgence of gourmet tea has been holding steady. Gourmet tea selections include a wide variety of exotic flavors and on average cost thirty percent more than regular teas.

With gourmet tea sales increasing up to twenty-five percent each year for the last two decades, it’s obvious that demand for quality [...]

The Many Faces of Tea

by Stephanie Hanson
For such a simple leaf, the tea plant has undergone amazing transformations in the cups of its drinkers over the centuries. There are as many ways to drink tea as there are leaves on camellia sinensis.

The Chinese people today drink tea as a simple infusion. But there was a time that so many [...]

World Tea

Tea Cocktails

Commercial Tea

Gourmet Tea

The Many Faces of Tea

Types of Tea