The Teas of Fujian

All the tea in China. If you’ve never wondered how this popular phrase came to be, consider that not only is China the birthplace of tea drinking and culture but to this day remains the number one tea-producing country in the world - albeit with India more or less hot on its heels. There are …

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Tea Taste Terms Circus

The lexicon of tea terms keeps growing, sort of like when the Ringling Brothers Circus joined with Barnum & Bailey. The vital question, though, is if these terms have any real meaning. There are lots of claims about how teas taste and a host of terms that have “cropped up” (pun intended) to describe those …

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