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  • The Confusion of “Purple Tea”

    Purple tea from Kenya What Is Purple Tea? Trend, Marketing, or a Truly Unique Tea? The rise of “purple tea” raises an interesting question for tea lovers: Is this a genuinely new category of tea—or simply clever marketing? With tea drinkers always eager to explore something new, it’s worth taking a closer look at what… Continue reading

  • The Color Purple (of Tea)

    Of the six main categories of tea, four are commonly associated with a specific color. There’s black and green, of course, along with white tea, which has grown in popularity in recent years. Yellow tea is another category—lightly processed and somewhat similar to green tea—but it remains relatively unknown. The two types not strongly tied… Continue reading