Pu-erh Tuo Cha (Bird's Nest Nugget) China's Yunnan province is considered to be the birthplace of tea and the origin of Pu-er...

Matcha is the finely ground powder of shade-grown and hand-picked Japanese green tea leaves. It has been celebrated in the artistic an...

A specialty of China's Fujian Province, white tea is the most minimally processed of all the tea types. White teas were once ...

Green teas are the least processed of all the types of tea and are often referred to as “unfermented” or “non-oxidized” teas. The inte...

Today we explore the basics of tasting tea. While “cupping” tea is an essential tool used by tea professionals to evaluate the relative ...

We visited the Shan Lin Xi tea producing area in Taiwan in early June. Shan Lin Xi is located at an elevation of 1,600 meters. It is close...

The day after our cupping session in Tokyo, we traveled with Mr. Kaburagi and his son via bullet train to Shizuoka to visit the tea gard...