Getting the infusion right makes the difference in achieving a quality tea experience. I find many customers damage or waste their tea. By just following a few simple guidelines, it is easy to infuse many great cups from “just a small pinch” of your fabulous tea leaves. Here are a few tips that will help [...]

Tea Garden

Chanoyu: Japan Tea Ceremony.

Japan Tea Garden

From drinking tea to “tasting” tea: As our appreciation in the west for fine loose Select Artisan Tea grows, as our understanding of Select Artisan Tea increases,  and as our desire and readiness to enjoy the nuances of Select Artisan Tea becomes more important us, we will begin to move from drinking tea, finally to tasting tea. Reaching [...]

Take one step back, and the sky is bigger.  This Chinese adage can help us understand The Opportunity of Tea Beyond the Cup. In the west, most often, when we consider tea, we see it as a beverage.  We see it as something we consume because we like the way it tastes, the way it [...]