Group "one" Featuring: Jimmy Cummins, Armando DeLao, & Ben Nord
(http://happyearthtea.com/blogs/tea-101/7904251-history-of-darjeeling-tea) The word “Plantation” often comes with unpalatable connotations. Its use is tied to much darker days of the American South. However, throughout certain parts of the globe the use of the word plantation...
My favorite tea tasting was when Raj Vable came from his company Young Mountain Tea and gave a tasting of their favorite teas. Young Mountain Tea is a direct trade company with in...
The global demand and subsequent production of tea has shown an increase in a wide variety of major pests and diseases occuring in different continents, countries, and bioregions. The most common diseases that are...
Camellia Sinensis, which is the major tea species, is a broadleaf evergreen tree that can grow up to 52ft if left to its own devices, but for production purposes the trees are pruned back...
Armando “Oolong tea covers a broad range of fermentation and flavor profiles. Oolong can look like a green tea down at its lowest end of fermentation, or it could look like a black tea...
One of my favorite tea related tastes was the entire tea tasting done by Dewie Meyer of the WUWO Portland tea organization. I choose this as my favorite tea tasting because it...
Camellia sinensis grows throughout a wide range of the world. From all the way to the east and spanning all the way to the pacific northwest, tea can be grown in a variety of climates...
The cultivation of tea has variants in their specific geographical location. Through trial and error and decades of cultivation has brought techniques that help Camellia sinensis flourish wherever it grows. But real...
