First of all, I want to thank Maksim Malyhin and Murat Kornaev for their tea enthusiasm. Colleagues, thanks to your help, for the third year I have tasted tea made in Transcarpathia on an experimental […]
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Olga Nikandrova & Denis Shumakov
Snow Shan White Tea From Nậm Ty (Vietnam)
This is white tea from Nậm Ty village in Ha Giang province. In this village, located at an altitude of about 1000 meters above sea level, people of the Red Dao minority live and produce […]
So, what is Specialty Tea?
NB: this is the second part of the article on specialty tea, make sure you read the first part first. Specialty Tea is a tea with a high added value, regardless of the way the […]
May the Force Be with You, Specialty Tea!
Have you ever wondered why all recent attempts to single out a certain category in tea, analogous to Specialty Coffee, look so unconvincing? In our opinion, this is happening for one single reason. Currently, there […]
Boseong Sejak Green Tea (South Korea)
Boseong is one of the main tea regions in South Korea. Do not confuse it with Busan. Boseong is where the tea grows and Busan is where the train goes during the zombie apocalypse… Boseong […]
Experimental Tea Plantation on Mount Zhornina
In April 2021, changing many hands, with the help of many good people, a sample of tea made by a team of specialists working on an experimental tea plantation on Mount Zhornina (Transcarpathia, Ukraine) reached […]
Tangya Green White Tea (Hubei, China)
It is a green Chinese tea from Hubei province, made from tea leaves picked from albino tea plants. That is, such plants, whose leaves, under certain conditions, become lighter in comparison with the leaves of […]
Tea in the Experience Economy. Tea Experts and Tea Storytellers
In the previous article, we described two roles that a tea professional can play in the consumer tea culture. These are the roles of a tea guru and a tea actor. Successful work in each […]
Zhornina Mountain Fire Dragon Oolong
An experimental tea made in September 2020 at the “Zhornina Mountain” tea plantation. Nowadays, Mount Zhornina is a home to still-growing tea shoots at the site of the very first tea plantations in the Ukranian […]
Green Snow Shan Tea in Lotus Flower
That rare case when in “Tea +” we talk about a pre-aromatized tea (the tea which was flavoured before we acquired it). But it’s very cool. And rare. And every consecutive year, apparently, it will […]
Lemon Flower Tea
At the slightest opportunity, we experiment with tea and different citrus fruits. We try different lemons, stuff tangerines with tea, and so on. Well, now we finally got to the addition of not citrus fruits […]
Sensory Wheels for the Main Styles of Taiwanese Tea
Experts from TRES (the Taiwan Tea Research and Extension Station) and Ming Chuan University have developed sensory wheels for the main styles of Taiwanese tea. Namely for Taiwanese green tea, Wen Shan Bao Zhong, high […]
Tea in the Experience Economy. Tea Actors and Tea Gurus
In the previous article on Tea in the Experience Economy, we talked about the cases in which you can work with tea as with coffee or with wine. Such cases were not very many, so […]
Teabox Boutiques & On-Trend Tea Business Aesthetics
The Indian project Teabox intends to open tea boutiques at airports around the world. Teabox is originally an online project that works with a variety of Indian teas, but specializes in Darjeeling. Not so long […]
Tea Teasers
Some time ago, we ran into one small but annoying problem — the problem of distracting background snacks at tea-and-food tastings. Well, that is, such snacks that the guest always has at hand and which […]