New shoots
A small plug for a promising new tea import company.
Tag Archives: China
2008 Huangshan Maofeng
Huangshan Maofeng, a delicious and superbly inexpensive green tea.
Don’t drink puer tea…
…too young! Why ageing really makes sense.
Dancong 1994–1997
Dancong (Phoenix oolong) is one of the most distinctive teas. Exhuberant in youth, it also ages well, as this tasting of examples from 1994, 1996 and 1997 proves.
Stale tea
Another similarity between wine and tea – how they die.
Wine racism?
A prestigious wine award went to China. Why is this causing so much stir? Isn’t there a hidden racist agenda in the wine world?
Wine and tea (2)
Wine and tea: they actually have a lot in common. In the second installment of this seminal article I look at the production process of wine and tea and how possibly they can be similar.
Wine and tea
Wine and tea: they couldn’t look more different but in fact, have quite a lot in common. In the first installment of this seminal article I look at the geography and terroir of the vine and tea tree.
Moving tea
The logistic challenges of moving a tea collection.
The lure of Korean tea
Three Korean teas on the tea table – more than I normally sample in a year.
