Umi Tea Sets Blog

T-18 Black Tea From Taiwan Created by the Black Tea Experimentation Center in Taiwan, T-18 is a hybrid produced from a tea tree from Burma (Myanmar) called Ashamu and a...

With several mountain ranges with peaks soaring to over 6,550 feet (2,000 m), a temperature that rarely drops below 55°F (13°C) and a mean rainfall of more than 79 inches...

Fragrant Tea from a Beautiful Isle In 1557, when the Portuguese first came to the island now known as Taiwan, they were so moved by the beauty of the place...

Historically, high mountain tea growing districts have produced Oolong teas. In recent years, small amounts of black and green teas have come onto the high mountain market, but Oolong remains...

The Taiwanese tea industry has around two hundred years of history. Taiwanese high mountain tea has only really come to exist in the past thirty years. These thirty years have...

Recent news in the tea world has focussed on Taiwanese tea growing areas switching to the production of black tea, using the base material of traditional Oolong tea leaves to...

Looking at the aesthetics of Taiwanese high mountain tea from a consumer's perspective Many years ago, a tea seller from New York handed me a name card. On the back...

One afternoon in early spring, I took a Yixing teapot, and set about brewing some Taiwanese high mountain tea. As I poured water into the teapot, the steam curled up,...