Umi Tea Sets Blog

In Japan, the notion of terroir is less important than in China As we have seen, the practice of mixing different batches of aracha in order to crearte a balanced...

Although making tea using the classic method of brewing from loose leaves is still the Japanese national drink, it does not fit well with the lifestyle of young Japanese. New...

Japanese methods of processing tea were, for a long time, inspired by Chinese practice, but today they are radically different, mainly because of state-of-the-art technologies and specific processing methods that...

As is the case everywhere, the quality of the terroir is a determining factor in the flavor and character of a tea. Because the sea is never more than 75...

A WORK OF ART AND THE WORK OF A LIFETIME, TEA DRINKING IN JAPAN HAS EVOLVED INTO A SPIRITUAL IDEAL KNOWN AS CHADO ("THE WAY OF TEA"). FROM ITS INTRODUCTION...

Teas which are light and offer good flavor. Set in the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, Indonesia is a chain of islands that stretch from Malaysia to Papua...

China has the widest range of teas in the world which are of the finest quality, with many still made by hand. Commercial cultivation of tea in China began well...

The Nilgiris, or Blue Mountains, are a stunningly beautiful range of hills that stretch down the southwestern tip of India from the state of Kerala, another tea-growing area, to the...

Tucked away in the foothills of the snow- covered Himalayan mountains of northeast India lies the hill resort of Darjeeling 6,000 feet above sea-level and in the most spectacular setting,...

Teas from the highest region on the island are described as the "champagne" of Ceylon teas. Until the 1860s, the main crop produced on the island of Sri Lanka, then...

Today, tea is grown on both sides of the Brahmaputra Valley, the largest black tea- producing region of the world. In 1993, approximately 155 years after those first chests of...

One of the world's largest producers of tea, with more than 13,000 gardens. A Dutch explorer who sailed round the Cape of Good Hope to Goa on India's west coast...