Umi Tea Sets Blog

Tea trees grow over long periods of time in certain special natural environments. Ecological factors influence and constrain the course of a tea tree's life and, thus, give rise to...

The discovery of tea is lost among the folktales. Chinese storytellers recite the legend of Emperor Shen Nung, the father of agriculture and herbal medicine, who lived almost three thousand...

When you buy tea from a supermarket, gourmet shop, Web site, or mail-order catalog, you're confronted with dozens of choices. How do you determine which tea you'll try next? Do...

With more than three thousand varieties of tea and countless combinations, your choice is staggering. Until recently, buying rare or single-garden teas was difficult, because most never reached your local...

In much of the word, the word Chai, simply means tea. In the Western world especially. in North America. chai, (rhymes with "high") has come to mean a tea brewed...

I first met Chen Peiren in the spring of 2010 and was immediately impressed by the clarity of his memory. He vividly described people and events of more than 60...

No matter what kind of tea you drink-black, green, or oolong-each shares components that affect how you feel and what you taste and smell. The main components of tea are...

Over the centuries, tea has been considered a healthy beverage as well as a pleasurable one. Its therapeutic powers have long been glorified by scholars, scientists, and journalists. Lu Yu,...

We describe old Puerh tea as having clear, transparent liquor, rich and changing mouth feel (kougan), distinct layers of flavor, mellow and soft texture in the mouth, distant and prolonged...

When is a tea not a tea? When it's an herbal infusion, or tisane. Technically speaking, only a beverage made from the leaves of one plant, Camellia sinensis, can truly...

What is quality Puerh tea? I am sure many new Puerh tea drinkers have pondered this question. Depending on one's perspective, its answer may be very simple, or very complex....

There are a variety of ways to brew tea, from the Mongolian practice of pulverizing tea leaves and boiling them with salted milk to the aesthetic Japanese ceremony of whisking...