“Twenty-five years ago, when I joined the business, we all met, we would meet our customers, we would taste tea, you had great tea companies around the world that would taste tea. Today there’s no tea tasting, it’s “this is my price”.”
Sara Shacket from Brooklyn is the force behind Tea Happiness. As a writer, blogger and tea consultant she wants to ‘continue to highlight small tea vendors and shops that are doing amazing work, but don’t get the recognition they deserve.’ Who are you and what do you do within the ‘tea business’?I’m a mom of
With her passionate blog about tea, Tea For Me Please, Nicole Wilson from the United States won the Word Tea Award for Best Tea Blog in 2018. Her mission? “To help others learn more about tea in an approachable way. This is important because loose leaf tea is still new
Ricardo Caicedo runs the interesting tea blog My Japanese Green Tea. What started as a passion for Japanese culture resulted in a desire to let people discover ‘the world of high quality tea’. Who are you and what do you do within the ‘tea business’?I am a tea blogger, my
The origins of oolong tea, a mixture between black or green tea depending on the oxidation levels that comes in many flavorful variations, like most other teas, is hidden in myth and legend. But even if it’s true beginnings aren’t certain it is worth exploring how oolong tea rose to
With Covid having the world in a tight grip, the government in Sri Lanka declared the tea industry as an essential service. “So because of that the tea industry was running well at that time”, says Chaminda from Lumbini Tea Valley in Sri Lanka. What was summer like for growing tea
Most of the flavors of tea that we know and love are named either after the region that it was made in or the ingredients that make up the flavor itself, but there is one name that stands out, and that is Earl Grey. So how did this hugely popular
With a cold and dry summer the growth of the tea leafs in Tanzania stagnated a bit, but eventually things turned out fine. “But the influence of Covid on sales and export cannot be underestimated”, says Bente from Tanzanian Kilimanjaro Specialty Tea. What was the summer like for growing tea
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