India is famous for its excellent tea producing regions, where the likes of Assam, Darjeeling and Nilgiri tea, are grown for tea enjoyers all over the world. However, there is another region, equally exquisite in its quality of

Ancient Greece is known for many things, most prominently it is seen as the “cradle of Western civilization”, a society that set the foundation for philosophy, politics, science, and art for the Western world. A lesser-known fact

Lu’an Melon Seed tea (Lu An Gua Pian) is a baked, loose leaf green tea hailing from Lu’an City, Anhui Province in China. The tea is named after the distinctive flat and oval shape of the leaves, resembling a melon seed. This

High up in the misty Lushan Mountain in Eastern province of Jiangxi, China, grows a specialty green tea that because of its uniqueness and high quality at one point was reserved exclusively for the emperor.

Some teas find their claim to fame in how or where they grow, others in how the leaves are harvested or prepared, and others still in what flavors are infused. But there is one tea

Most of us are familiar with the popular South African tisane (herbal tea) Rooibos tea. Fewer of us perhaps with its little brother Honeybush tea, or we might have thought both were different names for

When we think of tea gardens we immediately think of the lushy green tea fields of India, China and Taiwan. But as it turns out, New Zealand proved to be a great place to grow

For centuries green tea has been the drink of choice in Japan, but there is one region in Japan that has been particularly instrumental in the development of these green teas, and that is the