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 tea, whose legacy was shrouded by a natural disaster from which it was never able to recover, and that is Kangra tea.
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
Despite what the name might suggest Orange Pekoe has nothing to do with tasting like the popular citrus fruit. Instead it refers to a classification method of black tea that is based on the quality and size of the tea leaves. At the top of his grading system are the
As an island Taiwan has natural borders, which makes it easier to protect from viruses like COVID-19. Our guest writer Cortilia Lin from TeaTalk Academy Taiwan has written a new blog about the impact of COVID-19 on the tea industry in Taiwan. “During the first half of the year, the
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