This post is fifth in a series on Teas of China.One of China’s holy mountains, Huangshan or Yellow Mountain is actually a range of some seventy-five peaks where numerous national dramas – some historic and some mythical – have taken place. In ancient times a stairway to one summit was … Continue reading
We have posted many articles and had many community discussions about the health benefits of tea, with a clear emphasis and bias toward green and white tea. A review of research, however, begs the question: Do we do ourselves a service by limiting ourselves to the least oxidized teas?Much of … Continue reading
T Ching is currently looking for an individual to become our photo editor. It is with great sadness that our current editor, Scotia, will be leaving T Ching. She has done a wonderful job and we’ll miss her terribly. The images that you see each week are an important part … Continue reading
It is easy, from the remove of a tea purveyor who can purchase and enjoy some of the finest whole leaf teas the planet has to offer – at wholesale prices, to forget the socio-economic diversity of the global tea-drinking population.Tea, being second only to water as the world’s most … Continue reading
I regularly taste a lot of different teas, and I always do my tasting in the morning before I have altered my palate with other food or beverages. The downside of this is that I am tasting teas for several hours on an empty stomach. The result being one of … Continue reading
Green Spring Spiral (Pi Lo Chun or Biluochun)This is the name Qing Emperor K’ang-hsi gave this tea, possibly on the same tour when he visited the Longjing gardens no great distance from the home of Biluochun, which is in Jiangsu Province just inland from Shanghai, where it grows on Dongding … Continue reading