First off: a warning. If you happen to be a tea purist, you’re probably not going to like this tea. However, if you do enjoy green tea with a bit of a difference, then this one might appeal to your sense of the unusual! Culinary Teas Hojicha Gold Green Tea is certainly not a typical […]

Dragonwater Organic Gunpowder Green Tea is a very good example of a true, high-quality gunpowder tea. It has that distinctive, smooth flavor associated with gunpowder tea, and doesn’t contain any unpleasant bitterness. If you’re not familiar with gunpowder tea, it’s a variety of green tea from the famous Chinese tea-producing area of Zhejiang, its name […]

China is the birthplace of green tea, and the beverage continues to enjoy an important position in the Chinese culture. Chinese tea culture is interwoven with everyday life, and has many different aspects, with each situation having its own clearly defined and strictly adhered to set of rules. Green tea is treated with extreme reverence […]

Bancha is a Japanese variety of green tea, which is harvested from the same tree as sencha leaves, but later in the year (usually in the second flush, so between summer and autumn rather than in the springtime). Shincha the first sencha crop is the highest grade of sencha and is decidedly more expensive as […]

There are seven necessities of life, according to the Chinese. Sauce, salt, rice, firewood, oil, vinegar… and tea. Yes, tea is that important in China! It’s to be found at every single meal, where the Chinese drink it for health reasons as well as for their enjoyment of the refreshing taste. Tea is a big […]