Oolong Tea

Home What is Oolong Tea? Oolong tea is generally described as being semi-oxidized. Primarily manufactured in China and Taiwan, it represents only two percent of the world’s tea production. Often called Formosa, it is processed immediately after plucking. The leaves are first wilted in direct sunlight, then shaken after plucking. The leaves are first wilted […]

Tea As A Meditation

The first cup moistens my lips and throat. The second cup breaks my loneliness. The third cup searches my barren entrail,           but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs. The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration;           all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores. At the fifth cup I am purified. […]

Cinnamon Spice and Everything Nice

“In November, the smell of food is different.” Cinnamon is a spice that has found a home in many tea drinkers’ cups. But how did it get there? Where does it come from?  Why did we start blending it with our tea?  Let’s find out! Native to South Asia, cinnamon eventually found its way in […]

Black Tea

What’s in your cup? Did you know that black tea makes up roughly half of all tea consumed in the United States? Whether it’s Earl Grey, English Breakfast, Assam, Tea-Juana Chai, or Lapsang Souchong, black tea is everywhere. So what exactly makes a tea a black tea?  Like all tea, black tea comes from the […]