We recently made the trip to Pu'er city in Yunnan Province, China - and honestly, it felt less like a business trip and more like a pilgrimage. This is the place where pu-erh tea comes from. The birthplace. The pu-erh tea origin. And one of...
Hand-tied, hand-sewn and designed to bloom in the cup - the story, the craft and the truth about one of tea's most extraordinary art forms.Flowering tea is the point where tea stops being just a drink and becomes something else entirely - a living thing,...
Green tea is one of the most consumed drinks on earth - and one of the most misunderstood. Most people have tried it. Very few have tasted it properly. This guide is here to change that.Whether you've only ever had a green tea bag from...
Blue tea. Colour-changing tea. That viral tea that turns purple when you add lemon. Whatever you've heard it called, butterfly pea flower tea is one of the most visually striking and genuinely fascinating herbal teas in the world - and it has a lot more...
Herbal tea is one of the oldest categories of drink in human history - and also one of the most misunderstood. It is not tea. Not technically. And that single fact opens a door to an entire world most tea drinkers have barely explored.In the...
Rooibos is not a tea. Not technically. And that single fact explains almost everything that makes it special. So what is rooibos tea? Unlike black, green, white, oolong, and pu-erh - all of which come from the Camellia sinensis plant - rooibos is a tisane, or...
Black tea is the most consumed tea in the UK - yet most people have never tasted what it actually tastes like. That's not a contradiction. It's a problem that flavourings, poor brewing habits, and mass-market teabags have quietly created for decades.This guide exists to...
There is one tea in the world that gets better with age - not worse, not stale, not flat - genuinely, measurably better. That tea is pu-erh. It's the only tea in the world that works like wine, not like other teas, and once you understand...
There are more types of tea in the world than most people realise - and they all start with a single plant. All tea comes from one plant - Camellia sinensis. How the leaves are processed after picking determines the type: white, green, oolong, black, yellow,...
"Caffeine-free. Sustainably harvested. And quietly one of the most nutrient-dense teas most UK drinkers have never tried." Most people are familiar with bamboo as a building material, a panda's favourite food, or a sustainable alternative to plastic. Far fewer know that bamboo leaves have been brewed...