If you have just discovered pu-erh tea and found yourself staring at the words "sheng" and "shou" wondering what on earth the difference is - you are in exactly the right place. It is, without question, the number one question new pu-erh drinkers ask. And...
Learn how to brew pu-erh tea at home with this complete beginner's guide. From breaking the cake to gongfu steeping, get the most from every cup....
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...