If you have ever finished a rich meal and wished for something to help your body settle, you are reaching for exactly what millions of people in China have reached for across centuries - a bowl of pu-erh tea. Long before the language of gut microbiomes and...
Some gifts stop people in their tracks. Flowering tea gifts do exactly that. Watch a tightly bound tea bud drop into hot water and slowly unfurl into a handcrafted flower - petals fanning out, colours blooming, the whole display rising gently in the glass -...
Fruit tea is the fastest-growing category in the UK tea market - and also one of the most misrepresented. Most people have had a fruity tea bag that smelled incredible in the packet and tasted of very little in the cup. That's not fruit tea's fault. That's artificial flavouring doing the work that real ingredients should...
Chai is one of the most consumed drinks on the planet. It's also one of the most diluted, misrepresented and commercially mangled. The chai latte on the high street and the masala chai made in a home kitchen in Mumbai are separated by an enormous...
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...