The world of tea is stunningly rich, and it is easy to get tangled with all the different tea types. Each tea is unique, often having it’s own distinct tea plant cultivar, history, locality, style of processing, and sometimes their own brewing style. There are so many different kinds of...
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THE WORLD OF TEA IS WIDE AND DEEP – DIVE RIGHT IN, THE WATER'S WARM!
Peng Luo
One of the best things in good tea is the ease at which you can get into it. There's an incredible richness that you can experience and learn with and within tea, and you can still prepare and explore it at a pace and in a way that's to your...
THE TRUTH ABOUT GREEN TEA
Peng Luo
In the recent decades, green tea has gained a lot of popularity in Finland and the west in general. It provides a good counterpoint to the bold and heavy flavor profile of black tea, and good-quality (i.e. not impossibly harsh-tasting) green tea has become more easily available in the wake...
ON THE CATEGORISATIONS OF TEA, PT II: TEA BY TASTES
Peng Luo
Astonishingly complex world of tea has been categorised in many way. Mika Hannola’s blog post introduces the currently established way of grouping tea into six classes. On the first part of my musings I pointed out some observations about it, and this text will introduce a model to group tea’s together by taste. The...