A huge percentage—the number varies from year to year—of the nearly 5 million tons of tea produced every year around the world is black tea. In the U.S. market alone, nearly 90 percent of tea sales ar...
White tea is not rare, but it is relatively scarce. Some 800-900 tons of white tea are produced each year in the world, which doesn’t exactly sound like scarcity, does it.
Tea and China are synonymous. Yes, there are some fine teas coming out of India and other parts of the world. But tea as a beverage got its start in China and the link between the two has never been s...
A regular tea drinker probably can’t tell where the very act of sipping a quality tea ceases to be relaxing in itself and the ingredients in the tea take over as a soothing agent. It may be that the a...