Umi Tea Sets Blog

The Infuser Pot There are several elegant glass pots on the market today which have their own in-built infuser sitting in the neck of the pot. To brew the tea,...

In the earliest Chinese history of tea drinking, leaves were boiled in water in open pans. But the Ming Dynasty fashion for steeping processed leaves in hot water created the...

Tea tasting is an essential part of the work of both tea brokers and tea blenders. Brokers taste teas in order to assess their value prior to auction, blenders decide...

The concept of Fair Trade attempts to address the imbalance between the wages paid to workers, particularly in the Third World, who produce the tea and the money, made by...

Packaging Until 1368, China tea, in the form of compressed cakes and bricks, was easy to store and transport. The solid slabs neither disintegrated nor lost their flavor. However, the...

Until the 1840s, when the clipper ships were built, it took between 15 and 18 months to sail stocks of tea from China and Java back to London. The great...

The final stage in the tea process is the sorting, or grading, of the leaf. As the leaf particles emerge from the dryers or ovens, they are passed through sifters...

In the past, tea plants were normally grown from seed, but todays new stock is being produced more and more by vegetative propagation (from cuttings and from layered transplanted rooted...

Lu Yu in the Tang Dynasty, in his Tea Sutra said: "The water is from the mountain ..." Our country is very rich in spring water, which is loved by...

Because of territorial difference, there are numerous methods of tea drinking in the world. Egypt: tea with sugarEgyptians like strong black tea, but they prefer sugar to milk with a...

Drinking tea was very popular in Song Dynasty. Emperor often rewarded ministers with tea, and even donated tea to foreign diplomats to show friendship. Folk tea culture is full of...

As places vary, the weather and customs differ. As a multiethnic county, different customs of tea exist in different nationalities owing to various geographical environments and habits. Han: pure drinkingHan...