Valley Brook TeaBlog 84: A Detailed Study of Rou Gui’s Cinnamonic Scent If you ask a tea maker to choose “the king of oolong”, Rou Gui is probably the most popular choice of all. Rou Gui, or 肉桂 in Chinese, is...
Valley Brook TeaBlog 83: Understanding the Tea-Making Term “Waterway” Waterway is the literal translation of 水路 (Chinese pronunciation: shuǐ lù). In both English and Chinese, it means a river, canal or other...
Valley Brook TeaBlog 82: What Does Snow/Coldness Do To Our Tea Plants? On last day of 2018, we’d like to thank you for your continued interest in this tea blog. We started this blog earlier this year and have...
Valley Brook TeaBlog 81: Similarities That All Good Teas Share To tea makers, all teas begin as fresh leaves. Depending on where these fresh leaves grow and how they are processed, we have many kinds...