If you follow us on social media (@valleybrooktea on Twitter and Instagram), you might have seem pictures and videos of a recent flood...

The heathy growth of tea plants requires a set of conditions. In an ideal growing environment, tea plants can grow stronger, live longer,...

In our last blog, we talked about black tea “Jin Jun Mei/金骏眉” and the first two common misunderstandings. (see last blog for more) Today,...

Happy 4th of July! Click here to check out our holiday sale! When it comes to black tea, we have to talk about “Jin Jun Mei/金骏眉”, the...

The highest temperature in Washington DC today is 94F/34C. Whether we like it or not, this is only the beginning of the hottest time of...

Recently, many readers asked us that since we only have one harvest per year, what do we do after the harvest? Do we just focus on sales...

There are two important tea knowledge that we cannot emphasize enough: 1. Tea plants do not make tea. 2. There aren’t any “green tea...

In tea drinking, black tea is always considered good for the stomach. This is not a groundless claim. As a fully fermented tea, black tea...

When we discuss the history black tea, there’s one black tea we cannot avoid: Lapsang Souchong/正山小种. To many tea lovers, Lapsang Souchong...

The making of Black Tea is not a mystery. From the harvest, fresh leaves need to go through at least 9 stages of processing to become a...

Tea as a beverage is incredible. The flavors and the aromas of an authentic tea product does not have any “ingredients”. All those...

In our previous white tea blogs, there’s one thing we never fully explained: the fragrance of those “white hairs” on tea leaves. Today,...

In our recent tea blogs, we’ve been discussing how our tea makers assess the quality of Maocha (in oolong tea-making, “Maocha/毛茶” refers...

Maocha/毛茶 is half-processed Wuyi oolong (Yancha) leaves (before the roasting process). Although Maocha is not yet a tea product, it’s...

“Maocha/毛茶” is a unique stage in oolong tea production. In Wuyi oolong (Yancha) tea-making, Maocha refers to half-processed tea leaves...

In every spring, white tea and green tea become the first teas available. Most white tea and green tea products share similar harvest...

In our last blog, we visited a term called “Fan Qing/返青”. Since it is quite a complicated subject, we’d like to dedicate this blog to...

In our previous blogs, we’ve been talking about why Wuyi oolong (Yancha) aren’t available right after the tea-making. Recently, some of...

In the industrial age, everything has a standard. When we purchase a car or a cell phone, we expect an exact same copy of what we see in...

Our spring harvest is coming to an end. In less than 10 days, nearly all of our major harvest activities will complete. At this moment,...