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    Blog 116: Is Tea Calming or Stimulating?
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    Blog 116: Is Tea Calming or Stimulating?

    When I visited London in 2011, my hotel prepared quite a lot tea for me. Knowing my tea business background, the hotel even provided me a...
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    Blog 115: Why Do We Fear Spring Frostbite?
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    Blog 115: Why Do We Fear Spring Frostbite?

    Tea production is an agricultural activity. No matter how advanced modern technologies get, tea production will always encounter natural...
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    Blog 114: Our Spring Oolong Tea Season Has Begun
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    Blog 114: Our Spring Oolong Tea Season Has Begun

    Last week, we officially started this year’s Wuyi oolong (Yancha) season. Some tea lovers might be surprised at this timing. Some green...
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    Blog 113: The Aroma of Spring White Tea
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    Blog 113: The Aroma of Spring White Tea

    The aroma of spring white tea best represents the overall quality of the harvest. If we want to fully experience a white tea, the aroma...
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    Blog 112: The Charm of Old Shui Xian Tea Plants
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    Blog 112: The Charm of Old Shui Xian Tea Plants

    In our opinion, fragrance is the first thing we notice in a cup of tea. The fragrance of tea has a unique ID. It varies with different...
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    Blog 111: Old Tea is Aged Tea?
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    Blog 111: Old Tea is Aged Tea?

    Recently, a friend came to us and shared a story of how he visited a local tea store and found a 13-year-old Wuyi oolong (Yancha) still...
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    Blog 110: Storing Tea in the Refrigerator?
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    Blog 110: Storing Tea in the Refrigerator?

    From the very beginning of tea-making, the storage of tea is a challenge. Tea products like to stay in a dry, cool, and odorless...
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    Blog 109: The Origin of Loose-leaf Tea
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    Blog 109: The Origin of Loose-leaf Tea

    (In recent months, we noticed that there are some tea businesses and tea bloggers who regularly visit our blog and repost/rewrite our...
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    Blog 108: Pre-soaking Your Tea?
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    Blog 108: Pre-soaking Your Tea?

    Occasionally, we get the following question from our tea lover community: Do your teas need “decanting/waking/pre-soaking/Xing Cha/醒茶?”...
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    Blog 107: Clay Tea Pots Can Ruin Your Tea
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    Blog 107: Clay Tea Pots Can Ruin Your Tea

    Making a good tea is hard. From the harvest to the tea-making, tea makers must carefully process every single fresh leaf accordingly....
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    Blog 106: Why Do Wuyi Oolong Have A Late Harvest?
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    Blog 106: Why Do Wuyi Oolong Have A Late Harvest?

    Just days ago, the official 2019 spring harvest guide was published by Wuyishan Bureau of Tea (武夷山茶叶局). In this guide, the bureau...
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    Blog 105: What’s the Real Handcrafted Tea?
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    Blog 105: What’s the Real Handcrafted Tea?

    In industrial age, hand-made things become rare and expensive. A luxury Mercedes-Benz can cost as low as $30,000, but a “handcrafted”...
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    Blog 104: Buying 2019’s Silver Needle Already?
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    Blog 104: Buying 2019’s Silver Needle Already?

    Recently, we published a general guidance to our 2019 spring tea harvest schedule. In this blog, we’ve listed our harvest schedule of...
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    Blog 103: What Defines A Good Black Tea?
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    Blog 103: What Defines A Good Black Tea?

    In English, black tea has a controversial name. Because in its birthplace China, “black tea” is actually called “red tea” (Chinese: 红茶,...
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    Blog 102: Understand The Spring Harvest
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    Blog 102: Understand The Spring Harvest

    This year’s spring harvest is just around the corner. In our tea mountains, tea leaves are growing flourishingly. They have been...
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    Blog 101: How Do We Protect and Enhance Our Tea Mountains?
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    Blog 101: How Do We Protect and Enhance Our Tea Mountains?

    Tea production is agricultural, which means it must follow certain natural rules to be sustainable. But unlike many other essential food...
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    Blog 100: A Tea Maker’s Guide to Tea’s Nutrient Contents
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    Blog 100: A Tea Maker’s Guide to Tea’s Nutrient Contents

    Today’s blog marks a small milestone for us. This is our 100th tea blog. When we started this blog last year, we didn’t expect to be able...
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    Blog 99: Why Can Aged White Tea Be Brewed But Not Over-steeped?
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    Blog 99: Why Can Aged White Tea Be Brewed But Not Over-steeped?

    There are multiple ways to enjoy a white tea. In fact, white tea is the most versatile in terms of the tea experience. White tea can be...
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    Blog 98: Visible Caffeine on Tea Leaves?
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    Blog 98: Visible Caffeine on Tea Leaves?

    There are few teas have white tea leaves. In fact, among all major teas, only white tea has white leaves. White tea’s white color doesn’t...
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    Blog 97: The Naming of Tea Mountain Fields (Wuyi Oolong/Yancha)
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    Blog 97: The Naming of Tea Mountain Fields (Wuyi Oolong/Yancha)

    The naming of premium teas often carries the name of the tea-producing region. For example, the famous Wuyi oolong tea (or Yancha/武夷岩茶)...
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