From here on out, I’m aiming to show more of what really goes on behind the scenes at J-Tea. Not just the polished final products, but the unfiltered reality of running a small tea business. If…

Recently, I was asked, “Why Taiwan and not China for tea?”. My focus is Taiwan tea. That doesn’t mean I don’t sell tea from China or that I am not interested in tea from China. There would be no Taiwa…

Welcome to a blog series listing the tools I use every time I brew gong fu cha. Another small but essential tea tool for an awesome gong fu tea session is the tea cloth. There are two types of cl…

I have a problem with the way people use the word ceremony. A better word is practice. One never master's something unpracticed. Practice is nothing more than the act of doing something each day for a…

I have a few books on tea that I got in Taiwan. One in particular has really nice illustrations and a wealth of information on cultivars, and growing and processing tea. At first glance, it seemed lik…