I “heart” the Doke tea estate.

No, I’m not ashamed to use the word “heart” instead of “love”. Especially today. Okay, I winced a tiny bit at the grammatical incorrectness of it (and the cutesiness of it) . […]

I’ve written a lot about Russian tea gardens over the last couple of years.

But I didn’t think, for one second (at the time), that I was one of the only English language sources on the subject. That is, […]

One uneventful day, I was checking out the Arakai Tea Estate’s Instagram feed, and I noticed this picture.

Simply put, they were showing how their black tea was rolled. They also left a humorous anecdote […]

Two months ago, I wrote about two teas from The Arakai Tea Estate. They’re a family-owned tea garden/forestry farm situated in Bellthorpe, Queensland, Australia. I was notably impressed with what I tasted. Just as […]

I spent a lot of money last October. A loooot of money. Like, “had-to-get-a-second-job-for-two-months” lot of money. The reason? Northwest Tea Festival.

Train tickets, hotel stay, Uber rides, class/tasting […]

One of the biggest challenges to tea blogger productivity . . . is the Internet.

Yes, all of it.

While social media is the biggest time-suck—keeping me away from what little writery discipline I p […]

Four years ago, I “discovered” the Harendong estate.

I put “discovered” in air-quotes because . . . it’d been there for eight years by the time I ran across it. Perhaps I should say, it was new to me. They […]