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  • Location matters for a tea garden
    September 19, 2019

    Location matters for a tea garden

    The quality of fine tea is dependent on many qualities, with sunlight, soil content, and elevation drastically effecting the finished product. A lesser known factor, however, is the direction a hill slopes while growing tea.
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  • Photo of Queen Mary
    May 23, 2014

    Queen Mary's Secret Stash of Tea

    Photo of Queen Mary

    So which tea did Queen Mary (1867-1953) so prize that she had to keep it locked in a cupboard?

    According to James Norwood Pratt, pioneer of the current tea wave in the USA, it was "a fine Darjeeling with a pronounced muscatel flavor." This was the Queen Mary Tea Twinings sold as the personal choice of the late Queen Mary, he adds, in his book The Tea Lovers' Treasury.

    A bit of internet "research" showed that Twinings had launched this tea in 1916 and discontinued it only in 2007, after over 91 years! It is amazing the brand lasted so long. But we amuse ourselves with the thought that they could have given it 10 more years and let it retire at a more auspicious and grand 100 years! That is if they had to drop this tea from their stable.

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  • What's the fuss over spring teas?
    May 19, 2012

    What's the fuss over spring teas?

    First Flush or Spring Flush (more simply, spring teas) is one of the highlights of the tea tradition. After the winter dormancy of around 3 months, new shoots from the tea bushes begin arriving around late February, in case of...

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