Tea encyclopedia
What a tea is, where it comes from, how it was made, what you brew it with, what you brew it in and how to taste it.
Styles
Every tea type, family and named style, and how to tell them apart.
Harvest seasons
The eleven terms a label uses to say when the leaf was picked, what each one actually means and why almost all of them are really saying the same thing.
Processing
The twelve steps between the bush and the tin, what each one does to the leaf and why one plant makes every tea.
Water
Hardness, minerals and the variables that change the cup before the leaf does.
Glossary
What FTGFOP, OP and CTC actually mean, where each one sits between whole leaf and dust, and the plucking and blend words a label never explains.

Start wherever your question actually is, not at the top. A cup that tastes wrong is more often down to the water, the brewing or the storage than the tea, and none of them has admitted anything yet.








