source www.goomtee.com There are several points along the route that tea takes from bush to grocer’s shelf where some assessment of its quality is called for. It spite of the rapid growth of technological improvements in the production of tea, no scientific analysis yet devised can replace the judgement of an expert tea taster after […]

Shincha Fest in Diepholz, Northern Germany On Saturday, May 21, we set out at 5 a.m. to the Shincha Fest organized by our German partners from Keiko Shimodozono. This event was a celebration of both the arrival of so-called “new tea” (shincha) from Japanese First Flushes and the opening of new company premises in the […]

Our friends who now travel through Korea as well as tea producers we met last year during our journey are informing us about tea harvest development. The season usually starts in April.

This article is a summary of many rounds of tea degustation we got through to select and choose the best of fresh teas from Darjeeling and Nepal. Wa have tasted the first Darjeelings in middle of March at the moment the embargo was still happening. The FF export embargo was luckily ended at the end of March. The tea samples from Nepal came a bit later and next are on the way. The nepalese season always starts a bit later than in Darjeeling.