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Monday, July 21, 2008

Unglazed yixing teapot was first created in the 1500 which is called zisha or the purple sand. It was found to keep the tea hotter than porcelain teapots. This reddish brown or green yixing teapots have become very popular in Asian countries like China and Japan.

This unglazed teapot is thought to bring out the flavor of Chinese teas and indeed, tea fanatics still adore this lovely yixing teapot as of this day.

Let your new teapot get "seasoned". A new teapot needs a little time to acquire a lining which will give its own seasoned flavor to your tea. This is also the main reason why you should only brew the same type of tea on the same teapot all the time.

Yixing teapots are sometimes decorated with all sorts of shapes such as the lotus flower, narcissus, fruits, bamboo trunks and so on.


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Monday, July 14, 2008


In 1993, about 155 years after those first tea arrived in London, Assam's 2000 gardens produced a record 444,231.8 tons.

Today, tea is grown on both sides of the largest black tea-producing region which is the Brahmaputra Valley. This valley lies 120 miles east of Darjeeling and Borders of China, Burma, and Bangladesh.

The tea growing areas in this valley benefited from a very high rainfall about 79 to 118 inches per year. During this time of heavy rains, the temperature rises to approximately 103 degrees Fahrenheit. This resembles a greenhouse effect. Because of this temperature which is a combination of humidity and heat arrives the finest varieties of tea in the world called Assam tea.

Assam tea has different categories namely first flush assam, second flush assam, assam blend, and assam green.


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