Mountains and landscape of Pu'er city in China's Yunnan province

Connecting: tea, art landscape, music and food

Canton Tea Club Week 81: White Puerh Silver Buds  I will mention this week’s Tea Club tea briefly...
Samabeong tea plucker in Darjeeling

What makes a tea black, green or oolong?

Canton Tea Club Week 67: Darjeeling First Flush ‘Himalayan Secret’ can this really be a black tea...
The gate of Amba Tea Estate in Sri Lanka

Amba Estate, Sri Lanka: Beverly Wainwright interview

Canton Tea Club Week 64: Amba Hand Rolled Green I first met Beverly Wainwright in London 18 month...
Tea expert Phil Mumby outside Itakhooli Tea Estate in Assam

Raspberry Jam, Tea and creaming down

Canton Tea Club Week 62: Itakhooli RJ Special Assam tea, Cream and Raspberry Jam – things aren’t ...
Canton Tea founder, Jennifer, inspecting the tea leaves

A trip to Fu'an and Golden Monkey Tea

Canton Tea Club Week 43: Jin Mao Hou (Golden Monkey) Whilst in Fu’an (Fujian) on the quest for fl...
Birdseye view of sugar cane fields and a truck filled with the sugar cane

Fu Shou Mei red sugar fired black tea

Canton Tea Club Week 40: Fu Shou Mei (Red Sugar Fired Black Tea) This week we have one of the mor...
Tong Mu Village in the Wuyi Mountains in China's Fujian Province

Canton Tea Club Week 39: Original Lapsang Souchong

Jen and I were lucky enough to visit Tong Mu, a small village in the heart of a protected reserve...
Portrait of the Kangxi Emperor in court dress

The history of tea

Canton Tea Club Week 26 This week I set out to write a piece about the history of tea in Yunnan, ...
An elephant walking through The Marionbarie Tea Estate

Canton Tea Club Week 16: Terai Black

The Marionbarie Tea Estate is situated in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal, India, but fall...
Mountains in Guangdong Province, China

Canton Tea Club Week 10: Mi Lan Dan Cong

As you’ve probably guessed by now, we all love Mi Lan Dan Cong. Alongside Week 2′s tea (Pouchong)...
Taiwanese tea fields and landscape

Canton Tea Club Week 8: The battle of the shans

Ali Shan and Li Shan: Elevate your tea experience Good quality Taiwanese high mountain oolongs ar...
Hawaiian Oolong tea grower Mike Riley smiling in tea field

Canton Tea Club Week 6: Hawaiian Mauka Oolong

Following on from the Hawaiian green last week, we bring you another tea from Hawaii: an oolong m...
Hawaiian tea producers Eva and Chiu

Canton Tea Club Week 5: Hawaiian Volcano Green

The first sip of the Volcano Green was a revelation to all of us: a moment of pure tropical bliss...
Darjeeling tea garden worker on the Arya Tea Estate

Canton Tea Club Week 4: Arya Diamond Second Flush Darjeeling

Perched 1500m above sea level on the lush green mountains in the Darjeeling region of West Bengal...
Chinese tea picker sorting tea leaves

Canton Tea Club Week 3: Xing Ren Dan Cong

Tea lover and writer Geoffrey Norman kindly agreed to write a history of his personal love affair...
Jane Pettigrew

Jane Pettigrew introduces Indian Green Twirl Tea

Canton Tea Club Week 1: Green Twirl We are delighted to launch the Canton Tea Club with an Indian...
a £1.2 million 1948 Yixing zisha (purple clay) teapot made by master ceramicist Gu Jingzhou

Yixing Teapot: Empire of the senses

In May 2010, a 1948 Yixing zisha (purple clay) teapot made by master ceramicist Gu Jingzhou sold ...
Harrods Ladies Club in 1919

Tea and Women – how the Tearoom supported women’s suffrage

You may have seen tea expert Jane Pettigrew on the BBC Great Sport Relief Bake Off recently, expl...
Woman sat on sofa with cup of tea on a sunny morning

Tea and caffeine - myth and truth

We receive many questions about tea and its caffeine content. Unfortunately for the curious tea-d...
Canton Yiwu Puerh compressed tea cakes

Canton Tea Special Puerh review

Elliot: It’s always nice to see when Western tea vendors begin collecting mao cha and pressing th...
A cup of Bao Hao Yinzhen (Silver Needle White Tea)

How a wimp wrestled with white tea

Guest Blogger: Geoffrey Norman Most people begin their tea journey with the obvious – the square-...
Canton Yixing teapots

Yixing and Puerh

When Canton Director Jennifer Wood visited China in May 2011, she brought back with her eight han...
White ceramic Taiwan on table

Going, Going…Gaiwan

Guest blogger: Geoffrey Norman Let’s backtrack to the year 2005, the birth of my tea exploration....
1746 map showing Exchange Alley, where tea was first sold in England

Teas of the eighteenth century: English tea trade

Guest blogger: Markmann Ellis Markman Ellis is Professor of Eighteenth Century Studies at Queen ...
Benedict Cumberbatch examines Canton Yixing teapots in season 1 episode 2 "The Blind Banker" of BBC's Sherlock

Starring role for Canton’s Yixing teapots in BBC Sherlock

As seen on TV Just before producing their last series, the production team for Sherlock (the new ...
A boat on a lake in Chunan, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

A virtuous indulgence

Great to get the fresh teas in late last week and spent the weekend steeped in the glorious stuff...