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Australia's bushfire seasons raise an obvious question for the tea grown under the same skies. We set out what is documented about smoke taint, what is borrowed from wine science, and what remains unknown for tea.
by Sameera
In the rolling green hills of the Waikato, a singular experiment has been quietly unfolding for nearly three decades. Zealong is New Zealand's only commercial tea estate—certified organic, and rewriting what we thought possible about terroir far from Asia.
by Sameera
Discover Taiwan's high mountain oolongs from Alishan and Li Shan, and the roasted Dong Ding style that sits alongside them. What makes these teas special, how they taste, and how to buy them with confidence.
by Sameera
Two regions, hundreds of years apart in tradition, now define Japanese specialty tea. Here's what makes Uji and Shizuoka utterly distinct—and why Australian tea drinkers are finally paying attention.
by Sameera
One of the largest tea-growing regions in the world produced about 650 million kilos of made tea in 2024. Inside the Indian floodplain that fills your morning mug.
by Sameera
Kenya is the world's largest exporter of black tea — and almost no one outside the trade can name a single Kenyan estate. A look at tea's most under-recognised power.
by Sameera
From Daintree rainforest to the New South Wales hinterland, a small but ambitious Australian tea industry is producing world-class single-origin teas.
by Sameera
Ceylon was a coffee island until leaf rust, first reported in 1869, devastated the plantations. Tea—already planted commercially in 1867—took over, and one of the world's great tea regions was born.
by Sameera
A short train ride south of Kyoto, a riverbank town has been growing some of the world's finest tea for 800 years—and shaded matcha for about 400 of them. A guide to Uji.
by Sameera
The tea forests of Yunnan are home to trees that local tradition counts in centuries. A journey to the misty homeland of Camellia sinensis.
by Sameera
Tucked between the Black and Caspian Seas, the Caucasian republic of Georgia has been growing tea since the 1840s — and almost nobody outside the region knows it.
by Sameera
We travel to the first-flush gardens of West Bengal to meet the hands behind the world's most delicate black tea.
by Sameera
From high-mountain Dong Ding to the global juggernaut of boba — Taiwan punches far above its weight in tea culture.
by Sameera
