Your friendly guide to
serious tea drinking. 🍵
Explore teas, tools, and techniques
to help you navigate the tea world.
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Our Original Water Formula
Do you buy bottled water for tea? Use our mineral concentrate to replace it.
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Springtide Water Formula
Inspired by Japan’s soft spring waters.
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Chinese Oolong Study Set
Get guidance as you navigate China’s diverse variety of oolongs. A curated tasting set with video tastings.
Nice to meet you!
We’re Rie and Steven, and we’re here to share everything we’ve learned about tea — so you can make the most of this beautiful, expansive world, too.
Around these parts we share our best tea techniques developed over 12+ years of serious tea study, industry work, and tea travel (here’s us on Yushan in Taiwan!). Community is a big part of our work, and we share our practice with an extended network of tea nerds around the world.
And hey, if a couple of tea nerds like us can find our way around, I think you can too, friend. Let's grow deeper in tea together. 🌏
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ON THE BLOG
How To Use Water To Influence Tea Flavor
Is your water holding you back from brewing amazing tea? Learn how water can affect flavor compounds, and how to use good water to brew better tea.
Little Island, Big Tea Game: The Guide to Taiwanese Tea
Get to know what makes Taiwanese tea so special — a unique tea culture and some of its most famous and iconic teas.
The In-depth Guide to Silver Needle White Tea
China's most famous white tea is also one of its most misunderstood. Decode the world of Bai Hao Yin Zhen in this in-depth tea guide.
Get confident with tea.
Tea recommendations are great and all, but you gotta learn to trust yourself, too!
Learn how to sort through the noise and spot FANTASTIC teas with our free, 16-page tea guide
with tips for your unique tea buying personality plus our methods for critically evaluating new teas. These methods work for anything from classic Chinese white teas to funky Indian sheng. Enjoy!