Category Archives: Tea Events

Mark the date.  It’s next weekend – November 14 & 15.  We actually opened our doors November 6, 1999.  It is now officially 10 years!  Hurrah!  Let us thank you for our ten years.  We will be donating 10% of all proceeds from the weekend to a local Charity.  So come for lunch, spend big, start [...]

Teapot trinkets? Yup. They exist. And I found several new books on tea, some of which we may order for our store. Some of these new tall infuser mugs may find a home in our Tea Room too. Several countries were represeted – The Tea Board of India, several Sri Lankan companies, a large contingent [...]

I met up with Lorraine Morris from The Birds and the Teas, a relatively new entrant to the world of tea. Lorraine was there to attend the 2-day tea certification course and met up with me after I taught my class, “How to Conduct a Successful Tea Tasting”. I also saw my good friends Mim [...]

I’m just back from Las Vegas where the World Tea Expo held its 2009 annual trade show. Compared to 2008 which was larger than life, this year, I found this year’s show sparsely attended with a pronounced lack of energy. Nonetheless, the companies that had chosen to exhibit had some striking, almost whimsical, ways of [...]