How to Choose Tea by Flavour
Translate familiar flavours into a useful tea shortlist. Learn the difference between tasting notes, added flavourings, body, roast and sweetness.
The MountTea Journal
Simple beginnings, better brewing, and stories behind the leaves. Explore Chinese and Taiwanese tea, one cup at a time.
Translate familiar flavours into a useful tea shortlist. Learn the difference between tasting notes, added flavourings, body, roast and sweetness.
Choose your next tea through meaningful contrasts: fresh versus aged, floral versus roasted, or two origins within a familiar style.
Choose Chinese green tea by processing, harvest and flavour. Brew Long Jing with a measured recipe and recognise freshness without judging colour alone.
Understand hong cha, the Chinese red tea family called black tea in English. Compare Yunnan styles and brew for sweetness without overextracting.
Understand white tea through leaf selection, withering and storage. Compare fresh Bai Mu Dan with aged styles and adjust brewing to the actual leaf.
Navigate oolong through oxidation, roast and leaf shape. Compare light high mountain styles with roasted teas using recipes suited to each.
Understand raw and ripe pu-erh as different processing routes. Learn what age and storage do, how to brew a first sample, and what to ask before buying.
Understand the low-oxygen processing behind GABA oolong, how style affects flavour, and why the name does not guarantee caffeine levels or a calming effect.
Decode cultivar, style, origin, harvest and production year. Know which details help you compare teas and which claims need more evidence.
Discover Taiwanese high-mountain oolong, its floral character, gongfu brewing methods and how to choose tea for daily sessions or gifts.
Choose aged pu-erh tea cakes by storage, style, vintage and condition, and learn how to prepare them in a gongfu tea session.
Learn how to choose ripe pu-erh by assessing aroma, leaf quality, age, storage and flavour, then find a shu pu-erh that suits your taste.
Buy Chinese tea online in Portugal with confidence. Explore loose-leaf pu-erh, oolong, white tea and gongfu teaware for your daily tea ritual.