by D.O. Rothenberg | Dec 4, 2021 | Tea Education
“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho famously has the line, “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.” In the Wu Mountain sphere of content creativity, a good thing recently occurred for...
by D.O. Rothenberg | Oct 12, 2021 | Effects on Human Health, History & Culture, Major Types & Sub-Types, Processing, Tasting & Quality Assessment, Tea Education
‘Puer’ (or pu’er, pu’erh, or 普洱 – pronounced pooh like the bear, and arhh like a pirate)… means multiple things. Firstly, it’s a place in China. As most places in China, Puer regional history is recounted with millennia rather than centuries. It’s a Southwest border...
by D.O. Rothenberg | Oct 4, 2019 | Best Infusion Practices, Effects on Human Health, Tasting & Quality Assessment, Tea Education
Warm tea, warm heart Researchers from the world-renowned, world-class institution, University of Colorado at Boulder (my alma mater. Go Buffs) conducted an experiment which found that participants judged others differently depending on the temperature of the beverage...
by D.O. Rothenberg | Oct 3, 2019 | Best Infusion Practices, Effects on Human Health, Tasting & Quality Assessment, Tea Education
“Caution: Contents Hot!” The ubiquitous warning label reminding us that our hot things are hot. As the story goes, an ill-fated woman discovered the hard way in a McDonalds parking lot in 1994 that hot coffee spilled on the lap causes burns. On the one side,...
by D.O. Rothenberg | Oct 1, 2019 | History & Culture, Major Types & Sub-Types, Tea Culture, Tea Education, Tea Plant Biology & Cultivation
A sign in Nannuo that reads, “please protect the ancient tea trees, do not pluck without permission” To my astonishment, there were 300-year-old, lichen-laden wild tea trees scattered across the mountain in all directions. The high canopy provided shade,...
