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New to Tea
New to tea? You’ve come to the right place. Check out these posts to get started in the world of tea. Also check out the Tea Newbie playlist on our YouTube page.
The best tasting water comes directly from a remote hole in the ground. Fresh from the earth.
 1) Start with a Wabi Sabi |
 2) Add 1-2 tbs of Sencha |
 3) Add 2 oz. of cold water |
 4) Steep for 2 minutes |
 5) Decant |
 6) Fill the Wabi Sabi with 170F water |
 7) Steep for ~10 sec. then pour |
 8) Enjoy! |
All the tea and teaware shown here is available in our online shop
 1) Start with fresh, hot water |
 2) Add 1-2 tbs of tea per 8oz. |
 3) Pour the hot water |
 4) Steep 1st infusion 15-30 seconds |
 5) Remove the basket |
 6) Enjoy and repeat. |
All the teaware shown here is available in our online shop
 1) Hot water, gaiwan, & cup |
 2) Add 1-2 tablespoons of tea |
 3) Add hot water |
 4) Cover and steep for 15-30 sec. |
 5) Pour with index finger on top |
 6) Enjoy. Then repeat. |
All the teaware shown here is available in our online shop
Tea Ware 101:
Getting into tea means being introduced to a whole new world of vessels and tools to brew tea with. In this video, Jesse Jacobs walks you through several tea making implements, so that you may become a confident and educated tea ware buyer.
Tea is hot!
Join Jesse Jacobs, owner of Samovar Tea Lounge, as he talks to tea enthusiast, Christine Savage about the different kinds of tea. A quick lesson in Tea.
Teas in this video…. White Tea, Green Tea, Oolong Tea, Black Tea, Pu-erh Tea, Herbal Infusions.
Picking. Sorting. Steaming. Firing. Twisting. Oxidizing.
All of these techniques and more are used to produce the best tasting tea. Learn more about how the perfect leaf becomes the perfect sip.
All tea is made from the same plant.
Yes, you read right, all tea, whether it’s black, oolong, green, white, or pu-erh, comes from the Camellia sinensis plant in the same way that all wine comes from the grape, albeit different varietals.
Like wine, different tea leaf varietals have developed in different geographic locations. Each tea varietal’s unique characteristics are the result of the human selection, soil composition, and local weather patterns.
Processing makes all the difference.
Processing the tea in different ways creates different kinds of teas. (Just for the record, we need to differentiate between tea and herbal infusions. The former is what we’re describing here, the latter is a beverage made from herbs and plants such as lavender, chamomile, rooibos, lemongrass, and osmanthus.)
This is the transcript from our Tea TV Episode: Tea 101
Jesse Jacobs: I’m Jesse Jacobs and I’m here today with Christine Savage of Samovar Tea Lounge, and we’re here to talk abut tea, of which we are looking quite a few types and let’s start with just Tea 101, Christine.
Christine Savage: As you see, all of these teas really look different from each other. But all tea is made from the same plant, this plant is Camellia sinensis and it’s a plant indigenous to the China, Burma, Northern Vietnam, Assam region of the world.
What distinguishes each kind of tea from one another is the way that it’s processed.
Jesse Jacobs: So these are all the same plant, just processed differently?