What Is Anji Bai Cha? The Famous Chinese Green Tea Mistaken for White Tea
Despite its name, Anji Bai Cha is not a white tea, but one of China’s most famous green teas. Learn its fascinating history, unique pale leaves, and why its umami-rich...
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Tea Hair Fragrance or Hao Xiang - What You Need to Know About Aged Silver Needles White Tea
Silver needles are the highest grade of all white teas and is highly sought after amongst white tea lovers. It is versatile and can be enjoyed either fresh or aged....
Video: How to Properly Break Off Leaves From a New Tea Cake
Learn how to properly and safely break off the leaves of a new tea cake through this helpful instructional video featuring Victoria of Meimei Fine Teas.
A Perfect Circle: Tasting the 2013 Fuding White Peony Natural Beauty Cake
History: Fuding County in Fujian Province is not just a core-producing area for white tea; it is the place that gave birth to the white tea we know today, beginning...
Caffeine and Your Tea: Myths and Misconceptions
There are a surprisingly large number of people with caffeine sensitivities. Even when exposed to low amounts, these people will experience the effects from it, suffering from sleep disturbances or...
A Brief History of the World’s Oldest Tea: White Tea
White tea is renowned for being the least processed kind of tea, even less so than green tea. Crafting a white tea usually involves just a few simple steps —...
If Your Tea Doesn’t Taste Right, You May Be Making One of the Most Common Mistakes
Following up last week’s blog on some of the most important elements that affect your perfect cup of tea, we decided to complement that advice by zeroing in on an all-too-common...
What Goes Into a Good Jasmine Tea?
It isn’t easy to find a good Jasmine tea. As a tea buyer, we have to think about the base for the tea, the quality of the flowers, and the...
Two Tips for the Perfect Cup of Tea in the Spring
For so many of us, our desires for food and drink mirror the mood of the season. As the temperature cools, for instance, we tend to reach for warmer foods...
MeiMei Fine Teas is Awarded a Silver Medal in 2018 Global Tea Championship
Each year, the Global Tea Championship features a diverse and large number of entrants representing a handful of categories. This year’s tasting competition took place in Boulder, Colorado on March...
The Colors of Our Teas – A Quick and Friendly Guide to Tea Types
Tea comes in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and colors, ranging from the ethereal and mysterious Moonlight White tea to the rich and earthy Lao Liu Bao dark tea. To...
Thanksgiving's Blessings and Nature's Great Gift
What was once one of the most celebrated holidays in the United States next to Christmas has become an increasingly discussed subject of controversy. Most of us are familiar with...
New Harvest Spring White and Black Teas
Last week, we briefly reviewed some of our latest green tea offerings for this season, and so this week, we turned our attention to our newest white and black teas....
Some Ideas to Pair Your Favorite Food with Tea
Tea can be enjoyed on nearly every occasion, but perhaps one of the best times to unwind with your favorite cup is when you get a chance to pair it...
Exploring the Depths of Aged White Tea
Aged white tea is a strange concept to many in the West. We’ve become very familiar with puerhs and many of us understand how well they tend to age over...
How Tea is Made
Sometimes when we see the price of high-quality tea, we wonder whether it’s worth it. We think the taste speaks for itself, but that’s not the only thing that’s taken...
Fuding Silver Needle Chinese White Tea: Bai Hao Yi Zhen
Silver Needle white tea is often known as the “king” of white tea, and for good reasons. In terms of appearance, Silver Needle white tea has a beautiful, uniform appearance,...
The Health Benefits of White Tea
There is a Chinese saying about Fuding white tea: "year one a tea, year three a medicine, and year seven a treasure". Chinese folk tradition used white tea to help...
How Many Types of White Tea
In our previous blog The True Origin of White Tea, we know that white tea has gained its popularity in recent decades and has been grown in other parts of China...
The True Origin of Chinese White Tea
White tea is "unprocessed" tea, as after plucking, it is simply dried naturally under the sun or air-dried, depending on the weather or the producer’s preference. The making of white tea...