Collection: Artisan Loose Leaf Teas

To be called “artisanal”, a product has to be planned and realized by tea artisans, according to their intensions. Of course, as the word artisan suggests, a high degree of skill is required. Accordingly, artisanal tea can only be mostly handmade tea. Even more so, every tea type has some crucial processing steps that should only be handmade, for a tea to be called artisanal. In the case of green tea or yellow tea, we are of the opinion that artisanal tea equals handmade tea.

What about a product made with first quality leaves, entirely done by expert hands, except for one step accomplished with the help of some electrically powered machine? We know some tea artisans we respect a lot, who prefer to roll their leaves with an automatic tea kneading machine. They don’t do it because it is easier, but because they like the result better. Their teas are among the very best in their category. Not calling them artisanal would be a mistake.