As promised, here is a photo of the trophy we received for the first-place award won by Lightly Roasted Iced Green Tea in this year’s North American Green Tea Championship. Our acceptance speech is short and simple: Thank you to all of our customers f…
9Jun13
New trophy photo
Our Lightly Roasted Iced Green Tea has won 1st place once again at the North American Tea Championship, making two consecutive years that our iced green has received the judges’ highest score in its class there.We will post photos of the award or plaqu…
8Apr13
Surprise snow on Mt. Aso
I just received this photo of a suddenly snow-covered Mt. Aso that greeted a surprised populace Saturday morning. It’s so unusual to get snow after the cherry blossoms have bloomed, the sender commented.Aso’s tea plants are due to be harvested in anoth…
6Mar13
About freshness
A customer today asked why our tea doesn’t come stamped with expiration dates. This is a completely understandable question, so I wanted to share my answer, as follows:All of our tea is packaged by the artisans themselves, and they do not add expiratio…
Over at Sage and Spice, multitalented Danielle Pigeon has reviewed Frosty Garden™, Mellow Monk’s shiraore*.This comes on the heels of her most thoughtful review of Monk’s Choice™, so we are profusely grateful to Dani for helping to get the word out…
Tea drinker, photographer, and belly dancer Dani Pigeon has written a review of our Monk’s Choice green tea — a review thoughtful and thorough as befitting a person so renaissancical [pretty sure that's a word]. —Mellow Monk blog feed…
The SororiTea Sisters really like our Yuzu Dream. We are honored. —Mellow Monk blog feed, facebook, reviews, steepster, teas, tweets, videos
22Oct12
Single estate, defined
We received an inquiry asking what “single estate” means and whether our tea is single estate. Here is the answer we sent.Thank you for getting in touch.All of our tea is single estate, meaning a single artisan grows it, harvests the leaves, and crafts…
11Aug12
Shaded Leaf wins at the NATC
We just received news that our Shaded Leaf green tea won 3rd place in the Steamed Green Tea division of the 2012 North American Tea Championship.We would like to thank the Academy . . . I mean the NATC judges and everyone else involved for their hard w…
Kate over at the Sagaci-Tea blog reports how she liked our Yuzu Dream. Thanks, Kate!You can also read other reviews of our tea on our Reviews page. —Mellow Monk blog feed, facebook, reviews, steepster, teas, tweets, videos
