About this blog

  This blog aims to be about tea drinking, tea making, different types of tea, what's going on with tea and about people who enjoy tea, including me. I’m Nigel and together with my partner I started in 2007 Tiger Spring Tea a very small tea company selling and promoting loose tea (rather than tea bags). The idea was to bring the enjoyment of drinking quality loose tea into everyday life - not just for special occasions. Our name comes from happy recollections of discovering and drinking Tiger Spring tea, a famous high grade Long Jing (Dragon Well) tea. This green tea is from the Chinese province of Zhejiang and bears the name of a place of pilgrimage for all lovers of this type of tea from the Tiyun Mountains, where according to legend, the best quality water used to make this tea, comes from the Tiger Spring.