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Expert, fully-sourced guides on brewing, health, history and science. Honest reviews, recipes worth making, and a living map of 1,091 tea estates — all free, in plain English.
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Six ways in. Whether you want to brew a better cup, buy the right kit, or understand the global trade — start here.
800+ guides on brewing science, history, health and tea culture.
Explore guides →Honest, independent reviews of teas, teaware and kitchen kit.
See our picks →Lattes, iced teas, bakes and blends — with the science behind them.
Get cooking →An interactive map of 1,000+ estates and gardens worldwide.
Open the map →Premium downloadable guides and professional industry reports.
Visit the Vault →Handy calculators and helpers for buyers, brewers and collectors.
Try the tools →A good place to start — some of our most popular, most useful guides.
White, green, oolong, black, dark and yellow — how one leaf becomes six very different teas, and why it matters for everything you brew.
Does tea really have more caffeine than coffee? The science, settled.
Smooth, sustained focus vs the spike-and-crash — hour by hour.
From an ancient remedy to a global commodity — tea's journey through time.
Master water quality, temperature and steeping time to get the best from any leaf.
The science-backed benefits, from heart health and brain function to antioxidants.
Go deeper than the free library. Professional, fully-sourced handbooks and B2B intelligence — from entry-level enthusiast guides to our flagship market reports. Every title has a free edition to preview.
Our flagship B2B report: production, auction prices, trade flows and a bottom-up market model with a five-year forecast to 2030.
A mid-year nowcast: month-by-month H1 2026 prices, the matcha supply crunch, revised forecasts and an H2 outlook.
Yancha cultivars, terroir and charcoal roasting — sourcing, economics and extraction for serious buyers.
Sourcing, curing and caring for kyūsu and Japanese teapots — clay chemistry, provenance, economics and ritual.
Choose the right filter or softener for better extraction and longer appliance life — for home and trade.
Science-backed temperature and timing protocols for consistent, repeatable extraction across every tea type.
Master TDS, pH, hardness and mineral balance to dial in water for any leaf — with remineralisation recipes.
Storage, authentication and provenance — protect and grow the value of an ageing pu-erh collection.
Tea brewing is chemistry. Control temperature, ratio, time and water for a perfect cup of any tea.
Source, grade and profit from ceremonial matcha — cultivar chemistry, defect spotting and recipe costing.
Pair tea like a sommelier — how tannins, catechins and aromatics meet fat, protein, sugar and acid.
Interactive
Pan and zoom across more than 1,000 tea estates and gardens worldwide. Discover the regions, the terroir and the stories behind every cup.
Why TeaTrade
We built the resource we wished existed: independent research, primary sources and real production data from every tea-growing country on Earth — written in plain English, free for everyone.
No sponsored rankings and no pay-to-play. If something is recommended here, it earned its place on merit.
Health and brewing claims are checked against published research — and we show our working, every time.
1,091 estates researched and mapped, from Assam to Argentina, with climate and production context behind each one.
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