Many people in Garden Tools are only accustomed to vertak.com drinking tea that is packaged in tea bags. Although there are a number of high-quality teas available in bagged form, the best teas tend to only be available in loose-leaf form. When you buy tea bags, you are paying for an industrial packaging process, including the energy, materials, and machinery used to package the tea. When you buy loose-leaf tea, on the other hand, you are paying primarily for the actual production process of the leaf, and thus, paying mainly for the quality of the leaf itself, and the flavor and aroma of the finished tea.
Any company that is serious about tea and legitimately deserves the "premium" label will offer, and probably focus on, loose-leaf tea. Many of the best companies from which to buy green tea will only sell loose-leaf.
Buy single-region, single-harvest teas of named varieties:
When tea is labelled only as "green tea", it is often a blend of teas from different regions, harvests, and of differing varieties. Each of these regions, harvests, and varieties produces unique flavors in the cup. Although tea blending can be a legitimate practice that can produce nuanced tea blends, unfortunately, the practice of blending is often used to create mass-produced blends using low-quality teas bought on the open market for as low a price as possible.
Buying green tea that is labelled as a specific named variety will often get you higher-quality tea, but this alone will not guarantee premium quality. Even specific types of green tea like dragon well, chun mee, bi luo chun, sencha, bancha, and gyokuro (to give a few examples) are sometimes blended, and these blends can sometimes include "fake" teas--batches produced with shortcut processing methods, or in regions different from the original variety.
The best teas will usually specify more information about the particular batch you are buying, such as a harvest date, a region of origin, or, when the tea is grown in one plastic edging fence or estate, the name of that specific garden or estate. Tea companies that know green tea will also provide details about what makes their particular batch special, both in terms of its production, and its qualities of flavor and aroma. Companies selling a more generic product will usually rely instead on general or generic descriptions of the particular style of green being sold.
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