Tag: Tea Brand

Eco-Friendly Tea Packaging – Dirk Wens

Posted on by liu-tea-art.com

Wenzhuo Liu

Dirk Wens is a Belgian food packaging designer who specializes in products made from eco-friendly materials. A tea drinker, Dirk designed a single-use tea infuser product in 2024 and is currently focused on expanding into the European market while improving designs for other tea-related items. His close collaboration with Chinese factories for the last 25 years has given him insight into China’s rapid development and its active efforts in environmental protection, while also drawing his attention to Chinese tea culture and the recycling and reuse of tea packaging.

[…]

European Tea Culture – Prof. Dr. Hartwig Bohne

Posted on by liu-tea-art.com

Liu Wenzhuo

Prof. Dr. Hartwig Bohne is a professor and international expert in hotel management who is pushing for greater visibility of tea cultures from Europe, and supporting tea-related producers, brands, and attractions, e.g., tea、teaware and museums, to get connected and promoted successfully. In 2024, he took the lead in founding the European Tea Culture Institute in Berlin, Germany. As editor, he has continuously published articles and books on European tea culture, one of which was named the “World’s Best Tea Book” in 2025. He hopes these books will provide guidelines for tea-related training and education. Hartwig emphasises the role and application of tea in European hotel management and suggests ways in which Chinese tea and teaware can be integrated into European daily life.

[…]

Dresden Tea Festival – A Gathering of Local Tea Enthusiasts

Posted on by liu-tea-art.com

Wenzhuo Liu

German Elke Werner dreamed of opening a tea shop since childhood. After graduating from university, she started from scratch to realize her childhood dream. Since 2012, Elke has founded and operates a modern tea shop called Teerausch in Dresden, Germany. Unlike traditional German tea shops that focus on herbal teas, her shop mainly promotes Japanese tea. Dresden, in Elke’s view, seems to have a richer tea culture compared to other German cities. In 2025 and 2026, Elke took the lead, together with local tea merchants and enthusiasts, and successfully held the first two editions of the Dresden Tea Festival in a century-old traditional Chinese tea house in the city. The festival will continue to be held annually.

[…]

Crossover Tea People – Christian Beck

Posted on by liu-tea-art.com

Wenzhuo Liu

Christian Beck, a German who transitioned from management to the tea industry, has accumulated nearly a decade of experience in online tea sales in Germany. From 2020 to the present, collaborating with a photographer, he has successively published two books on Chinese and Japanese tea culture. In 2025, he attempted to shift his business from online to offline by trial-operating a tea event space in Augsburg, Germany, hoping to provide Germans with more ways to enjoy tea.

[…]

Latvian Tea Specialist – Gundega Silniece

Posted on by liu-tea-art.com

Wenzhuo Liu

Gundega Silniece comes from Latvia, a country on the east coast of the Baltic Sea in Europe. She runs a tea house in the center of the capital Riga and has been involved in the beverage and baking industries such as tea and coffee since 2009, organizing service activities such as food exhibitions, competitions, and teaching. The national tea drink in Latvia is herbal tea, and the younger generation today is showing an interest in high-quality tea. The tea atmosphere in Latvia and even throughout Europe is becoming more active. In June 2025, Gundega has just completed her training in China and plans to invest more energy in the tea industry in the future.

[…]

South American tea producing regions – Argentine Blended Tea

Posted on by liu-tea-art.com

Wenzhuo  Liu

Jorgelina Lezcano and her husband founded the blended tea brand Motivos in Argentina, using loose tea grown and processed in Argentina as the main ingredient, and its sales have continued to grow over the past five years. Yerba Mate tea is the national drink of Argentina, while afternoon tea customs and tea tree cultivation were only introduced to Argentina by European immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. Argentine tea farmers have always sold fresh leaves to major producers and processed them into broken tea for export. Since 2010, some tea plantation owners have begun to experiment with independent processing and production of tea products, and have established an association to develop supporting industries such as tourism in tea gardens.

[…]

North American Tea Plantation – Camellia Forest

Posted on by liu-tea-art.com

Christine Parks and her family have jointly inherited and operated the Camellia Forest Tea Gardens for two generations. The tea plantation is located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, and has been developed for over forty years, from camellia flowers to tea tree cultivation and processing. Christine collaborated with tea enthusiast Susan Walcott to publish the tea book “Growing Your Own Tea: The Complete Guide to Cultivating, Harvesting, and Preparing,” which became a must read for American family gardens and small-scale tea farmers.

[…]

New European Tea Festival Organizer

Posted on by liu-tea-art.com

Wenzhuo Liu

Maria was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay. She is a descendant of a European family that immigrated to South America in the 19th century and has European ancestry from France, Spain, Italy, and England. Maria started drinking tea since she was young. Her grandmother came from England and was once a well-known tailor. Maria recalled that she often went to her grandmother’s studio after school, where there were always British porcelain teapots waiting for her. After reaching adulthood, Maria went to Bordeaux, France to study and work in digital communication, even establishing her own company. During this period, she was exposed to tea and tea utensils from China and Japan, initially as a hobby during her leisure time. At the age of 38, she decided to close her agency, leave Bordeaux, and return to South America to open a tea house.

[…]

A new Attempt by Tea Industry Professional in Hamburg, Germany

Posted on by liu-tea-art.com

Wenzhuo Liu

Marten Verch works for food related books and is currently employed by a publishing house in Hamburg, Germany. He has work experience in tea trading companies in Hamburg and the German Tea Association. In recent years, Marten has started planting tea trees and has plans to expand tea gardens in the future. He expressed his expectations for the development of Hamburg tea culture, while sharing his understanding of the significance of the German Tea Association in the industry, as well as the opportunities and challenges that tea brands need to face in expanding overseas markets.

[…]

Tea Pope from Vienna

Posted on by liu-tea-art.com

Wenzhuo Liu

Thomas M. Grömer, from Vienna, Austria, is a successful European tea entrepreneur known as the “Tea Pope”. In the 1990s, Thomas went to Japan to study, majoring in tea at university and obtaining a Japanese tea taster certificate. In 2001, Thomas founded a tea company in Europe, which now has two tea brands and four office locations in Hamburg and Vienna. Its products are sold to 47 countries in Europe and West Africa. As a successful tea entrepreneur in Europe, Thomas has also provided business consulting services in the past two years, helping tea brands, stores, and practitioners.

[…]

Imser Str. 22 31061 Alfeld
info@liu-tea-art.com
(+49) 05181/9010891
Zerif Lite developed by ThemeIsle