[30.12.2003, 18:00]
Dear Friends, ... The coffeetea.ru wishes you Happy Holidays and a Healthy New Year 2004 and may the new year bring you many new experiences and valuable discoveries in the coffee and tea field!
See you soon in the new year January 5, 2004!

[22.12.2003, 11:00]
Wonder Tea Pots for Wonder Tea ... It is a common knowledge that it is China that turned the usual process of drinking tea into the art.
Ardent adherents to “make everything correct” prefer to buy not only the real Chinese tea but also tea articles like a tea whisk, small cups and of course a tea pot - the real Chinese tea pot, made to all rules of the art. A small city of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, famous due to a unique type of clay, has a name “The Capital of Pottery”. The characteristic of original Yixing pottery is tea pots of non-absorbent, unglazed, colour clay. The beginning of Yixing pottery culture may be traced back to the ancient times. But unfortunately very few pieces of pottery of that era have remained till our days. The legend has it that the beginning of the Yixing pottery is dated as far back as 400 years BC, when Fan Li, an official of Yue, established potteries in the region and since then was known as Tao zhugong (the Master of Red Ceramics). The raw material of Yixing ceramics, tea pots in particular, is mainly so called purple clay, which is really of various colours. Even nowadays tea pots of red, green and gray colour with the shape of fruits, flowers and dragons are handmade in Yixing. //Proua.com//