It takes a village

June 27, 2015

They say it takes a village to raise a child, but in the case of the Kinezuka family, it takes one tea farmer with a vision to raise the village. High up in the mountains of the small Japanese v...

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A bicycle, a bomb and a great grandfather...

May 01, 2015

It’s the early 1920s in Fukuoka, Japan. A young man, with aspirations of becoming a renowned tea merchant is carefully packing tea into the basket of his bicycle. All day, every day, he cycles thro...

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Why tea?

April 12, 2015

Founder and Certified Tea Master, Alison Dillon shares her tea journey and explains how Cup Above came about. I’ve always loved tea, but in terms of my professional tea development, I suppose I sh...

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The stories we drink

March 21, 2014

Let’s start off with a couple of questions. If you can answer them in detail, and with confidence, then perhaps there is no need for Cup Above Tea after all. If some of the questions bring you up ...

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