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Photos by Anna Mariani<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

[T]he 9th edition of the Los Angeles Tea Festival<\/a> took place last weekend at The Reef event space in the LA Mart building located in downtown Los Angeles. With over 40 exhibitors and a comprehensive program of classes, workshops, and performances over the course of the whole weekend, the festival engaged and connected tea enthusiasts ranging from purists to casual tea drinkers with tea companies from California and beyond.<\/p>\n

Personal connections<\/h4>\n

Miguel Gonzales has attended the Los Angeles Tea Festival every year since 2016. He was positively impressed by the venue and by the good mix of exhibitors, more and more of whom are catering to the serious tea drinker.<\/p>\n

\u201cI consider myself a traditional tea drinker, I don\u2019t even know what label I\u2019d give to myself, but I like drinking tea straight,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m very fond of pu-erh, oolong, and depending on the season, if it\u2019s spring, I\u2019ll go with freshly harvested teas from China or Japan. In winter, pu-erh and oolong are usually my go-to but my favorite category is aged oolong. It\u2019s not really something that you can find here, you have to look for it online.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gonzales enjoys connecting in person with tea companies, especially those he purchases from online, and getting to know the people who sourced his favorite teas.<\/p>\n

\u201cI usually come here to buy tea, meet the vendors, interact with them,\u201d he says. \u201cWhen you buy tea online, you don\u2019t really see that person sourcing those teas and I also like that here at the festival you can actually taste some teas before you buy.\u201d<\/p>\n

New ways to experience tea<\/h4>\n

Alongside ready-to-drink tea-based beverages, kombucha, cannabis and CBD-infused tea, the ubiquitous matcha, and tea geared towards purists, including post-fermented teas, oolong, single-origin Darjeeling, Nepali, and Colombian teas, the festival showcased new ways to experience tea.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think as a trend, people are looking at ways to expand the uses and place for tea in our culture,\u201d says Cynthia Glanzberg, owner of OneTea, a local company offering sustainable and ethically sourced loose-leaf tea. \u201cFrom pairings, to tea cocktails, to different ways to experience the pure leaf itself, we’re seeing a shift to creating our own culture around tea here in the United States that’s been missing for many years.\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sharing a booth with Dandelion Chocolate, the bean-to-bar artisan chocolate maker from San Francisco, OneTea offered three tea tastings, each of which was paired with a different chocolate bar.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe do these pairings at the Dandelion Chocolate pop-up at ROW DTLA and they’ve been such a hit, so we thought it might be a fun experience for the tea lovers at the festival,\u201d says Glanzberg. \u201cThe festival attendees seemed to really enjoy what we were doing! There was a great energy surrounding our booth at all times, people were asking really smart questions and entering deep conversations amongst each other that we were happy to have sparked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tea pairings and other creative ways of experiencing tea were further explored during the festival workshops and classes, which included but were not limited to a craft tea cocktail workshop, a tea and cheese pairing class, a tea and yoga class, and a tea and meditation class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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