The American Tea Masters Association is an internationally recognized, membership-based organization founded to provide Mastery Level training, education, and professional certification to individuals desiring to become tea masters and tea sommeliers.

The association is respected as meeting superior educational standards by offering its Tea Mastery Certification Course™ for achieving the prestigious Certified Tea Master™ designation upon completion of the coursework.

The Tea Mastery Certification Course™ is being offered this year in several different locations.

Starts June 4th, San Diego, California at the Courtyard by Marriott Liberty Station.

Starts July 1st, Cocoyoc, México at the Hotel Hacienda Cocoyoc

Starts Sept. 7th, Vancouver, B.C., Canada at the Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown.

The Tea Mastery Certification Course™ is also available without leaving your home or office, all done using Skype, a free audio-visual telephone system you can download to your computer. The entire course is conducted one-on-one with your own certified tea master. Click Here for information.

Review the results of our January, 2011 survey of several of our graduates: The Value of Becoming a Certified Tea Master™. Loaded with great feedback.

Please take a moment to read the Testimonials from several registrants who completed the Tea Mastery Certification Course™. Biographies of several Certified Tea Masters™ are also available.

Our new 190-page book, Tea Mastery - Pursuing Your Odyssey Into Tea, follows the rigorous curriculum for training a Certified Tea Master™. Comes with 38 different teas for tasting and evaluation, 100 extra Tea Evaluation Forms, and opportunity to become a Certified Tea Professional™. Click Here for information.

The association is pleased to announce the appointment of Certified Tea Master Lady Kelly MacVean to the position of Training Director of the association, and the licensing of its training courses and support materials to the Australian Tea School and its executive director, Sharyn Johnston, Certified Tea Master. The success of Escuela Argentina de Te (www.escueladete.org,) the association's licensee in Argentina, and its directors Diego Morlachetti and Liliana Venarucci, both certified tea masters, is rapidly expanding the tea industry in all Spanish-speaking countries.

We are also pleased to announce our new Continuing Education Program: Monthly Group Tea Tastings of different tea samples provided by San Francisco's world-famous Imperial Tea Court using our new online audio-visual system.