One River Tea
ORT - Red Tea Processing Deep Dive
Basic Definition
Red tea is the category of tea processing which has been dominant in the world since the 19th Century, yet has been a major fac...
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Laotian Tea and Chinese Traders
The Chinese Origins of Laos’ Tea Boom
As wages have risen in China, a mass market has developed for medium and high-end teas. At the forefront of t...
October Update to Solidarity Trust Work
For well over 300 years, tea vendors have been a marginal and sometimes parasitic presence in China. So long as tea has been a mass market commod...
Selected Summaries From Huang Baizi’s “Phoenix Dancong Tea”
Fragrance
Bush Yield
Leaf Traits
Growth Traits
Finished Tea
Xiongdi
10 Jin
(Annual)
Glossy green color, flat body, shallow teet...
Master Wei (bio)
Master Wei is an award winning dancong producer at the center of a family-run enterprise. He has several gardens high in the Phoenix Mountains near Wudong Shan and only harvests once a year, in spring. During this time, his wife manages the picking team of up to 70 women, while Wei spends the days )(and long nights) overseeing the withering, shake wilting, kill green, rolling, and bake drying production process with a alternating group of apprentices keen to learn the art.
Masu Village: Chasing Tongmuguan Black Tea
Masu Village, Tongmuguan. This incredibly remote region of the world is home to the first ever black tea. The locals that live here exist in a ...
关于我们
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我们是ORT(One River Tea), 一个团结经济组织。网站和美国公司(LLP)成立于2018年。
本企业是以茶叶和茶具为主要产品,以欧美公平贸易消费者为主要对象。我们的三个大特色是实地采购、工分分配制度、和社会性投资。从采摘到加工再到出口,我们将尽量实现团结和正义分配。来...
Solidarity Trust Update
Between January 1st and June 30th some 9370 RMB was set aside via our profit sharing scheme. This money will be divided among the respective produc...
Translated 1979 Introduction of Lapsang Souchong
Lapsang Souchong is one of China’s national specialties. It is considered one of the three major types of Chinese black tea along with Gongfu Tea and Fenjicha[2]. Souchong itself can be further sub-divided into Lapsang and Artificial Souchong[3].