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Organic Or Oblivion? We have begun our biggest and most decisive push to protect traditional tea production in Manyingtai Village. On February 4th,...

Today, we are one month out from the Qingming Festival, and the Qingming solar term (April 4th-18th) that follows it. Green tea picking has already...

First Anhua Trip   Anhua is definitively one of the most exciting places in China we have visited. These last few days I have experienced a kind of...

After living in China since 2016 and sourcing Chinese teas for the past decade, this is our love letter to the industry, what we can give back to e...

Jingdezhen, a small city in Guangxi province in mainland China, has been a major producer of Chinese porcelain for the past thousand years.  To this day, young artists and learned ceramicists flock to this city to study, experiment, learn, and sell their works.  However, when we visited in Summer of 2022, many locals we met and talked with had a very different opinion about this history of fame and its modern manifestations.

Zhang Yinchao is a young potter currently working under celebrated ceramicist Xie Hua in Chaozhou, Guangdong.  He specialized in hand making gong teapots from the finest quality clays available in the region.

  Intro In 2020, Huoshan Huangya was listed among the Chinese first group of “new and excellent agricultural products.” The tea we today call Huosh...

What makes White Tea from Fuding better than most other production regions?  Not only is it the historical lineage of white tea production in the region, but it is also strict government regulations that keep the quality of the tea produced high, the land it is produced on clean, and the quantity of tea made low.  Read up on the 2022 Fuding Government Circular below!

  Basic History Heicha, often translated as dark tea, is category of tea production that began in the Ming Dynasty and matured into its modern form...

 Official Promotional: “Baojing Golden Green - China’s Best Green Tea” More than 400 years ago, in China’s captivating region of Xiangxi, the oldes...

Lay of the Land When it comes to appraisals of organic tea from Chinese customers and producers, we’ve heard comments of every kind. Xuanen County’...

The Tea Huaxing produces two kinds of tea presently: Lichuanhong, for which it holds official government recognition and Potianxiang, an experiment...