One River Tea
Chinese Tea Assessment: Dark Tea
Dark tea is one of the most widely produced and consumed processing categories of Chinese tea. It includes Hunan’s Fuzhuan, Huazhuan (Flower Brick)...
Chinese Tea Assessment: Introduction
Intro
Tea Tasting (评茶), also translated as Tea Assessment, Tea Grading or Tea Testing, is the last rampart of gate-keeping that companies can lev...
Wudong Mountain Dancong Oolong
Our Wudong Mountain Dancong Oolong teas all come from the studio of the esteemed Wen Zitong. He is the youngest in a long line of generational Wudong Mountain tea farmers and has studied tea making from his father since a very young age. His teas are one-and-all a cut above the rest.
One River Tea - The Social Element 2024
One River Tea - The Social Dimension 2023-2024
When One River Tea started in of 2018, only a few things were certain: we wanted to sell tea, we wan...
What Does the Tea Community Mean to You?
Intro
Earlier this year, I spent some time with the brother of an old classmate at our hometown's coffee shop. As we sat out on the front porch, so...
Why "Fake" Sichuan Tea is a Real Good Deal
Sichuan is a world unto itself. The Sichuan Basin, surrounded by high mountains and famously covered in mist, has been fertile, warm, and moist eno...
Puer Tea Introduction 1979 - Zhuang Wanfang Selection
Intro:
The following is translated from Zhuang Wanfang's 1979 "Famous Teas of China."
We have uploaded the original text here. The Puer section c...
Microwave Fixation - The Future of Green Tea?
“Where do I kill-green? Well, I just use the microwave in my apartment. That gets the job done just fine. Two minutes in there provides a perfect ...
Manyingtai 2024: Cooperative Mingqian Picking & Tea Jar Brewing
Organic Or Oblivion?
We have begun our biggest and most decisive push to protect traditional tea production in Manyingtai Village. On February 4th,...
Mingqian: Deepest Dive
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
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...
Listen to the Tea Soup Podcast!
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...
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