One River Tea

  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...

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 Dimension 2023-2024 When One River Tea started in of 2018, only a few things were certain: we wanted to sell tea, we wan...

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...

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...

  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...

“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 ...

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.