One River Tea
Golden Green Deep Dive - China's Best Green Tea？
Official Promotional: “Baojing Golden Green - China’s Best Green Tea”
More than 400 years ago, in China’s captivating region of Xiangxi, the oldes...
Organic Vs. Conventional Deep Dive
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’...
Huaxing Cooperative -- Wendou, LIchuan
The Tea
Huaxing produces two kinds of tea presently: Lichuanhong, for which it holds official government recognition and Potianxiang, an experiment...
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...
Lesser Snow Black Friday Sale!
This Black Friday, we have a Three-Level Sale!
Spend $70 - get 15% off everything
Spend $100 - get 15% off everything, and get a chance to win one ...
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 ...