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Fuzhou Jasmine Tea - Introduction

Fuzhou Jasmine Tea - Introduction
Our Introduction  The following is translated and adapted from Zhuang Wanfang’s 1979 Famous Teas of China. This was a text originally designed to...

Fuding: White Tea City At The Crossroads

Fuding: White Tea City At The Crossroads
Bailin Township Intersection Connecting Taimushan, Panxi, and Fuding Thirty years ago, white tea was a marginal curiosity, even in Fuding. Farmers...

Chinese Tea Assessment: Greens

Chinese Tea Assessment: Greens
Blog 1 - General Introduction Blog 2 - Heicha

What is Maofeng?

What is Maofeng?
[Supplemental Video materials here: Handmade Vs. Machine Made Maofeng] Most sources agree about the broad definition of Maofeng. It is a green tea ...

Chinese Tea Assessment: Dark 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

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

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 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?

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

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?

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 ...