Producers
Zhang Yinchao - Chaozhou Zhuni Teapots
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.
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...
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.
Xie Family
Meet the Xie family farm. They have a very small amount of tea fields (only about 3 acres interspersed between bamboo forests and vegetable gardens). During the spring the three family members spend most the months of March and April picking and making tea, while in May they begin to sort the maocha, and in June and July they will roast all the tea themselves!
Master Zhang
Meet Master Zhang
He is a young White Tea producer in Fuding. While he is new to tea, his passion is deep. He reminds us a bit of a mad scientist, the way he talks about the tea making process. Not only has he developed new methods to allow tea enzymes to blend aromas and flavors with each other, but he has also invented new tea production machines! For the tea nerds out there, check out the full blog post on Zhang’s production process!
Xiangmiao Cooperative
The Xiangmiao Cooperative is a successful and entirely Miao minority tea producers located in the rural mountains of Hunan.
In order to get to th...
Loushuiyuan
Learn more about the Loushuiyuan Cooperative, a small Tujia Minority led cooperative consisting of dozens of small village residents and farmers that blend their land, their labor, and their time together to create the Green and Red Maojian Teas!
Keosuyaping Family
In the extreme North of Laos, in the province of Phongsali, the Keosuyaping family has been tending a grove of ancient tea trees for generations. T...
Yue Chao - Jingdezhen Porcelain Artist
Yue Chao graduated from one of China's most prestigious fine arts universities: Beijing's Central Fine Arts Academy. This name alone is enough t...
Yuanming Tea
This company was started by Qiu and his wife in 2013. Qiu had just returned from nearly 18 years working abroad, sending all his earnings back hom...
The Lin Family
The Lin Family is a collection of neighbors and relatives living just outside the Phoenix Village in Guangdong. They focus on growing and processing maocha for other local producers to buy and roast to their own tastes.
Huiwei Community
Huiwei is the name of a tea house that through the hard effort of a group of neighbors and friends, has recently began cultivating a plot of mid-mountain dancong tea trees and bushes outside the Phoenix Village in Guangdong.
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