Tea-Specific Deep Dives

The Liubao many know and love today has little to do with the tea that made the damp little mountain township of the same name famous in the first ...

Introduction  “Everyone has their own take on it. If you ask ten Qimen Masters you will hear ten different perspectives on what Keemun is and isn’t...

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

Bailin Township Intersection Connecting Taimushan, Panxi, and Fuding Thirty years ago, white tea was a marginal curiosity, even in Fuding. Farmers...

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

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.

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...

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...

Dancong Production Dancong tea is unique in China primarily for its variety. Over 100 botanically distinct varietals are cultivated and marketed, w...

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.

  Intro In 2020, Huoshan Huangya was listed among the Chinese first group of “new and excellent agricultural products.” The tea we today call Huosh...