Tea-Specific Deep Dives
Fuding White Tea: State of the Industry Spring 2022
What makes White Tea from Fuding better than most other production regions? Not only is it the historical lineage of white tea production in the region, but it is also strict government regulations that keep the quality of the tea produced high, the land it is produced on clean, and the quantity of tea made low. Read up on the 2022 Fuding Government Circular below!
Heicha Deep Dive
Basic History
Heicha, often translated as dark tea, is category of tea production that began in the Ming Dynasty and matured into its modern form...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Translated 1979 Introduction of Lapsang Souchong
Lapsang Souchong is one of China’s national specialties. It is considered one of the three major types of Chinese black tea along with Gongfu Tea and Fenjicha[2]. Souchong itself can be further sub-divided into Lapsang and Artificial Souchong[3].