2008 Spring Tea Harvest
We enter China through Fuzhou, a once great port city located on the southeastern coast. Faintly reminiscent of its glory days of some 300 years past, this aged city still acts as a hub for tea commerce for Fujian Province...

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Tea Harvest 2007
Buying tea in China as we do would be a daunting, perhaps impossible task, without the relationships we have established to support us. The tea farms, markets, teashops, tea companies and business people with whom we work have come to understand our standards and our methods of sourcing and buying teas. In many ways, our methods run counter to how the tea ...

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  Pu-erh: China's Best Kept Secret
Pu-erh tea takes its name from a town of the same name in the southwestern province of Yunnan, China. Located just north of Simao in the Xishuangbanna district of Yunnan, no tea is actually grown there. Its importance comes from its past as a vibrant tea center and market town. At one time the majority of the world’s supply of pu-erh passed through this area. As tea was the pillar in the economy in Yunnan Province, Pu-erh collected ...

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