Continued from Pu’er-Like Teas From Southeast Asia – Part 2 Kokang, Myanmar “pu’er”: I just met this producer at a Bangkok expo, and reviewed the sheng and shu. It’s quite good. The first two blog posts that turn up from searching that location are about a version a tea expert contact passed … Continue reading
We’re going back into the archives to revisit this classic post by James Norwood Pratt. This post contains the four-part sequence “Foreign Mud”. We have added a link to the end of each one to take you to the next if you would like to read them as a sequence, … Continue reading
Continued from Pu’er-Like Teas From Southeast Asia – Part 1 Hatvala, in Vietnam: one of my favorite vendors for selling an interesting range of different local teas at a good value. Vietnamese sheng is something of an anomaly, but really the tea traditions in this region extend back to well … Continue reading
Darjeeling tea was not known in the 1850’s, when tea planting first began in the area. A lot of hard work took place through the 1900’s, when 89 gardens were running at full steam. Robert Fortune and Dr. Campbell are contenders in this discovery – one forgotten and another fully … Continue reading
I tend to talk about teas version by version, or maybe source by source, or at most type by type. A question came up in a tea group (in the Facebook Pu’er Tea Club) about trying versions equivalent to Yunnan pu’er from Southeast Asia (so not pu’er, since that’s a … Continue reading
Voting is still going and open to the public for our 2018 Writers Contest. Voting will be online only. We have also printed physical “ballots” with a QR code to the online voting. We have already had a lot of interest at our booths at the Wakamatsu Tea Festival in Placerville, … Continue reading