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A King of Puerh Tea Trees

It seems there’s no end of “Kings” of puerh tea trees. Every area seems to have it’s own ‘Cha Wang’ (Tea King). The trees are big, old and invariably over...

Spring Sale

As the winter comes to a close, we’re in the midst planning our Spring trip to Yunnan to source and press our 2013 Puerh tea cakes. This season always leaves...

New Art of Tea Magazines

We’ve been meaning to buy some more of these magazines for a while. They are one of the very few publications in English that deal with Chinese tea in any...

More amputees

Unfortunately our last shipment of Yixing teapots took a bit of a bashing and there were three more pots with broken spouts. I’ve tidied up the spouts and one of...

Finally Fired

Well, it hasn’t been quick & I’ve been living in fear of having the unfired clay pots damaged, but we’ve finally managed to get Master Zhou’s Yixing teapots fired. He...

Amputee Yixings

We had a small shipment of teapots arrive from Yixing today. Inside were some small Shui Ping pots and some Xian Piao pots made by apprentices of Master Zhou. Upon...