News & Blog

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...

Mr Feng’s Puerh Tea pressings

The culmination of several weeks of planning, tasting, bank transfers and email writing, I’m very excited to introduce a range of puerh teas of a very high standard. Over the...

Criteria for tasting teas

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been tasting some puerh samples from a producer in Yunnan. The samples were from teas he has pressed over the past 5 years...