News & Blog

Gongfu Brewing

I was taking some photos today for a booklet describing our teas & thought something on the website might be nice to demonstrate one method of Gongfu brewing. This isn’t...

Mannuo draw

The winner for the 1-15th November Mannuo Puerh draw is as selected by random.org is Norbert for his review of our 2011 Nantou Green Tea.

New Website

I’ve been working fairly constantly for the past few weeks on a new look for our website & put it online last night. Hopefully over the next few weeks I...

Woolley and Wallace Yixing Auction

I’ve spent most of an interesting day watching the Yixing auction happening at Woolley and Wallace in Salisbury (UK). There were some beautiful and rare pots up for auction and...

‘Green Puerh’ vs ‘Non-green’

I’m often asked about what makes some young puerh teas so ‘green’ in flavour and in colour, while others don’t have so much of this greenness to them. The big...

Busy Busy

We’ve been particularly busy as of late. The teahouse is progressing steadily, and it seems like there might be enough support from the local community to make it work. We’ve...