News & Blog

2011 Puerh Tea Cakes have arrived

Our 2011 Puerh tea cakes have arrived back in Falmouth and are now available in our shop and on our website. It’s been an interesting year making puerh. The prices...

Wuyi Rock Tea (1) – The Environment

We spent 10 days this year staying with Master Huang’s family, learning more about the processing and working in his studio for a couple of days at the end. Coming...

Mr. Wang’s Old Tree Sun Moon Lake Black Tea

We took a day on our recent trip to Taiwan to revisit the farmer who makes one of our most popular teas in our Falmouth teahouse.  Mr. Wang owns one...

A new blog

We’ve decided to launch this new blog area to our website to allow us to post about new products, general announcements, photos from our travels and interviews with tea farmers/producers/tea...

Travels in Yunnan

This year has been interesting. We’ve spent the past month travelling around Xishuangbanna. We managed to rent/borrow a 4×4 for most of our time here & could travel a bit...

Sha Qing at Lao Banzhang

I thought I’d share this short video of the Sha Qing (Kill Green) process at a farmer’s house in Lao Banzhang. Note the angled pan, making the leaves naturally slide...