The Essence of Tea Blog

It's been months of work, but we've finally managed to turn our studio in Kunming from this....   To this......

This has been a while in the making - we've decided to move our base of operations from Malaysia to China. ...

We’ve been wholesaling tea for many years now, though never really promoted it online.  A big part of our business in recent years has been wholesaling aged Liu Bao and young Puerh tea to tea businesses within China.   We’ve also been wholesaling to western tea businesses on a smaller scale, but have always had the intention that […]

Most people don’t give a lot of thought to the processing of puerh tea. The trees matter, their age, health and environment where they’re growing.  This tends to be the main determinant in the selling price of tea.  If the area is famous or the trees especially old, the tea can sell for more money. […]

As we packed up the last of our teas a few days ago and brought them to be pressed, I took a few moments to look back on the progress we’ve made in the tea mountains over the past years.  This spring was our 9th consecutive spring in the tea mountains of Yunnan & in […]

We don’t seem to have stopped this year. Though exhausting, it’s been an exciting time for us. As we’ve been having more and more demand from wholesale customers in China, Malaysia and the West, we’ve realised the need to lay the groundwork for steady, long term relationships with various farmers. In Wuyishan we’ve got an […]

We’ve been a bit quiet of late, both here on the blog and on our Facebook and Instagram feeds. This year has been non-stop for us. Young Puerh We spent almost 3 months in Yunnan this Spring. I took my Chinese driving license test and was able to drive legally in the mountains for the […]