There is Champagne, France; Tequila, Mexico; and Parma, Italy — all places turned trade names known for their unique, high-quality foods. Now, if China has its way, there could be another: Puer.
Continue Reading »Tim Bowen has created a great site to share his photo’s from our 2009 Puer Tea Tour. He has also written a day by day account.
Continue Reading »Glen’s McElhose’s photos of our trip to Yunnan have been published and they are really amazing.
Continue Reading »After a great lunch we left to continue our journey to the ancient city of Dali. When I had visited this area 4 years ago there was not the road then that is there now, so our travel time was cut in half.
Continue Reading »This was a special day for me because we were allowed to see an old Dian Hong factory and were allowed to examine the complete process.
Continue Reading »Fengqing is the origin of Yunnan black tea, and the old government factory of Dian Hong.
Continue Reading »On the eighth day we spent the day in Lincang. Master Hu gave us a class in distinguishing quality in a puer cake. As a consequence we had some very good tea in the morning.
Continue Reading »The solar eclipse has blocked out half of the sun, and we are stuck in traffic, the normal morning traffic plus the people going blind from staring at the sun through tinted windows. I will finish off the day by day commentary when I get back. The hardest part is sorting through and deciding which [...]
Continue Reading »In the morning Kevin, Tim, and Glen left for a party they had planned in Beijing, and we pointed our bus down the road to Lancang.
Continue Reading »It’s late in the evening again as usual. This is our last night in Dali and have had a wonderful time here. We will be going to Kunming tomorrow, and it is the last day four the tour. When I get back to Kunming I have an extra day to try and get caught up [...]
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This month we have some of our best green teas for sale. We also thought we would throw in some investment grade sheng puer cakes for sale. Check them out.
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Just arriving in Lincang deep in the heart of tea country after a very long trip. http://t.co/n9y2rDl7lt
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