Day 6 our Yunnan Tea Tour packed up our little bus and took off for Jinggu. The Jinggu area is the largest forested area in Yunnan, and rich with many unknown mountains peaks with older trees. I have spent a lot of time in Jinggu and it always seems like I could stay there year [...]
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I got an email yesterday from a friend who asked me what had happened to the rest of the Yunnan Tea Tour’s blog postings. Well, I have been home just for a couple of days and am just starting to get back in the swing of things after recovering from killer jet lag. Better to [...]
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I’m sitting in a cafe in Dali a long way from Yiwu where we were on the second day of our Yunnan tour.
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I have been thinking about how I was going to write about this for a almost two weeks now. This award came as a complete surprise to me and I am still trying to get my mind around it. I found out about winning this award when I first returned to Yunnan for a short [...]
Continue Reading »Amazingly enough, I am sitting here on New Year’s Eve with all of my work done. It feels great. Everyone else has gone , their work done as well. I am drinking some remarkable puer, Da Xue Shan Sheng, a green puer that was transported for one week by mule…
Continue Reading »After making our own cakes in the tiny factory in Youle, we visited the biggest tea garden and factory in China…
Continue Reading »The puer bubble burst last year. By in large, the people that were hurt worse were the speculators. Not the big collectors, they didn’t buy during the bubble, and were wise buyers when they were. The people that really got burned were the Chinese wholesalers and small shop owners that fueled the bubble. The people [...]
Continue Reading »Wow, this story is almost a year and a half late. The crash came in the summer of 2007. The crash has been a good thing for everyone except for the tea merchants and puer speculators in Hong Kong and Taiwan, that hoped to get rich fast from puer, much like mortgage brokers and investment [...]
Continue Reading »Thanks to Dan Sorenson at the Arizona Daily Star… Keiko Naito, a manager at Seven Cups Tea House, heads out with a customer’s order. The tea shop at 2516 E. Sixth St. has more than 100 varieties, often found only in remote areas of the Chinese countryside. Banging his head and knees in a tiny [...]
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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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Entering tea country. Yunnan http://t.co/3YttRsLwD5
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