Community – Gift of the Tea Drinker »
A couple weeks ago I experienced a personal tragedy. Aside from my partner and best friends, the most immediate outpouring of love and support came from the tea community…
Continue Reading »The Unfathomable Mystery of Tea »
Sometimes I am amazed at how much bad information there is out there about tea. I can’t even tell you how many people come in to Seven Cups or the Botanical Gardens with their friends and want to look intelligent by saying something about tea, and it turns out that what they say is completely wrong…
Continue Reading »Tea In The Botanical Tucson Gardens »
I am in our new teahouse in the Tucson Botanical Gardens and enjoying a cup of. Meizhan oolong, one of my favorite WuYi Shan rock oolongs. I am reminded of the tea drinking scholars of the Tang Dynasty that preferred to drink their tea in a natural setting…
Continue Reading »Seven Cups Puer Cakes »
We are proud to announce that we have produced two puer cakes, one sheng (green or raw puer) cake, and one shu (black or cooked puer) cake…
Continue Reading »Tea, Chocolate, Music, and Baseball »
It seems like a long time since I have written anything for the blog. We have been very busy finishing our ordering for this years teas. Summer is ending even though the signs for that are different here in Tucson than places that actually have seasons. One of the ways we know is that school starts up again.
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