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 a special love for Yunnan. It is one of the most beautiful places on earth, and one of the most interesting, especially if you are a tea lover, and it is filled with very friendly people who really enjoy life, and feel it is even more enjoyable if they have some guests to [...]
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Kunming April 2011… I am hear to get a first had version of the weather, and visit Lincang county to see the first grow and assess the coming crop. Some of the best black tea that is produced in China comes from this area, and it is one of our best selling black tea
Continue Reading »It is just about that time of year when we start asking ourselves why we started a tea business in Tucson. The monsoons are hovering in the evening, sparing a drop or two, providing just enough humidity to stop evaporative coolers from working. Today it is raining hard and roofs all over Tucson are leaking…
Continue Reading »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 »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 »China has set a standard for Chinese puer production that limits the use of the word puer to it’s native growing areas. This standard includes Kunming even though tea is not grown in the Kunming area. I’m not sure how meaningful this standard is in relationship to the domestic market, but for export it is [...]
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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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rajeshlalwani (Rajesh Lalwani)
Wow. I'm alway unprepared for the humidity in Guangzhou.
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"@sevencups: @Sobernauf29 I hope you had a good day!" We did, thank you!! I had #GoldenFish #VeryRelaxing
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@Sobernauf29 I hope you had a good day!
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@AngryObie I hope you enjoyed yourself.
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@teaemperor Thanks for reading it. :-)
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