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Choosing Green Puer Cakes

By andrea on February 2nd, 2012 under: Videocasts

In this episode we visit Austin at the Seven Cups Warehouse to talk about choosing green puer cakes. Learn the basics for evaluating a cake in relation to the quality of the mao cha and whether it is made from an old tree. Austin shows how the color changes over time, gives tasting notes and [...]

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Zhuge Liang

Year of the Dragon, Happy New Year

By austin on January 26th, 2012 under: Seven Cups News

We at Seven Cups wish you all good health, prosperity, and luck in the Year of the Dragon.

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Tea Brewing Basics

By andrea on January 9th, 2012 under: Videocasts
Tags: Tea Brewing Basics

In this episode Zhuping talks about tea brewing basics for scented, black, puer and wulong tea. Check out the tea brewed in this podcast-Bai Long Zhu (Silver Dragon Pearls) Scented Tea, Sheng Tai Chen Xiang (Premium) Loose Leaf Puer,and Ma Liu Mi (Monkey Picked) Anxi Wulong Today’s topic: Tea Brewing Basics Thank you all for [...]

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Cast Iron for Brewing Tea? No

By andrea on January 2nd, 2012 under: How to Brew Tea, Videocasts
Tags: Cast Iron Pots

Cast iron for brewing tea? Zhuping talks about selecting the best teaware for brewing green, white and yellow tea.

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Easy Tea Brewing with Seven Cups Tea Jars

By andrea on December 30th, 2011 under: Videocasts
Tags: Easy Tea Brewing

Easy tea brewing with Seven Cups Tea Jars

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Rosy Faced Tea Pickers

Fair Trade Tea In China

By austin on October 20th, 2011 under: Tea Industry News
Tags: Fair Trade

Fair trade certification has always been pretty meaningless when it comes to China. With the new split between Fair Trade USA and the European FLO as reported by Dan Bolton in the World Tea News, Fair Trade USA has increased the gap between the original core values of the founders of the Fair Trade movement, and the marketing focused business that fair trade certifying has become…

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Yunnan Black Tea and the Middle East

By austin on September 14th, 2011 under: Seven Cups News
Tags: Yunnan black tea

I first came to Yunxian in 2005 after a trip to Dubai. I was invited to Dubai to become a member in the newly formed Dubai Tea Trading Center. Dubai wanted to become the hub of tea distribution and was providing remarkable incentives for companies to set up business there.

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Freshly picked Shifeng Longjing

Plagiarism and Tea Ecommerce

By mikel on August 22nd, 2011 under: Seven Cups News
Tags: Plagiarism

Last week a fellow tea entrepreneur emailed us with a question.  We had never spoken before, so he wasn’t sure how to approach us about a very sensitive issue. He had been searching for a map of Shi Feng Mountain and noticed that some of our photos and content appeared to have been lifted from [...]

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Lu Yu Tea's first leadership

Leadership in the tea industry?

By austin on July 27th, 2011 under: Seven Cups News, Tea Industry News
Tags: tea industry

Since it has been a few years since I have attended the World Tea Expo, I was curious about any changes that the expo might have undergone, so I briefly interviewed several of the attendees that I happen to know. I know I would have been better informed if I had just gone myself, but [...]

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Austin 1209

Why am I writing this blog?

By austin on June 23rd, 2011 under: Seven Cups News
Tags: Austin Hodge

I was looking at our archives, and I have been writing something on a pretty regular basis since 2003. Of course it hasn’t been all me; there have been others that have contributed. In the beginning it was just monthly emails, and the actual blog didn’t come into existence until around 2005. Still, that is [...]

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