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Hou Gu Huang Shan Mao Feng via sweetesdew
Hou Gu Huang Shan Mao Feng via sweetesdew
Lao Cong Song Zhong Dacong Oolong
Lao Cong Song Zhong Dacong Oolong

Lao Cong Song Zhong in beautiful small Chaozhou teapot. Both absolute highlights for me! And I can say I had one of the best sessions of the year with this setup on my balcony.

Jingmai Shan: Comparing two 2019 Sheng Mao Chas from William and Yubai (Farmerleaf)
Jingmai Shan: Comparing two 2019 Sheng Mao Chas from William and Yubai (Farmerleaf)
Gao Shan Zhai 2019 - Sheng PuErh from Yiwu
Gao Shan Zhai 2019 - Sheng PuErh from Yiwu

this review I am digging into some Yiwu tea from Henning, who lives in Shanghai. I got 4 really interesting samples from his private stash (thank you so much Henning).

Yume-Wakabe Sencha from Tokyo area
Yume-Wakabe Sencha from Tokyo area

Here my tasting notes from a session with the ThesDuJapon Yume Wakabe cultivar Sencha from the Tokyo area. This time I wanted to experiment and try to brew it in my (normally Zairai dedicated) Shigaraki rough clay kyusu!

Travelling with tea - Part 2
Travelling with tea - Part 2

The second part of this tutorial, this time from Wuyishan, Fujian, China. I am talking about water, thermos bottles and show off the beautiful tea mountains. Enjoy watching.

Wuyi White Tea - self-made tea experiment
Wuyi White Tea - self-made tea experiment

A few days ago I posted about one of my selfmade white teas made from Long Jing material. Today I want to show you the actual first white tea I made, a Yancha which was fully processed in my hotel room in Wuyishan 😁🙈

Travelling with tea - Part 1
Travelling with tea - Part 1

All of us feel the urge to take our tea experience outside, into nature, introducing friends to tea, etc. In this video I am going to introduce 3 tea travel sets which I am using. I hope you enjoy the video.

Making tea @teastudio in the Nilgiris
Making tea @teastudio in the Nilgiris

A long overdue video from my visit of the Nilgiris in December 2018. In this video I talk about tea growing in South India and especially the Nilgiris. I visited a novel processing unit, the Tea Studio, which is producing artisanal teas from Assamica material in the Nilgiris. They offered me to join them processing one of their green teas, a chinese style Mao Feng.

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View fullsize “Private collection” / new series on @tea.log . Within the next weeks I would like to introduce to you some of the pieces I collected over the period of about 10 years. Starting off with some pieces which initiated my first ever collab an
View fullsize We are slowly waking up from our summer slumber. Here a quick update about the @unearthed.gallery pre-orders, which we we offered in June/July: All orders have been placed already more than a month ago and we can already publish estimated shipping da