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The more you know, the more you know you don't know… -          Not Aristotle Jason & Pat on TTRT2026. These two high-t-high-tea bros have insta cred from our glamor shots with the #gushu tree. #TeaTechnique #LBZ
Dank Piles and Bitter Draughts Welcome, gentle reader, to our sophomore year of Yunnan spring pu’er research. The TLDR of last year’s trip was as follows: Went to Yiwu, had a great time, learned lots, ate moldy tofu, fell madly in love with Yiwu pu’
Listen to the Tea Technique Editorial Conversation podcast on this trip report: Back Again I said I’d be back – and so I am. A year after our introduction to Wuyi on the Tea Technique Research Trip 2024 , I’ve returned to forge new friendships, deepen existing
Here it is folks, my personal mecca of tea trips – Yiwu, Yunnan. We battled the bugs, the snakes, and the escalating political tensions and tariffs to go and study with a variety of knowledgeable Charen in Yiwu and the experience did not disappoint. Yiwu has been a bucket list
Listen to the Tea Technique Editorial Conversation about this Trip Report: Yunnan was the south western frontier of imperial China, populated by sinofied tribes, the gateway to Southeast Asia and India, the nexus of the southern silk road and tea horse trail. Yunnan is still a tribal land, far from
A friend, a good friend, a conscientious friend knocked a teapot off my shelf. It wasn't rare, or expensive, or antique. It was, in fact, purposely flawed, part of a set I commissioned to study for the book on Yixing teapots. Contemporary Tianqingni fire-set, top to bottom:
Dear reader, you find me writing this from the comforts of Wistaria Tea House in Taipei where I end my travels reflecting on this year’s research trip over a 2003 Tze Ping sheng puerh, enjoying a moments peace before flying back to the US and returning to daily
Listen to the Tea Technique Podcast on the 2024 Research Trip to Wuyi: Intro Wuyi may be the most mythical of China's tea origins, unique in history, environment, natural preservation, production process, and flavor profiles. It may also be the most hyper-real, a place of collective modern
Tea is a window, a lens, a reflection. Tea is a means of sharpening the mind to see into the internal and external. The cultivation of self is aided by a study of tea, the understanding of culture is aided by the study of tea. Lin Family Mansion. No relation.
Part 1 A year to the day since the last post - I don't think the wait has been in vain. After a brief layover in Taiwan last year bookending the 2023 TT Research Trip, I started planning a true return to form - a month of tea studies, focused
After a 9-hour high speed rail from Yixing and an hour-long taxi ride we made it to Chaozhou old town, which would be our home base for the next few days. It was about 11pm once we’d dropped off our bags, stomachs rumbling and blood sugar
As I sit here in NYC, comfortably at my desk, writing my notes after a brief weekend of rest from 3 weeks in China and Taiwan, it all feels like a dream. Dreamscape: The "Cloud Sea" at sunrise in Jingmai Returning to Yunnan was a form of homecoming,
The Tea Technique Team's triumphant return to the origin of tea and tea culture is well underway - with half of the trip successfully accomplished. Our time here has exceeded our wildest expectations, both wonder-inducing, gratifying, and humbling. The level of care and knowledge our tea friends in
I had the great pleasure of hosting my dear friends Ik Joon and Hyoam at my tea room, for a session focused on Yixing and Oolong. I first met Hyoam in 2011, when I traveled to Korea to bring the country's tea tradition back to the Tea Institute
The Tea Technique Editorial team and I are returning to China to work on research projects for the book series - if you're based in China or Taiwan and want to meet, please shoot me an email - we'd love to share tea with you. The trip will