Puerh – The ‘Sort’
Tea ends up in nuggets and in twisted desiccated things of tangy beauty. Cakes and compressed forms line shelves and delicate curled buds...
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Jeff Fuchs
Jul 8, 20164 min read
Puerh – Age and Other Words
Worlds of tea exist in twisted semi-fermented forms, flat green shapes and black beetle bits. Formats, ferments, withering, fries and...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 12, 20163 min read
Pu erh Tea and its Precious Pickers
There is much made of a tea’s geographic designation, its altitude, its harvest season, and its growers…and there should be! The earth,...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 18, 201611 min read
Pu erh’s Needed Basics
“Discussions about a specific tea should be left until during and after the sipping and too many words simply lead one to question the...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 23, 20161 min read
Toronto Tea Festival – Speaking About (and Sipping) Puerh
Delighted to be speaking and slurping away at this year’s annual Toronto Tea Festival on behalf of our own JalamTeas. A fierce tea...
Jeff Fuchs
Nov 13, 20152 min read
The Tea Explorer – Documentary Film
Movie Trailer here: The Tea Explorer The last month and a bit have been spent contentedly and sometimes manically slurping back tea,...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 6, 20157 min read
Southwest – Arriving to Pu erh Tea Central
Flights can anesthetize one from a full-on experience at times (however brutal that experience might be) and so it is that the journey...
Jeff Fuchs
May 24, 20159 min read
Wuyishan Oolongs – Rock Teas and Red Robes
Hangzhou’s immensity is somewhere north of us as we move south and then east speeding through dark fields and villages. We are zipping on...
Jeff Fuchs
May 12, 20156 min read
Green Tea – Long Jing’s Three Roasts and One Roaster
Amidst the green of the little tea garden in front of me I realize that it lacks some of what I love of further west. Here in Hangzhou’s...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 24, 20158 min read
A Brilliant Bit of Puerh Sampled…at Last
Almost ten years ago a particular Ban Zhang Puerh came gently into my life while sitting, ironically, in another tea town kilometres...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 21, 20151 min read
The Ancient Tea Horse Road – Now in Portuguese
As an old trader along the Ancient Tea Horse Road once remarked to our team as we traveled through his village, “You all are lucky...
Jeff Fuchs
Dec 24, 20141 min read
Condè Nast Traveller Tea Article on Jeff Fuchs
Condè Nast Traveller Tea Article on Jeff Fuchs Condè Nast Traveller introduces my latest tea-fueled exercises in the green leaf here. A...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 27, 20141 min read
Tea Horse Road – The Faces
Yeshi during an interview in Pomda, in western Sichuan Province Beyond simply the daunting snow passes, eccentric bandits, and...
Jeff Fuchs
May 29, 20145 min read
Bulang Pu erh Tea – Spring Sips
The Leaves Arrive There is something called a tea sweat, and I’m experiencing it. So is Andrew, and for someone of 250 lbs of...
Jeff Fuchs
May 4, 20146 min read
Lao Ban Zhang Pu erh – A Tea of Endurance
Few teas that sit in my collection of leaves have ever not made a journey with me, accompanying me as a stimulant companion, ally, and...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 14, 20145 min read
Oolong Tea….Roasted
Roasted Oolongs and the roast itself have long been a vital part of what the palate takes in. Roasting is a part of tea, a notion of tea...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 14, 20141 min read
New York’s Tea Drunk – I’m Bringing Pu erh tea Leaves and We’re Drinking
After the Explorers Club talk this Friday, I head south for tea sips to New York. No regular sips either…Pu erh tea leaves off of ancient...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 28, 20141 min read
Tea Tour with Jeff Fuchs and Sri Lanka In Style through Sri Lanka
One of this year’s joys will be hosting another kind of tea tour. This tea tour is aided by the impeccable talents of Sri Lanka in Style...
Jeff Fuchs
Jan 3, 20141 min read
Tea Interview with Tealet and Jeff Fuchs…with Tea
Tealet’s fearless leader Elyse Petersen sits down for an interview with yours truly about tea, where I get to gently rant a bit about...
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