Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 2
A continuing of the epic characters, moments, and spaces of the past years in no particular order along with the requisite captions. To...
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Jeff Fuchs
Dec 16, 20152 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains
Decided that there must be some way to pay some tribute to the faces, spaces, and leaves that have inspired either by wonderful force, or...
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
Oct 15, 20156 min read
Glacier Melt – Nomad Streams
The long ridgeline of sediment and stone from a glacier has made a wall beside our trail. Known as an esker it is a thing of power and...
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 7, 20154 min read
The Glacier’s Breath – Amid the Temples of Ice
Debra Tan’s lungs and ligaments are strained still but she is learning the mountain way: ‘dirè dirè’ (slowly slowly) and all will pass....
Jeff Fuchs
Oct 5, 20157 min read
The Glacier’s Breath – Bara Shigri
Biari lights up after a tea So much of what is good and cherished in my days is both deliberately tea related and in some wonderful cases...
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
Jan 14, 20151 min read
Tea Horse Road – words from Drolma
Elder Drolma from Dzogong speaks and reminisces about the days of the Tea Horse Road linking her home in eastern Tibet with Lhasa and...
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
Sep 29, 20141 min read
Tea-Infused Journey to the Sources of the Leaf – Beginning next March
Much sipping, waiting, travelling, and finally contentment, has been put into creating a tea tour with Wild China where we will sip of...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 17, 20141 min read
Sri Lanka In Style and Dilmah Teas join with Jeff Fuchs
Though I’m not known for cocktails, looking forward to joining tea-stained forces with Dilmah Teas and Sri Lanka In Style for a series of...
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
Jun 24, 20142 min read
The Tea Horse Road Expedition – 8 Years’ On…
Eight years ago this month, a team of mountain men that were in part desperate, utterly tough, and not entirely sure of what was to come,...
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...
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