Jeff Fuchs

May 19, 20201 min read

International Tea Day, May 21st – Conversation on Youtube Live

Nice bit of recognition for the leaf as this coming May 21st has been officially designated as International Tea Day…though for many of...

Jeff Fuchs

Nov 2, 20194 min read

Umami Flows West to Puerh and its Bite

A flow westward out of one of the most precision oriented cultures of the leaf to a tiny corner (and an old home of mine) in southwestern...

Jeff Fuchs

Oct 10, 20193 min read

Gyokuro Moments with Tea People – Japan

Some sage and simple wisdom as always from those who spend time at the source, at the cup, and in the tea houses. Travel through some of...

Jeff Fuchs

Feb 12, 20182 min read

Puerh – A Sheng Takes the Palates

Snow has that wonderful natural ability to paint big swaths white, and slow everything down to a trickle. “Cooperate or perish” say many...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 1, 20178 min read

Puerh’s Ancient Cylinder – 竹面 – Zhú tǒng

A local with a freshly unveiled ‘tong’ coming out of its bamboo home. The round cylinder of compressed Puerh, known in southern Yunnan to...

Jeff Fuchs

Jul 26, 20171 min read

Interview with Love for Tea – The Tea Explorer

Love when the word ‘conversation’ is used instead of Interview. Had a wonderful ‘conversation’ with the eloquent Ruhani Sandhu of Rangsaa...

Jeff Fuchs

Jul 13, 20162 min read

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...

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

Jun 8, 20141 min read

Financial Times reviews our JalamTeas’ Tea of the Month Club…and loves it

Financial Times reviews (after significant sipping) our JalamTeas’ Tea of the Month Club offerings…and loves them. Sampling our rare...

Jeff Fuchs

Feb 14, 20141 min read

Award-Winning Writer Mariellen Ward Got Curious about an explorer, and then Interviewed Me

Always nice when someone is asking questions and allows responses which are laden with tangents (which I’ve been known to do). Mariellen...

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...

Jeff Fuchs

Nov 28, 20131 min read

JalamTeas Tea Review (a good one) of our Nannuo Shan Puerh

Our Jalamteas’ Nannuo Shan unfermented Puerh from one of the areas I hand source, finds a fan and gets a great review from witty tea blog...

Jeff Fuchs

Oct 31, 20131 min read

Our Jalamteas’ Zhang Lang Tea gets some good press from ‘Tea for Me Please’

One of our newest (and rarest) offerings at Jalamteas gets a nice bit of press from Nicole Martin at ‘Tea For Me Please‘. To see the...

Jeff Fuchs

Jul 26, 20132 min read

Expedition Preparation in Hong Kong – The Route of Wind and Wool

With Hong Kong’s torrents coming down and heat coming off of every surface, it seems strange to be packing down jackets, crampons,...

Jeff Fuchs

Jul 18, 20131 min read

Expedition Update: Jalamteas sponsors ‘The Route of Wind of Wool’ with green fuel

Not coming as a shock to many, our expedition has gained some fuel of the ancient green variety from my own co-founded ‘Jalamteas‘....

Jeff Fuchs

May 15, 20131 min read

‘Tea for Me Please’ Reviews our own Jalamteas’ Nannuo Mountain Puerh…and lov

Our very own Jalamteas’ Nannuo ‘unfermented’  Puerh tea cake gets a sip, a review, and then a good deal more sips from ferocious tea...

Jeff Fuchs

Jan 7, 20131 min read

Jalamteas Little Success Story Continues

With the New Year here in the present tense, we at Jalamteas wish to thank our sipping supporters who had a wonderful impact on our...

Jeff Fuchs

Dec 3, 20121 min read

A Tea Lover’s Blog Post about Jalamteas November 7th Tea Event

Rare stories and rarer tea with Jeff Fuchs here. An evening of Jalamteas presenting a new model of Subscribing for rare teas. #Puerh...

Jeff Fuchs

Apr 27, 20124 min read

A Time of Talk … of Tea – Xishuangbanna lll

There is always a kind of inevitability of events in China. With the rush, the masses, the intensity of purpose, things just MOVE!! There...

Jeff Fuchs

Apr 15, 20124 min read

An Arrival – Xishuangbanna/Sipsongbanna

Heat, Green, Some Characters…and more Green Somehow it will always come to a bit of fluid that is waiting There are moments when the...