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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 29, 20145 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
May 4, 20146 min read
South Tea Sips 5: Concluding Sips…for now
One of the many tea hostesses that inevitably must tire of our continued sipping Last days inevitably require ‘last sips’, though no sips...
Jeff Fuchs
May 8, 20136 min read
South Tea Sips 4: The Extra Leaf
Bent over, with the smell of freshly fried tea literally steaming into me I am struck that the wafts emanating upwards seem a combination...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 25, 20137 min read
South Tea Sips 2: Meals, Forearms, and an Enduring Tea Truth
Meals seem to at times provide the only respite from the luscious infusions of tea which hit from everywhere at once. We sit in Dafa’s...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 27, 20136 min read
South Tea Sips l : Marco, Matè, and Menghai
Marco Antonio Zamboni Zalamena and his matè bag have arrived but I cannot find either. Three different bus stations in southern Yunnan’s...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 24, 20135 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
Dec 3, 20121 min read
Jingmai Pu’erh – The Mild Giant
When one is able to link a cup of tea – its leaves, strengths, and characteristics – to its origins, it creates a link that is...
Jeff Fuchs
May 11, 20127 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 27, 20124 min read
Up a Classic with a Classic – Xishuangbanna Continued
Teashops and tea cups have to at some point make way for the tea forests and fields. Fluid must give way to its ‘source’. As much as my...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 16, 20125 min read
A Tea for Departures – Lau Banzhang
Embarking for the south of Yunnan on the tea sourcing mission tomorrow, it seems a perfect time to indulge in a little ‘tea’ farewell...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 6, 20124 min read
“Hu Kai – A Tea of the Soul” … and one that still stuns the tongue
It remains a tea that I don’t get enough of (which will hopefully be remedied in the coming two weeks). My fierce Lahu contact in...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 29, 20121 min read
A Tea fit for a Trek
When selecting a tea for a mountain journey – and for every mountain journey there must be a tea – there is always a moment, a question:...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 12, 20125 min read
Guest Blog Post for Asha Tea House
Guest blog post for David Lau’s Asha Tea House in California on tea’s very simple and understated origins in southwestern Yunnan – Pulang...
Jeff Fuchs
Aug 27, 20111 min read
Latest post and video on Templar Food
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Jeff Fuchs
Jun 10, 20111 min read
Jeff Fuchs Talk and Tea Tasting
Upcoming talk at Museum of Nature in Ottawa Canada on the importance of trade and Puer in the Himalayas. Thyme and Again EXPOSURE Gallery...
Jeff Fuchs
Jun 7, 20111 min read
Nongyang
Sour Tea: The Indigenous World’s Treat Within the muggy mists of eastern Burma, amidst the toughened and muscular indigenous minorities...
Jeff Fuchs
Apr 29, 20116 min read
Pu’erh´s Ancient Green Home- Part II
We are heading to one of Xiao Yang’s ‘uncle’s’ homes for a sitting and sipping of a potent new batch of sheng (raw/green/unoxidized)...
Jeff Fuchs
Mar 9, 20113 min read
Puer´s Ancient Green Home- Part I
“with a cup of tea in front of you, you do not lie” Dai elder The Where’s: Southwestern Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Pulang Mountains The...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 23, 20113 min read
Welcome to the Jeff Fuchs Tea Blog
It seems only fair that this first tea entry begins where the ‘green’ begins – tea’s humid and understated roots. Here, where tea has...
Jeff Fuchs
Feb 23, 20112 min read
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