- Dec232016
Snow Orchid, Peaceful Christmas & Prosperous New Year
Read moreOxidation room An European importer recently asked me: how do they get such wonderful aroma in the leaves? Referring to an oolong he bought. The chamber in which tealeaves are gently bruised…
Leo Kwan - Dec132016Tea Hong
- Dec022016
The Little Bug that Created a Tea
Read moreTea Green Leafhopper is a small pest in the tea field. Yet without it a most beautiful tea cannot be produced. It is the chain biochemistry reaction in one particular tea plant after the leaf has been bitten by this tiny creature that results in the unique Beauty of the Orient…
Leo Kwan - Nov112016
A Premodern White Peony?
Read moreBefore the modern white tea cultivars Before there were the Dai Bai cultivars for making the different white teas as we know them today, older forms of the tea category had been made for centuries.…
Leo Kwan - Nov032016
How to Properly Store Your Tea
Read moreBefore the tea is shipped to you All our premium green teas and green style oolongs have been stored at 5°C or lower before shipping. Larger stocks of these at -18°C. This…
Tea Hong - Oct032016
Poor Men’s Song Cultivar
Read moreSmall white There actually isn’t a Small White in Fenghuang Dancong, but a cultivar named Fenghuang Baiye — i.e. Phoenix White Leaf. It is the material that makes our Phoenix Classic, a…
Leo Kwan - Sep222016
The Black Tea that My Longjing Farmer Drinks
Read moreMrs Wu, wife of our Longjing farmer Every time I see Mrs Wu I feel happy just to see the big smile on her round, rosy cheek. The plump, sunny woman is…
Leo Kwan - Sep192016
Return of Song Cultivar
Read moreBad news 2016 has been a bad year for Song Cultivar. The making of this premium quality Fenghuang dancong requires a clear sunny day at the time of plucking the leaves at…
Leo Kwan - Sep092016
Tea for Mooncake?
Read moreMid Autumn Festival As the shape of the moon grows fuller towards what the lunar calendar marks as Mid-Autumn, Mooncake Festival is around the corner. There is a popular belief that pu’er would…
Tea Hong - Aug172016Leo Kwan