Category Archives: JalamTeas
A Brilliant Bit of Puerh Sampled…at Last
“What you taste when you know what has gone into creating that Pu erh cake of tea is an entirely different sensation than that same tea served without its story, without its hands”. Continue reading
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 because you can read, you can write, and can tell a story that many will … Continue reading
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 trip of sips with some of the most ancient of cultures of the green on the planet…from soil … Continue reading
Tea Horse Road – Nomad Style
Few can claim to live as simply and as absolutely efficiently within (and atop) their environment as the nomads (ndrog’ba) who have long learned to survive and thrive well above 4,000 metres. Closer to the sky than most, their lives … Continue reading
Tea Horse Road – The Faces
Beyond simply the daunting snow passes, eccentric bandits, and disorientation and dehydration abilities of the Tea Horse Road, there is the underside which kept business, business. Yeshi worked for one of the great family run companies, the Pomda-tsang, which ushered … Continue reading
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 Irish-Scotch bulk and a 6ft 7inch frame, this first time is something to enjoy, cherish, … Continue reading
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 vegetal mate. It is a kind of rite of passage to be taken, prepared, … Continue reading
Oolong Tea….Roasted
Oolong tea and particularly a roasted Oolong should be something crafted by masters, but often they are simply the creations of those hoping to ‘hide’ an inherently bad tea.
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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 trees. I’ll be in New York at the wonderful Tea Drunk sipping, serving, being … Continue reading
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 across jungles, into cultures, and all happily fuelled by teas of a different … Continue reading