Tag Archives: Pu’erh

White Tea Trials on the Big Island and the Memory of a Mentor

Perspective, the genius and inspiration of Mr. Gao, and a Hawaiian grown white tea Continue reading

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Feature Article in Outpost – The Kingdom of Lo (Mustang)

Climate in the Himalayas Continue reading

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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 China, where the leaf is still at times an imprecise thing of random … Continue reading

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Nepal – The Buzz That Leads to the Sky

Tea and Mountains – The Buzz that leads to the Sky Continue reading

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The Tea That Got Away

Every single year on the tea foraging and sourcing missions I go on, there is a tea that – for any number of reasons – I miss out on acquiring. Here, I’m speaking about good teas that ‘hit’ me. The … Continue reading

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Mustang Spaces 2 – The Cup, The Mountains

The Tibetan term ‘gtum mo’, pronounced “Tummo” refers to the tantric tradition of meditation that summons or produces heat and a kind of blissful warmth within the body. It is a kind of yogic heat, which is attained through a … Continue reading

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Puerh and its Other Worlds – Still There

Puerh and its spaces and people Continue reading

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In from the Outpost – Peru Tributes

What reassuringly startles the mind – while settling the heart – at times is the sheer symmetry of landscapes and spaces, and the cultures that reside within and with them. The methodology that people use to deal with spaces and … Continue reading

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Our “The Tea Explorer” doc film wins Silver World Award

Chuffed that our recent documentary “The Tea Explorer” just won a Silver World Award at this year’s 2018 New York Festivals International TV and Film awards in the History and Society category. Some gratitude to Canada’s own national broadcaster CBC’s … Continue reading

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Gyokuro – A Small Immersion into Umami

The little cedar hand-crafted box had been brought by a friend Tomoyo from Japan and had been waiting to be opened for months. Tidy and scented, the box had remained in a room close to cakes of Puerh, leaves of … Continue reading

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