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
Feature Article in Outpost – The Kingdom of Lo (Mustang)
Climate in the Himalayas Continue reading
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
Nepal – The Buzz That Leads to the Sky
Tea and Mountains – The Buzz that leads to the Sky Continue reading
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
Puerh and its Other Worlds – Still There
Puerh and its spaces and people Continue reading
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
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
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