it’s the tenth anniversary of white2tea. new releases, aged cakes, unique experiments, limited edition productions; and we are just getting started
thank you to all of you for making white2tea possible. join us in the 2022 celebration
I recently celebrated my 15th anniversary in China since first coming to Yunnan in 2005. In an act of uncharacteristic personalization, I wrote a little blog post on the white2tea blog about myself and the history of white2tea to shed a little light on where this all began
once every two weeks I get some email like “My TEA has NOT arrived in THREE DAYS. Reply in 2 business hours or you will be REPORTED for FRAUD to my CREDIT CARD COMPANY” and it’s always their first order and they always have an aol email. how do these boomers find me
named teas Pussy and Lumber Slut specifically to avoid getting orders from these people. going to have double down on obnoxious tea names to ensure future orders do not occur
separating the broken bits from the buds, green tea making in Sichuan. dual purpose of cooling the tea down after the first shaqing step, before the tea is rolled by hand and heat dried. this is 2023 spring’s Cloud Mist Green
third tier pretend craft beers in China have the best brands. desperately trying to make your beer european sounding and landing on Count Beer, the Germany Earl. reminds me of when tea companies use some font named Kung Fu on their label for a tea they named Jade Dragon
two of the many, many skilled hands involved in Puer tea production. farming, picking, processing, sorting, shipping, pressing, wrapping and more. it takes so many workers to make Puer tea happen, truly an incredible effort
good morning Hong Kong. drinking 2017 baimudan from our white tea sampler because I forgot my Pretty Girls in my other bag. actually worked out pretty well
well, it is December and I am somehow still in the tea mountains of Menghai, so at least you all ought to benefit with some special shou Puer process video. This is machine separation of a large scale Puer pile, steam rolling off the hot, fermenting tea in the cool mountain air
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I didn’t have a plan to react to George Floyd’s murder online. I’m not one for corporate style lip service, but since I don’t have personal social media, this is the only platform I’ve got to express myself. Hopefully it will be taken as what it is; a sincere reaction.
people will refer to “tea farmers” as a singular entity who own land and produce tea, but that’s often not the case. making Puer tea is a process that involves dozens of workers, including this person who is picking huangpian out of fresh maocha in Yiwu
there are people out there who are like “my tea club arrived! 🥰🥰” and it’s something we sent during April early in the Bush administration and they never complained to me even once
these are the blessed teaclub members and they shall inherit the Earth
when the account with a million plus subscribers interviews a tea expert who incorrectly answers even basic Puer questions that any white2tea customer would know. fantastic!
we like to point it out from time to time, there is no magical old tea farmer who makes your tea. it’s dozens of skilled workers; farmers, pickers and processors, pressers and wrappers. an incredible amount of work goes into a tea cake, like this traditional bamboo tong wrapping
Always astonishing to me to see old heads insist that Puer “should” cost the same price it did years ago when they were living in a fully developed economic region and the farmers of Yunnan were impoverished. Touting cheap Bulang tea from an era when villages had no electricity
Complaints about the price of Puerh tea think nothing of the poverty in Yunnan when tea was so cheap. Really all the griping about 200 "American dollars" just enrages me.
If you’re just joining us, I am visiting a bunch of tea mountains that I rarely have time to visit during the spring when I am bogged down with making Puer tea in Yunnan. This is the Banyan area of Wuyi in Fujian
The kid eating noodles next to me is furiously telling his Mom that he does not want to go to elementary school next year because there are no toys there. Don’t give in kid. There are no toys and it’s a fucking scam
another day, another famed Sichuan tea house. Guanyin pavilion has a long and storied history, the dirt floors have soaked up a lot of tea spills. waiting patiently for fresh green teas and finished up our maojian no.2 from last spring in Guizhou
our May tea club exclusive 50g mini cake, pressed on the 20th, rested and dried a few days and ready to be wrapped. with the drought this year our timeline this spring was tight, but looks like it’ll all come together
new teas are up. a wild array. Puer, white, black, oolong, smoked, roasted, bamboo, heicha, fu bricks, you name it. all manner of wild experiments, years in the making blah blah blah. new teaware. why are you still reading this?
When you are hurriedly unwrapping a fresh tea cake you might have other things on your mind, but take one second to pause and think that there is a very skilled person somewhere here in Yunnan who moved their hands and wrapped that cake with astounding alacrity so you can open it
reminder: there are many skilled workers involved in your tea. This tea? Pickers, processors, fermenters, smokers, shipping, pressers, wrappers, more shipping. It’s not a one man show, it’s thirty people or more getting it done. Drink that next sip with a little extra gratitude
this dish is called guojiang ersi, which translates to river crossing ersi (a very dense rice noodle) - so named because you move the noodles from the first bowl into the second bowl of spicy soup as if they are crossing a river
what if we kicked off with a little tenth anniversary limited small batch shou that’s marked down in snoozefest fashion, how would that sit with everybody? just spitballing, let us know if you have notes
“There we are chap, I put our best teas in storage for aging just as we agreed,” said Frog.
“Hand them here, that I might sniff them a bit,” said Toad.
“Now now, you’re not going to drink them, are you Toad? We both agre...”
“Give me the fucking box,” interrupted Toad.
A lot of people feel squeamish about bugs, but finding certain insects on teas is a great thing. Especially since some of them drop dead at a the first whiff of pesticides. Finding thriving beetles in today’s tea picking is good news
Tip for evil grandparents: if you leave out a brightly colored dish of 2020 Tiltshift minis, your grandkids will be very excited for candy only to find bitter disappointment when they crunch into dry tea leaves. This will teach them an important life lesson and also be very funny