Yunnan Taetea (Dayi) Group is one of the most well-known pu erh tea manufacturers in the world. The group owns several companies including the famous Menghai Tea Factory. Located in Menghai… Read More

As one of the four main Pu erh tea factories, Chinatea (Zhongcha), also known as China National Native Produce & Animal By-Products Import & Export Corporation (CNNP), has been thro… Read More

One of the things that I found the most confusing about puerh when I first got started was the numbers on factory puerh wrappers. There wasn’t a lot of information available way back w… Read More

With a history of over a thousand years of tea cultivation, Yunnan has given rise to many famous tea professionals. Zou Bingliang and Lu Guoling are among the best of the generations of &ldq… Read More

Can you believe that this is the last Friday Roundup of 2017? Time flies when you're having fun!The Most Inspiring Tea Blog Posts of 2017I'm beyond honored to be included in The Tea Squ… Read More

Traditional pu erh tea can take years to age, but this changed when the ‘wet piling’ or ‘wet storage’ method was discovered. Wet piling, in China known as ‘wo d… Read More