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Jeff Fuchs
Nov 9, 20172 min read
Our Tea Explorer at Hawaii’s International Film Festival
Tea-Fuelled fun on the tea stained carpets And so our Tea Explorer documentary of mountains, memories and leaves opened at the Hawaiian...


Jeff Fuchs
Oct 31, 20171 min read
The Tea Explorer Film to Screen at Hawaii International Film Festival
On November 6th, our documentary, The Tea Explorer, will show at the Hawaii International Film Festival. Tea’s origins and that wonderful...


Jeff Fuchs
Oct 15, 20175 min read
Sips at the 2017 International Tea Conference in Hubei
Tea covers and stretches across entire hillsides of the province of Hubei and yet I’ve never been. While I’d heard of the teas, none I...


Jeff Fuchs
Sep 9, 20172 min read
Tea Explorer Extended Run – On CBC’s Doc Channel
We’re delighted to announce that our documentary film The Tea Explorer film is getting an additional airing on Sunday Sept, 10th at 9 pm...


Jeff Fuchs
Aug 12, 20175 min read
Moments with an Aging Classic – Bada at 10 years
“Forget about worrying about age. Forget it! If a tea isn’t made well, it isn’t going to become better. It is just going to age”....


Jeff Fuchs
Jul 26, 20171 min read
Interview with Love for Tea – The Tea Explorer
Love when the word ‘conversation’ is used instead of Interview. Had a wonderful ‘conversation’ with the eloquent Ruhani Sandhu of Rangsaa...


Jeff Fuchs
Jul 25, 20171 min read
Our ‘The Tea Explorer’ Doc Film Gets Some Blushing Reviews
After much time, edits, permits, scoring the music and still more editing down from the team at 90th Parallel Productions, our first...


Jeff Fuchs
Jul 5, 20174 min read
Mustang – Part 2 – Route of Khampas
“A land of little and a route of much” is how I often view this present journey and it is how I’ve viewed many of Himalayan trade routes...


Jeff Fuchs
Feb 24, 20176 min read
Darjeeling Chronicles 1 (of 2) – To Jungpana Slowly
An act that will repeat itself again and again…the great pour. A joy is sometimes not having a huge frame of reference nor expectation....


Jeff Fuchs
Aug 12, 20166 min read
He Kai Ancient Tree Puerh – A Long Walk
Nothing quite ‘scars’ the palate like a magnificent hit of a powerful tea. From that moment forward something has changed and it might as...


Jeff Fuchs
Jul 13, 20162 min read
Puerh – The ‘Sort’
Tea ends up in nuggets and in twisted desiccated things of tangy beauty. Cakes and compressed forms line shelves and delicate curled buds...


Jeff Fuchs
Jul 8, 20164 min read
Puerh – Age and Other Words
Worlds of tea exist in twisted semi-fermented forms, flat green shapes and black beetle bits. Formats, ferments, withering, fries and...


Jeff Fuchs
Apr 4, 20161 min read
Tea Journey Begins
Tea Journey Magazine is now up and running on Kickstarter for the next 60 days. A great initiative for one of the fastest growing...


Jeff Fuchs
Mar 20, 20161 min read
Tea’s Last Guardians – The Himalayan Muleteers and the Tea Horse Road
Joining the storied Royal Geographical Society here in London as they host my upcoming talks: Tea’s Last Guardians – The Himalayan...


Jeff Fuchs
Mar 12, 20163 min read
Pu erh Tea and its Precious Pickers
There is much made of a tea’s geographic designation, its altitude, its harvest season, and its growers…and there should be! The earth,...


Jeff Fuchs
Feb 18, 201611 min read
Pu erh’s Needed Basics
“Discussions about a specific tea should be left until during and after the sipping and too many words simply lead one to question the...


Jeff Fuchs
Jan 26, 20161 min read
Speaking About the Ancient Tea Horse Road
Great pleasure reminiscing and chatting about the Tea Horse Road on Talk Travel Asia with Scott Coates and Trevor Ranges. Thoughts of...


Jeff Fuchs
Jan 23, 20161 min read
Toronto Tea Festival – Speaking About (and Sipping) Puerh
Delighted to be speaking and slurping away at this year’s annual Toronto Tea Festival on behalf of our own JalamTeas. A fierce tea...


Jeff Fuchs
Jan 5, 20164 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 7
More of the precious from 2015. A final Ascent…An End and the New Beginnings A morning snow, A Lao Banzhang Leaf, A Mountain Steward, A...


Jeff Fuchs
Dec 31, 20151 min read
Tribute Photos to a Year of Tea and Mountains – 6
Magnificent Raju, an old friend, and landscapes that are tortured and utterly narcotic. The Mountains’ and their people and spaces that...
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