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...
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Jeff Fuchs
- Jan 18, 2019
- 2 min
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...
Jeff Fuchs
- Dec 8, 2018
- 7 min
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...
Jeff Fuchs
- Sep 7, 2018
- 7 min
Puerh and its Other Worlds – Still There
Puerh – The Forest Journeying back into Yunnan’s Xishuangbanna for a later than usual annual immersion into Puerh sourcing, learning and...
Jeff Fuchs
- Mar 29, 2018
- 5 min
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...
Jeff Fuchs
- Mar 22, 2018
- 1 min
The Tea Explorer – Film Night in NYC
Looking forward to this little tea infused event hosted by Museum of Tea and Floating Mountain in New York City. Director Andrew E.M....
Jeff Fuchs
- Feb 12, 2018
- 2 min
Puerh – A Sheng Takes the Palates
Snow has that wonderful natural ability to paint big swaths white, and slow everything down to a trickle. “Cooperate or perish” say many...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jan 29, 2018
- 6 min
Travelling Puerh and the ‘Nonsense’ Tea
Sometimes there are simple choices rendered simple. Long travel hours and days with bags, different rooms, and tents where the senses are...
Jeff Fuchs
- Dec 15, 2017
- 1 min
International Tea Day – Lao Banzhang Mentor
Thought I’d be remiss if I didn’t bow the head to a quiet mentor of mine in the tea world during this International Tea Day. Master...
Jeff Fuchs
- Dec 1, 2017
- 8 min
Puerh’s Ancient Cylinder – 竹面 – Zhú tǒng
A local with a freshly unveiled ‘tong’ coming out of its bamboo home. The round cylinder of compressed Puerh, known in southern Yunnan to...
Jeff Fuchs
- Oct 15, 2017
- 5 min
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, 2017
- 2 min
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, 2017
- 5 min
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, 2017
- 1 min
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 13, 2016
- 2 min
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, 2016
- 4 min
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
- Feb 18, 2016
- 11 min
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 5, 2016
- 4 min
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
- Jun 6, 2015
- 7 min
Southwest – Arriving to Pu erh Tea Central
Flights can anesthetize one from a full-on experience at times (however brutal that experience might be) and so it is that the journey...
Jeff Fuchs
- Jun 8, 2014
- 1 min
Financial Times reviews our JalamTeas’ Tea of the Month Club…and loves it
Financial Times reviews (after significant sipping) our JalamTeas’ Tea of the Month Club offerings…and loves them. Sampling our rare...
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