The joy of a bit of time-hit leaf beauty. Age hasn’t always been something I’ve ever been convinced matters in any tea. Age of bushes, of...

Few have had quite the leaf influence upon me, as has Mr. Gao (aka Dr. Gao, Master Gao, or just Master). From his understated approach to...

To the leaves, the pluckers, the makers, the sippers, the sources, the transporters and all of the tellers of tales. And tho this group...

Joyfully returning to my Tea Sessions column in collaboration with Outpost Magazine with a piece on one of my favourite tea servers and...

One of the most exquisite pieces of tea porn I’ve come ever across was this compressed mass of large leaf material, formed into seven...

Given the span of time and efforts to immerse in leaves and the lives connected to tea, there aren’t many more satisfying additions than...

Blankets and ridges of green stimulant leaf lie in rows near Puerh. Here the leaf is entirely industry. Gorgeous industry, but still...

Napu went up the tea tree amid a forest of tea trees, shimmying along a support branch, until she could access the buds and leaves two...

Dakpa and I had been rolling around tea forests, tea houses, and tea characters for months at this point along portions and strands of...

We are engulfed in the ancient tea forest. Damp earth and mushroom smells hit us as Napu walks out in front of us through an entire world...