Jeff FuchsMay 24, 20211 minInterview with Tea Biz - Informality shouldn't be lostA few thoughts shared in a recent interview with Tea Biz here. In the great rush of tea paraphernalia and in the increasingly creative...
Jeff FuchsMar 26, 20211 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - The Tea That Never CameA simple tea room in Weishan, Yunnan, and one of the only tea rooms in my life that I failed to actually have tea in. Weishan was another...
Jeff FuchsMar 7, 20212 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - Choices, No Choices, and some CourageAscending up to the Sho La Pass in northwestern Yunnan in May there would always be a chance of weather issues, but it would still be a...
Jeff FuchsFeb 21, 20211 minTea Horse Chronicles - The BendIt was here at the ‘first bend of the Yangtze’, at Shigu, in Yunnan province that the Mongolian armies of the Yuan Dynasty crossed the...
Jeff FuchsFeb 11, 20211 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - Other Tales and SightNot all stories of the Tea Horse Road were ones of grand expanses, snow caps, or buzzing tea sessions. A friend from the Yi minority...
Jeff FuchsFeb 9, 20211 minTea Horse Chronicles - Fields vs Forests Blankets and ridges of green stimulant leaf lie in rows near Puerh. Here the leaf is entirely industry. Gorgeous industry, but still...
Jeff FuchsJan 23, 20211 minTea Horse Chronicles - Blessings and WarningsIt was from this patch of grassland near Napa Lake, just north of my home in Dukezong (old town of 'Shangrila') that our expedition...
Jeff FuchsDec 30, 20201 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - The PluckNapu 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...
Jeff FuchsDec 27, 20201 minTea Horse Chronicles - The FryDakpa and I had been rolling around tea forests, tea houses, and tea characters for months at this point along portions and strands of...
Jeff FuchsDec 24, 20201 minTea Horse Road Chronicles - He Said, She KnewThis ‘moment’ was more accurately a series of moments and most of an afternoon, with an old muleteer and his wife. We interviewed the...
Jeff FuchsOct 28, 20208 minTea's Brilliant (and Needed) Informality Mr. Gao and his tidy moustache move past, beckoning me to join. He has finished a day of pan frying his remarkable teas, and now it is...