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2026 Taiwanese Oolongs are here

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All whole white tea cakes briefly on sale

14 curated pressings from Fuding + Zhenghe

Yunnan Field Trip

25 gram mao cha packets of ancient tree raw pu'er
Taste all five of the Banzhang Villages + more

Fresh greens are here!

choice ecological heirlooms, worth the wait

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What is a Daily Drinker?

Let’s start 2026 with a new category addition to the shop dropdown: “Daily Drinkers”
A term many of you are already familiar with, a daily drinker is a workhorse tea that reliably delivers that good tea thing so dear to us while not breaking the bank in the process...

New Tea Travel docu-series!

Episodes will be released featuring various tea terrains visited in spring 2025.
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good tea + hospitality > western paranoia

New blog post inspired by our recent trip to Taiwan, that asks the question 'are we too obsessed with authenticity in tea'?

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🍵 quality 茶, simple + transparent
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📼 latest tea travel episode ↓

each one of these three goes really really deep #

Help celebrate 7 years 🎊 I’ve never done one of th

Dropping tomorrow ☁️ Lin’s 2026 High Bush Zhangpi

Field trip to the river. While I drink raw pu’er

Long Feng Xia in the forest shade on these hot day

A new curation of fresh Formosa cloud nectar is fi

Thank you all for a wonderful reception for this y

Sheng pu’er trends over the last decade+ have slow

The new documentary episode dives into the green t

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