In the Western imagination, it is often difficult to brew green tea properly. And yet, in China, we drink green tea all day long and in all situations: on public transport, in the park, at work, sitting on a stool in the street watching people go by ... Isn't that contradictory? One of the most traditional ways to brew green tea in China is to simply put a few tea leaves in a cup. And keep that cup in place most of the day, just adding hot water regularly. In recent years, people becoming more and more nomadic, everyone walks around with their hermetic transparent glass cup that can be filled with hot water at every corner. There are hot...
They are an old family from Lingtou, a village in the Phoenix Mountains, near Chaozhou in Guangdong, where one of the most aromatic wulongs in China is produced.This village, less known than Wudong, is the cradle of many mother tea plants. And the Zhang family is fortunate to be the guardian of some of these prestigious tea plants.Traditionally, true Wulong Dancong have the particularity of being harvested from a single tea plant and not of being a batch of leaves harvested in a plantation. The Zhang family continues this tradition and offers us the chance to have access to real Dancong.The son, thanks to his acquaintances all around the Phoenix mountains, helped us a lot to discover other gold nuggets...
Nestled in the Cha Jia dwelling in the middle of the mountains surrounding Taiping Lake in the Yellow Mountains, the Lü family is producing tea for generations and is maintaining the tradition of sustainable agricultural methods.A few years ago, I met Laolü while searching for Hou Kui. Our second child was born and I was very concerned about the pesticides we were daily exposed to in China. He invited us to come and see by ourselves and explain their policy about chemicals. We even took part in the entire picking season in 2019.He met his wife at agricultural college in Huangshan city : she is out of a family of Qimen producers. This year, our Yellow Mountain teas will come...
Over fifteen years driven by our passion for tea ... More than five years roaming tea gardens ... Producer friends all across China ... And now, a crazy desire to share. In 2014, we had the opportunity to go and work in China. For tea enthusiasts, this was an unexpected proposal. Learning Chinese was the most complicated step, but as soon as we learned their language, the doors of passionate producers opened. Very quickly, we made some real friends in the Chinese tea world. It was the beginning of the discovery of a world that we had barely touched on in Europe ... Célia et Arnaud
