Long time readers of this blog may remember the batch of shou I made back in 2015 . Hard to believe three years have passed since I finishe...

YiwuMountainTea sample packs I received some unsolicited samples from a new company in Yunnan called Yiwu Mountain Tea.   The ow...

The online tea world just gets nastier every year. I look back to a couple of years ago and the conflicts in the puerh world seem warm ...

In November 2017, I was invited by Matt of mattchasblog to do a blind tasting of Yunnan Sourcing samples, in the manner of the ol...

Here is a letter I wrote to a long time nun friend. I have not written to her in some years. When I decided to write her again today,...

This year I decided to bake a fruitcake. I have made fruitcakes before, and even have a recipe I developed back in my vegan days u...