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Some new teas available, including special sealed batches of Zhangping Shui Xian, and some 2025 dancong curated in collaboration with Zoey's Tea
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FYI, some of Zoey's 2025 tea is/will be available at my website

Documentary about Zhangping Shui Xian we filmed this year available to watch here:

New blog about sourcing Zhangping Shui Xian oolong: https://pastleaf.com/blogs/blog/zhangpi ... oolong-tea

Yesterday I found out that not all white teas were baked. This months after "finding out" that white teas were baked. Now I've understand that while you can bake white teas you dont have to and it affects the flavor and how the teas will change over time. Baked teas, especially charcoal baked will ...

New 2025 wild red tea available. This is an interesting tea, also from Wuliang Shan like our puerh tea this year. Picked from wild trees and sun-dried. It rewards patient brewing because the emphasis is on the aftertaste over many steeps.

Interesting. Parts of your "private collection imitation" teaware for 120 USD can be had, I suppose from that same "private collector", for 3 USD, enough to do one image search. The imitation crackle celadon you mentioned was there yesterday before you posted this comment, and now it's gone. This d...

Our latest blog about puerh tea from Wuliang Shan: https://pastleaf.com/blogs/blog/wuliang ... f-puer-tea

We update our blog a few times per month, here is our blog about sourcing Pre-Qingming Dragonwell this year: https://pastleaf.com/blogs/blog/what-is ... dragonwell

We have released a wide range of teaware that we've sourced from private collections over the years. Take a look here: https://pastleaf.com/collections/vintage-teaware

Has anyone found any particular luck with finding clay pairings for Hongcha (other than minimally altering clays)? I've seen some people use Nixing, but I didn't find the results of that enjoyable. I've had luck recently with Staffordshire Redware, but this is quite an unusual clay. I like high fir...

Visit our website: www.pastleaf.com We are a new vendor, starting in Spring 2025. We accompany our products with videos and blogs so customers can learn more about where these products come from. Pastleaf is a small, independent tea shop based in Guangdong, China, an ideal location to store and ship...

How long have you been drinking tea? Entire life What kind of tea do you drink? Primarily raw puerh nowadays, hong cha, and oolong How do you prepare your tea? Porcelain gaiwan, but I also use vintage Factory 1 Yixing and modern Yixing What tea knowledge are you interested in exploring right now? I...