Tea Education

  • Pre-Sale Updates: Timeline

    by Dylan Conroy
    Hello Everyone. I Want to first thank everyone for their interest and support of the 2025 presales. This years presale was the biggest yet and I lo...

  • Presales are live!

    by Dylan Conroy
    Presales are back this year, but they are a little different. In the past there have been some struggles with presales. One of the main struggles b...

  • The Difference Between Leaf Pick and Quality.

    by Dylan Conroy
    Now before we get into this I do want to take a moment to recognize that buds can be important part of quality. If you have me choose from two Qime...

  • An Unexpected Shop. An Unexpected Tea

    by Dylan Conroy
    From the outside it looks like a phone shop with a tea table. The awning is for a phone store and one wall as well as the back of the store is fill...
    Posted in white tea

  • A Tale of Two Tea Shops: Part One

    by Dylan Conroy

    We talked about many things, mostly the differences in locations within Fu Ding. He, unlike other sellers I had met, did not regard one area as better than others. He saw all areas in Fu Ding as capable of making good tea. I enjoyed this attitude even if I did think some areas were better than others.

  • Bai Lin Red Tea

    by Dylan Conroy
    The weather in Fu Ding is getting cold, especially nights. Add the chilliness of the cold mountain air of 700 meters and it’s no surprise that I’ve...

  • A Trip to a Superior Tea Region

    by Dylan Conroy
    There is way more to white tea flavors than you may think. Recently I went to Guan Yang in search of tea. Guan Yang is a well known town within the...
    Posted in sourcing, tea education

  • I Tried Little Veggie Silver Needle

    by Dylan Conroy
    When living in the tea region, diving deep into the local teas, sometimes to find the unique flavors you have to turn to an unlikely source…Tao Bao...

  • A Brief Intro to Little Veggie White tea

    by Dylan Conroy
    In retrospect, Mao Feng was easy. Huang Shan Mao Feng really only has one cultivar. Mao Feng’s local cultivar is reliable enough that it is used ac...

  • Can You Ruin White Tea?

    by Dylan Conroy
    I handed them the bag. They opened it, took one sniff and said “It’s ruined. I can’t drink it” I had brought them a few bags and they quickly went through them all and quickly came to the same conclusion.

  • Three Things You Probably Didn't Know About Qimen

    by Dylan Conroy
    Qimen is the most widely known yet generally misunderstood tea. Actually, to say it's misunderstood is not accurate. There just doesn't seem to be ...

  • There is a type of tea slowly taking over the tea market and it has the potential to cause real harm.

    by Dylan Conroy
    I stood in the workshop of the Family I buy tea from. The single room across from the family’s home was filled with people. Besides the family who ...