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Week In Pictures (August 29 – September 4)

Put together a set of birthday gifts for the one responsible for getting us into puer. Luckily we didn't have [...]

September 5, 2016

Week In Pictures (August 22 – 28)

This may look like a simple 80ml gaiwan, but in the Chinese #tea scene, pink is the hot colour this year. Why pink? It [...]

August 29, 2016

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Week In Pictures (August 15 – 21)

A pot of gold, or in this case a gong dao bei of gold at the end of the rainbow in our 2016 TMBA [...]

August 22, 2016

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Week In Pictures (August 8 – 14)

The newest addition to our gaiwan collection is a bit of a standout. We love that it's hand painted and thin walled, but it [...]

August 15, 2016

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Week In Pictures (August 1 – 7)

6 ancient #tea mountains, 6 teas. All old or ancient tree material. Soon. For now, there's some new teaware up in the store, including [...]

August 7, 2016

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Week In Pictures (July 25 – 31)

New wood fired #tea jars, with our 2007 Silver and Golden bowl tuo chas for scale. A photo posted by Bitterleaf (@bitterleafteas) on Jul 25, [...]

July 31, 2016

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Week In Pictures (July 18 – 24)

#Tea tasting aftermath: 2016 Rou Gui l Winter Wings 2015 Bang Dong raw l Mad King 2006 Ban Zhang raw l Diamond Cutter 2002 [...]

July 24, 2016

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Week In Pictures (July 10 – 17)

New teaware is now up in the shop, including these one-of-a-kind Ink splash gaiwans and matching cups. That's not all [...]

July 17, 2016

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Week In Pictures (July 3 – 9)

A gang of our new wood fired teacups hanging out and taking a break between product shots. They worked hard [...]

July 9, 2016

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Week In Pictures (June 26 – July 2)

The resident tea meowster, after patiently waiting for his humans to join him for some shou puer. The Chairman has [...]

July 2, 2016

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Week In Pictures (June 19 – 25)

Had the final touches put on a custom Jianshui pot we picked up for a certain tea-loving dad this week. [...]

June 25, 2016

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Week In Pictures (June 12 – 18)

Remnants of yellow (huang pian), white and black tea, all in a row. New teaware and old favourites that'll never [...]

June 18, 2016

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Week in Pictures (June 5 – 11)

Tamed a new teapet today with the help of a Warrior gaiwan. One of 4 new smurf-blue, dead stock ceramic [...]

June 11, 2016

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Week in Pictures (May 28 – June 4)

This post is a little more than a week in pictures, we know. We've been busy trying to prepare new teaware though, as evidenced [...]

June 5, 2016

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Week in Pictures (May 19 – 27)

Trying to put this puzzle together after a session with our WMD Mansa raw puer. Turns out any way works [...]

May 28, 2016

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Week in Pictures (May 12 – 18)

This last week was a busy one for us. We managed to get our modest collection of 2016 Spring teas released shortly after returning [...]

May 19, 2016

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Week in Pictures (May 2 – 11)

Trying something new, this is a summary of all, or at least most of, our social media pictures from week to week. Some pictures [...]

May 12, 2016

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2016 Yiwu Tea Competition in Pictures

These are a few pictures from day 2 (the most interesting/happening day) of a 3 day tea festival that happens every year in Yiwu. We [...]

May 1, 2016

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How Many Times to Brew Puer – A Not-So-Definitive Guide

One of Puer tea’s most attractive features is arguably its brewing endurance. Taste, complexity, variety and ability to age/mature are also main draws, but [...]

October 22, 2015

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Searching For Buried Treasure in the Kunming Tea Market

For lovers of puer and all things Yunnan tea, Kunming is a great place to be. Finding a tea shop or a tea house [...]

September 16, 2015

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