The Elusive and Endangered Yellow Tea
Yellow teas have been prized as Tribute Teas, and favored by emperors, for over a thousand years. Crafting yellow tea requires an intense amount of...
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"I wanted to know where the tradition of handling the teas came from, and who the people were that carried these traditions forward. This curiosity came to be the foundation for how I source tea for Cultivate, and has led me to discover incredible instances of care and craftsmanship in relation to nature – practices that produce truly beautiful and unusual teas. ."
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The Story Behind Our Tea Shop
"After four years in Beijing, we moved back to Vancouver in 2013. Our new place was fairly empty, but we had a tea set in the living room, and we would occasionally have friends over for a nice afternoon of tea over good conversations.
It was then that the idea of opening a tea shop first arose - we realized there was nowhere in the city for us to enjoy tea and try different teas in the company of others.."
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Mengding Mountain 蒙顶山
A recently published "Forbidden City Tribute Tea Collection" catalogs 50 kinds of Tribute Teas from 11 provinces in the Qing Dynasty. For the firs...
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