by D.O. Rothenberg | Dec 4, 2021 | Cultivation, Tea Education
“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho famously has the line, “Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.” In the Wu Mountain sphere of content creativity, a good thing recently occurred for...
by D.O. Rothenberg | Oct 22, 2021 | Major Types & Sub-Types, Tasting & Quality Assessment, Tea Education, Tea Plant Biology & Cultivation
The ides of October have passed, and Halloween nears, promising with it pillow cases of sucrose, crisp flannel temps, spooky pumpkins, and my favorite of all… fresh apples. The forbidden fruit. Honeycrisps, Fujis, Galas, Empires – I love ‘em all (not you Red...
by D.O. Rothenberg | Oct 12, 2021 | Effects on Human Health, History & Culture, Major Types & Sub-Types, Processing, Tasting & Quality Assessment, Tea Education
‘Puer’ (or pu’er, pu’erh, or 普洱 – pronounced pooh like the bear, and arhh like a pirate)… means multiple things. Firstly, it’s a place in China. As most places in China, Puer regional history is recounted with millennia rather than centuries. It’s a Southwest border...
by D.O. Rothenberg | Dec 1, 2020 | History & Culture, Industry Issues, Tea Education, Tea Plant Biology & Cultivation
A worn and weathered large-leaf Assamica strain planted from seed in the 1970’s Cultural Revolution. I sampled the soil around this tree in Spring of this year, discovering to my amazement that over the decades it had cultivated an intricate network of beneficial...
by D.O. Rothenberg | Nov 22, 2020 | Major Types & Sub-Types, Processing, Tasting & Quality Assessment, Tea Education, Tea Plant Biology & Cultivation
Grab the popcorn! Our new Youtube video follows the six steps of Oolong tea craftsmanship, exploring flavor formation through a scientific lens, and through the eyes of Wu Mountain friend and mentor, Ajin, an Oolong Tea Master making great tea in China’s...
