by D.O. Rothenberg | Dec 4, 2021 | 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 | Nov 5, 2019 | History & Culture, Living in China
I write currently from my window seat on the bullet train to Guangzhou from Chaozhou county, Guangdong, where I spent the weekend processing Dancong Oolong tea. Mainly, I went in order to practice tea processing and learn as much as possible from the local tea master....
by D.O. Rothenberg | Oct 3, 2019 | Best Infusion Practices, Effects on Human Health, Tasting & Quality Assessment, Tea Education
“Caution: Contents Hot!” The ubiquitous warning label reminding us that our hot things are hot. As the story goes, an ill-fated woman discovered the hard way in a McDonalds parking lot in 1994 that hot coffee spilled on the lap causes burns. On the one side,...
by D.O. Rothenberg | Oct 1, 2019 | History & Culture, Major Types & Sub-Types, Tea Education, Tea Plant Biology & Cultivation
A sign in Nannuo that reads, “please protect the ancient tea trees, do not pluck without permission” To my astonishment, there were 300-year-old, lichen-laden wild tea trees scattered across the mountain in all directions. The high canopy provided shade,...
by D.O. Rothenberg | Sep 29, 2019 | History & Culture, Major Types & Sub-Types, Tea Education, Tea Plant Biology & Cultivation
Nannuo Shan Raw puer tea from Nannuo Shan, or Nannuo Mountain, is often found on the short lists of aficionados the world over. But what is it that gets Nannuo tea consistently ranked among the top? I felt I had stumbled upon the answer to that question on a trip to...
