Welcome back to another episode of Tea Soup! First episode of 2026, and we are hitting the ground running. In this episode we briefly recap 2025, and talk about our spring tea trip out to the Jingmai Mountain. One of the new six famous tea mountains, Jingmai boasts the largest cultivated ancient tea garden on the planet! We talk about our experiences on the mountain, the culture, the tea, and of course hit some excellent tangents.
If you’re curious about Jingmai tea, check out the Illud Tempus tea cake available via One River Tea.
16 Oct 2025
Episode 46 - Zhangping Shuixian
Another episode with both Alex and Derek of the One River Tea Cooperative. We sat down while in Anhui searching for Qimen Hongcha to talk about a summer trip Alex and Xiaoyan took to Zhangping, home of China’s only pressed oolong, the Zhangping Shuixian.
We als briefly talk about our experiences in Qimen County, just west of Huangshan, and the curious people and teas we haw encountered. We finish the episode talking about the Cooperative structure of One River Tea and muse on a few organizations that have a very impressive social element like the Pang Dong Lai grocery store in Xuchang Hunan.
3 May 2025
Episode 45 - Spring Sourcing (Longjing, Dancong) 2025
In this episode we reflect on the wild spring tea tour we just finished in 2025. We visited the Jingmai mountains in Yunnan, Anji in Zhejiang, Hangzhou’s West Lake for Dragonwell, Chaozhou’s Wudong Mountain for the dancong, Yiwu, Huazhu Liangzi, Laobanzhang, Laoman’e, Menghai, and Bada for the puer. It has been a wild ride and we have so much to say, but first let’s just talk about seeing some old friends in Hangzhou and Wudong Mountian, that’s Shanshan and Zhang Hailang from Nine Trees and Wen Zitong in Wudong. Hopefully a lot of the green teas mentioned here are already in your tea cups at home! Some still available on the One River Tea website.
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