Nannuoshan & students
Nannuoshan & students I feel restless, excited and curious, as I was about to leave for an exotic journey. A journey that will bring me back in time, in a school where today I will hold two seminars.Many years passed since...

Tea News · Apr 30, 2025

There is a tea for every mood
There is a tea for every mood Cosy, I am sitting at the wide, wooden table in the living room, close to the window. It's Saturday morning, outside is cold and foggy. The wood is burning in the fireplace. Hundreds of thoughts go th...

Tea News · Apr 30, 2025

In Search of Hei Cha in the South of China
In Search of Hei Cha in the South of China Guangzhou, 27 April 2025I spend the last day in Guangzhou entirely in the Fangcun market. Spencer returned home two days ago, leaving me without an interpreter; I will have to get by with my primitive...

Tea News · Apr 30, 2025

Jingdezhen, the Porcelain Capital (1)
Jingdezhen, the Porcelain Capital (1) Travelling in China can be very complicate, especially when you don't speak Chinese like me and no one around you can speak English! I always need somebody's help to understand how to get from a city...

Tea News · Apr 30, 2025

The nannuoshan tea list
The nannuoshan tea list We just finish to print and bind the tea list - the last step of a long process...The coverEverything started months ago, when we asked a calligraphy teacher in Hangzhou –a Chinese city famous also fo...

Tea News · Apr 30, 2025

Parcels from China for the Berlin tea shop
Parcels from China for the Berlin tea shop The nannuoshan tea house in Berlin opens next week! To participate to the opening event send us an email (info@nannuoshan.org or join our Facebook event.Last month we received the largest delivery of...

Tea News · Apr 30, 2025

Shanghai in winter
Shanghai in winter January 4, 2015Sunday evening in a chilly Shanghai. It's 7pm, my plane from Bangkok just touched ground.The calendar reminds me that in one a half hour I have to be at Longyan road for dinner. I rush...

Tea News · Apr 30, 2025

The black cups of the Jianyang kiln
The black cups of the Jianyang kiln The art of ceramics has ancient root in China. It culminated in the Tang dynasty (618-906 with the invention of porcelain. Over the centuries, different sites developed distinctive styles and firing...

Tea News · Apr 30, 2025

Fujian (1) - Fuzhou and Tanyang
Fujian (1) - Fuzhou and Tanyang April, 9 2015Fujian is the Chinese province with the greatest diversity of exclusive tea. The most famous oolong teas, Tieguanyin and Wuyi Yan Cha (Rock tea , both come from Fujian. Minhong gongfu, pr...

Tea News · Apr 30, 2025

Green in China. Black in the West.
Green in China. Black in the West. When I was a child my mum was serving tea in the afternoon, while I was doing my homework. There was no option; no green or black. There was just tea. Later I came to know it was black tea from India....

Tea News · Apr 30, 2025