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  • Prague Tea Fest 2025

    Prague Tea Fest 2025

    Dennis Petersen

    Another year, another Prague Tea Fest—one of my favorite weekends of the year. This year, I had the privilege of running the presentation room and supporting presenters, getting a unique...

    Prague Tea Fest 2025

    Dennis Petersen

    Another year, another Prague Tea Fest—one of my favorite weekends of the year. This year, I had the privilege of running the presentation room and supporting presenters, getting a unique...

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Wuyishan, China

In the summer of 2024, I had the rare opportunity of travelling to China and visit Wuyishan. There, nestled in the mountains, behind buddhist monestaries and deep in the UNESCO world heritage natural reserve area, lies some of the most famous and historic tea that you can come across. Picked once a year, and processed carefully over months, this Yancha (Rock Tea) Oolong is used as formal gifts across china and has people travel across the country to visit the original "mother bushes". While there are several varieties of rock tea, they celebrate the original blend called "Da Hong Pao" (Big Red Robe) with an outdoor 100 person outdoor theater production. Every aspect of this tea is intense, from the terrain it's grown in, to the traditional processing including carefully roasting it over extreme temperatures and the result is a unique, mineral rich and delicately sweet tea. It's at this point you start treating and savouring tea like wine.

Tea from Wuyishan, China

Georgia (the country)

OK. Bear with me here. Russians drink a lot of tea. No really, like a. lot. Back in the days of soviet central planning, they outsourced the production of this to Georgia. Then, soviet union collapsed and I'll skip forward 20 years. Now we're seeing old tea fields being reclaimed and renewed by the younger generation and as a result, we're getting specialty tea made with Chinese methods, using Indian machinery while supporting the local villages by hiring the same ladies that picked it for the soviets. It's a been wild ride, but somehow a one hit wonder. It's still early days, but just between the two of us, even the french can't stay away.

Tea from Ozurgeti, Georgia

Sri Lanka

I will forever remember driving through the crown of emerald hills that make up the center of the sub-continent. During my time there we visited the communities that not only produce truly astounding amounts of handpicked tea, but also take inspiring care of their plants and their people. I visited schools, clinics, research institutes, factories and gardens alike. With one eye on the planet and another on their people, they make what i can best describe as the workhorse of tea. Drunk by the salary men of japan, and served during business dealings in Dubai, it'll keep you going too. Even with endless teas to choose from, I start almost every day with a cup of Radella black tea and oat milk (Yes, you can call me a heathen now).

Sri Lankan Tea

Brewing Implements

Before I forget. There's this company in Germany called Finum that makes great accessories to make the whole process of brewing loose leaf tea easier. I keep a decent stock of it, and import it directly from them. While you can it retail here and on Amazon, if you're running a business and need it wholesale just reach out and let me know. Wholesale pricing is available when ordering 100+ filters at a time.

Tea Accessories from Finum

Photo of Orangutan. Credit Martin Vandaagevenniet

Charity & Thanks

If you've made it this far, thank you. I hope you've found some tea that you enjoy and know while you drink it, I've donated 10% of the money to the Rainforest trust to stop deforestation and save other critical habitats. Last I checked, I was closing in on 10.000 acres. So thank you for helping me with that.

Read more about the Rainforest Trust