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Nannuoshan & students

Nannuoshan back to school! Last weekend Gabriele held two tea seminars in Verona for the Chinese students of the Institute L. Einaudi and for the members of the Cultural Association inAsia. Continue reading

Fujian (1) - Fuzhou and Tanyang

Gabriele moves south to Fujian, a province with an impressive diversity of outstanding teas. In this first blog entry he describes the first days in the province, spent in the capital Fuzhou and in the small mountain village of Tanyang. Here he witnessed the production of the local black and white teas in a family driven farm. Continue reading

The Real Keemun Black Tea

Gabriele is in a small village in the Qimen county to procure authentic Qimen Hong Cha, the black tea known in Western world as Keemun. Keemun nowadays refers to black tea produced in large quantities and automated fashion by big tea company. Nevertheless, in the Qimen county, is still possible to find the original Qimen Hong Cha, still produced completely by hand by local farmers. Continue reading