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Shiuwen, the owner of Floating Leaves, invites guests to her tea table for good discussion and a pot of gongfu cha.

Floating Leaves Tea Floating Leaves Tea

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    • 4.9 • 21 Ratings

Shiuwen, the owner of Floating Leaves, invites guests to her tea table for good discussion and a pot of gongfu cha.

    Tea Cups : Quality

    Tea Cups : Quality

    Shiuwen, John and Noah compare grades of porcelain in gongfu tea cups, and investigate what each cup does to a tea.

    • 39 min
    Tea Cup Materials

    Tea Cup Materials

    We're back! First episode in the new Tea Studio! We're starting with an easy experiment, but also a very useful one : tasting tea out of different materials like glass, mass produced ceramic mugs and porcelain etc. Join us and give it a try at home!

    • 22 min
    Drinking Old Tree White Tea from Yunnan

    Drinking Old Tree White Tea from Yunnan

    This is a little interim episode with no video component while John is away. We've been wanting to record a session with this tea for about a year now, and although we're very close to sold out of it now, we thought it would be fun to share our experience for those that have the tea already. It's the Nightshade White Tea. Harvested in 2020 it's already mellowed nicely with age. If we get another chance to buy a tea like this we'll jump on it, because this was an awesome session. If you got this one, let us know in the comments if you had similar or different impressions when you tasted it.

    • 31 min
    What’s Your Intention?

    What’s Your Intention?

    In this episode we explore how we go about setting our intention and adjusting for the tea in this ever changing moment.

    • 47 min
    Self Expression Through Gongfu Cha

    Self Expression Through Gongfu Cha

    This episode we explore ways to build understanding and express our vision of what a tea can be.

    • 46 min
    Techniques For Brewing Oriental Beauty

    Techniques For Brewing Oriental Beauty

    There's finally a tea in our lineup that we're using lower than boiling temperature water! Special Reserve Oriental Beauty. In this episode we talk about how we approach this tea and tell stories about our first encounters with it.

    • 53 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
21 Ratings

21 Ratings

sam butar ,

Lighthearted, informative, easy to listen

Love love love this podcast. It’s engaging and informative yet easy to digest and fun. A lot of it is centered around oolong—tasting notes with a lot of interesting tea philosophy and journey.
Thank you for this wonderful podcast

Zenthropologist ,

Finally

I’ve been looking for an Oolong centered active tea podcast that is enjoyable to listen to and gets into deep tea culture with hints of philosophy. This is truly a gem of a podcast

GALinReston ,

If you're serious about tea, this is a must listen

Love this podcast. So much fun. So much information. And I learn about teas I might not have understood or ordered without the podcast. Win, win, win.

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