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THE PRODUCERS

Every year, we go to Yunnan to find the producers and develop with them our Pu'Erh teas.
We share with you our discoveries and our meetings.
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SUMMERTIME

Some pictures of "Gong Fu Cha" Festival - teas of Chinese culture.
Published on thursday 10 july 2025
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LET'S CELEBRATE OUR TWENTY YEARS!

In June 2005, we left for our very first trip to Yunnan, passing through Vietnam with a goal, an idea in mind: «go see the old tea trees».
Published on saturday 21 june 2025
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PU'ERH “TO START”

We are often asked “how to start with the Pu'Erh”: what to choose to learn about this large family of teas? Here are some answers.
Published on friday 02 may 2025
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PICKING PU'ERH TEA LEAVES

We invite you to discover some photographs of the harvests in the gardens of our relatives, where our Pu'Erh are harvested.
Published on thursday 24 april 2025
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NUREN : WOMEN

For this "International Women’s Rights Day", we wish to pay tribute to the women we met during our travels in China.
Published on wednesday 12 march 2025
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THES TERRE DE CIEL : BEST WISHES FOR YEAR OF THE S

On January 29th, 2025 Lunar New Year's Day also called «Spring Festival» (Chun Jie) we will leave the year of the Wood Dragon to enter the year of the Wood Snake. Let's discover this mysterious sign - by tasting some Pu'Erh!
Published on saturday 25 january 2025
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THES TERRE DE CIEL : 20 YEARS

We celebrate the 20th birthday of Thés Terre de Ciel. First let s visit our reserve : the collection of teacakes that we produced, our 100 gr "tea babies".
Published on thursday 16 january 2025
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2025 ON THE TEA TRACKS

At the beginning of this year, thank you very much for your support and trust. We will continue to offer you the best of our discoveries and experience.
Published on monday 30 december 2024

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TdC - BANG WAI 2018

Respectable tea trees Published on wednesday 18 july 2018

Summer always reminds to us our first steps in Pu'Erh tea mountains, in search of the old tea trees : unforgettable initiatory journey, during 2005 summer.

We met the first ones of these majestic trees in Nannuo Mountains and in Hekai : kings with dignity honored or patriarches of gardens.

Today, we invite you meeting some of those respectable tea trees and some other remarkable ones we have pleasure to find again every season in our favourite terroirs, as old friends.

Patriarches and Kings of Tea trees

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Zhu Lin Zhai in Nannuo Mountains, in 2005

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The King of Trees looked tired at that time

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Zhu Lin Zhai in Nannuo Mountains, in 2005

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The King of Trees looked tired at that time

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But really better a few years later, in 2014

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Xiang Zhu Qing, near Fengqing

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3200 years old.

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Very much honored and visited

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Nannuo Shan

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Ban Po Lao Zhai village, a lot of tea tourists come here

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The tree has to be protected against wild picking and other wastes.

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Man Hong in Jing mai mountains

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Imperial Garden in Kunlu Shan

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Some says 800 years old

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Bangwai

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1800 years ols

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Precious picking,

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rederved to the inhabitants of the village.

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Winter 2015

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Pasha

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King from the village!

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Qing Jia Zhai, in Ailao mountains

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A very high (2470 meters) and remote place.

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Long walk up to see this wild tree. 2700 years ols

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Other wild tea tree in this preserved forest

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Kunlu Shan wild forest.

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Have a look on the wild and very old tea tree.

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The tree is tall, looking for light.

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Bada

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Bulang's people festival

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There are trees revered by the passers-by and the visitors at any time of the year, by burning some incense: as in Kunlu Shan imperial garden, in Qianjiazhai or near Fengqing.
There are those who, in villages or in some gardens, are decorated and receive offerings at special times, as Bulang new year, in Jingmai or in Bada.
Finally, there are those who make the pride of the producers: the most beautiful tree of their garden or the oldest one.
Some are wild, established at the heart of remote mountains; others were cultivated and are harvested every year, this picking is supposed to be reserved for the villagers. Their ages are varied, but always respectable.
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First of them, known as being the patriarch: let us begin with King of Xiang Zhu Qing's, (a village close to Fengqing).
Old one, for sure... because this tree (which would have been planted by man's hand) was dated as 3200 years old. By contemplating it, one loses time measure.

Age and size do not still go hand in hand, everything also depends on the soil, the heat and on the hygrometry.
But the sensation of power and stability one feels remains always the same..

The crossing of time - of centuries in fact - gives them a particular aura. We use to embrace them and to settle against them a few moments with eyes closed.
We find same impressions by tasting the tea stemming from the harvest of unique old trees.
It is moving to notice how much each has its own personality and its particular flavors, even when we compare two trees standing very close in the same garden.
We also had the privilege to enjoy Pu' Erh stemming from Bangwai King of trees, old of some 1800 years: it was an unforgettable experiment.

The skin of trees

These old tea trees are also a happiness for the photographer and offers us moments of pure poetry.
Leaves, flowers, barks, interlaced wood, tea trees in the mist and sometimes frozen in the ice: it will be the purpose of our next post.

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