New Tea Magazine

[jpr54_]

I just received issue #1 of this beautiful magazine-

I purchased it from www.houdeasianart.com

they also have a wonderful selection of teas

Edited December 26, 2006 by jpr54_ (log)

[mikepetro]

I just received issue #1 of this beautiful magazine-

I purchased it from www.houdeasianarts.com-

they also have a wonderful selection of teas

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Here is a review I posted in another forum.

The Art of Tea #1

Roughly 192 pages for list price of USD$12.99

Only 14 pages of advertising, I hope this is a trend that continues as

some of the publisher's Chinese language publications are dominated by

advertising.  While there are some articles written by Vendors, the

articles are quite legitimate, they are not masqueraded advertising at

all.

Nice selection of articles, probably half were on puerh, the rest

varied from Oolongs, Arts, Yixing, Gong Fu, Teaware, Cooking,

spirituality (Fisher style), and more.

Of the puerh articles, many of which appear to be ongoing columns,

there are blind tea tastings narrated by a panel, an expose' on the

Chang Tai 16 Mountain set, some pages about vintage puerh that appear

to be translated from one of Chan Kam Pong's books, a Q&A section, a

very interesting science article (that I think I originally saw on the

now defunct 858tea.com site), plenty of puerh porn (pictures), as well

as several ala carte articles by people in the business.

The magazine is polished, the photos are very good, however much of

the material is somewhat elementary, much of  it assumes no prior

knowledge whatsoever. I suppose this is to be expected in a first

issue, I just hope the series gets progressively more in depth as time

goes on. All in all the magazine is well worth a look,especially if

you don't read Chinese. It is rather expensive though, considering a

National Geographic magazine is half of it's price. I guess that's the

trade off for low advertising.

Copies will soon be available from:

http://tinyurl.com/yg758j (Hou De Asian Arts)

and

http://tinyurl.com/rx9l9 (Yunnan Sourcing)

This is as close to unbiased as I can get, just don't ask me about the

"Cha Dao" article.  ;-)