Verdant Tea

This lovely personal brew mug from Min Xin Tang features crystal-clear tempered glass to show off the color of your tea and the leaves as they swirl and unfold. The generous brew basket is nearly the size of the mug itself, giving the leaves all the room they need to infuse. The wood handle and matching wooden lid provide a perfect contrast to the golden leaf motif and glass. The lid is lined with stainless steel to act as a saucer for your brew basket between infusions.

This lovely personal brew mug from Min Xin Tang features crystal-clear tempered glass to show off the color of your tea and the leaves as they swirl and unfold. The generous brew basket is nearly the size of the mug itself, giving the leaves all the room they need to infuse. The wood handle and matching wooden lid provide a perfect contrast to the golden gingko leaf motif and glass. The lid is lined with stainless steel to act as a saucer for your brew basket between infusions.

This tempered glass pitcher is a versatile tool for brewing tea. It can be used to pour steeped tea from a teapot or gaiwan for each tea without dripping. It is also used to ensure that each guest gets tea steeped for the same amount of time regardless of whether you pour for them first or last. The glass pitcher is also a perfect tool for brewing green teas as it holds the right temperature for more delicate brews and shows off the tremendous beauty and color of the leaves as you steep your tea

This affordable basic gaiwan is a high-fired non reactive porcelain great for everyday use. The size is perfect for brewing 5g of leaf but still getting a strong gongfu infusion. The shape and arc of the lid make it extremely easy to pour and use.

This bright clean white De Hua porcelain teacup has thin straight sides to focus the aroma of tea and encourage aeration while sipping. The gentle curved base and the generous foot are elegant finishing touches. Neutral white makes for a perfect professional tea evaluation and tasting without distraction.

This handy little tool opens a whole new world in tea brewing. A simple metal strainer is traditionally used in gongfu tea ceremony to catch leaves from your gaiwan or yixing clay teapot while pouring into a pitcher. It can also be used to catch leaves when you steep more improvisationally, allowing you to use two tempered glasses or even mugs for brewing tea.

This tea set is everything you need to brew fine tea at home, or to kickstart friends and family in gongfu tea brewing. This essentials collection includes a white porcelain gaiwan that is fully non-reactive for true clean flavor and aroma. The cups are high fired porcelain from Qing Yuan Peng Hua studio in Dehua. The tempered glass pitcher and stainless steel strainer make it easy to brew for a group.

This thin lustrous elegant gaiwan from De Hua combines warm gold and a subtle blue-green hue porcelain for a beautiful contrast. The saucer has a circular keyhole opening that fits the bottom of the gaiwan perfectly. This high-fired porcelain is non-reactive and perfect for brewing true flavor and aroma when tasting and evaluating fine teas.

This tall, elegant pitcher is made from lustrous De Hua high-fired porcelain. The highly vitrified porcelain is non-reactive, presenting a clean focused aroma in your teas. The gold gilding is a beautiful contrast to the subtle blue-green hue in the porcelain.

This elegant De Hua porcelain cup is thin and lustrous with a subtle blue green hue to the white porcelain. The gold gilded edge provides an elegant finish ready for the finest teas. The gentle curve of this tea cup keeps tea warm longer, while the thin edge helps aerate while sipping to appreciate the aroma.

This thin lustrous elegant strainer from De Hua combines warm gold and a subtle blue-green hue porcelain for a beautiful contrast. The fine mesh strainer can filter very small tea leaves without getting clogged.

Our friends at the Peng Yuan Qing Hua studio in Dehua have produced this stunning set of gilded porcelain tea ware with a beautiful blue green tint to the porcelain, highlighted by bands of gold. This elegant collection includes everything you need to brew fine tea- a gaiwan, two cups, a strainer and a pitcher. The whole set is crafted from highly vitrified non-reactive porcelain to give your teas a clear, focused and true aroma and flavor.

This unique De Hua porcelain has a subtle blue-green undertone brought out by a gilded golden edge, creating a lustrous contrast for an elegant series from the Peng Yuan studio. This high-fired porcelain reflects the true aroma of your tea. The gilded porcelain is paired with a tempered glass pitcher to show off the color of your brewed tea, all set on the stunning Xiangfu Storm Grey Stone Top Tea Board, a draining full gongfu set up for serious tasting.

This chahe is a specialized presentation plate to measure out your tea leaves, show them around, smell them and easily pour them into a teapot or gaiwan. The bright white porcelain is a great neutral background to really let your tea leaves shine.

This clever bamboo tea box from Xiangfu is the perfect tray to break up a pu’er cake before brewing with its open cut corner for pouring leaves directly into a teapot or gaiwan. When you are done with your favorite pu’er, instead of having to put it away on a shelf and risk tearing the wrapper, you can leave it it in this box, since the lid slides into place and locks magnetically to protect your best teas.

Our tea-growing partners like to describe tea as tian di ren, a collaboration between earth, sky and people. These coasters are an evocative reflection on this collaboration - with resin capturing the feeling of “sky,” of water and air, the wood burls as nature and earth, and the joining of the two, the act of craft by the workshop, the people. Symbolism aside, these are a stunning and beautiful coaster solution, ready to carve out a special space on your table for the finest teas. Each coaster is unique.

This stunning and truly unique tea boat from Xiangfu workshop is made from a combination of aromatic yew wood and resin. Beautiful pieces of yew are selected for their unique wood grains and shapes, and allowed to truly stand out against the swirled resin. This hand-building process means every piece is unlike any other. When the fragrant board is used for tea, the heat and moisture bring out deep forestry aromatics in the wood, bringing nature to your daily tea.

The tea board is the foundation of gongfu tea, and this is solid foundation indeed, formed from a beautiful piece of hewn stone. The choice of material is a critical piece of the overall balance of a gongfu set up, and stone brings in a sense of groundedness, while reflecting on the rocky textural complexity of fine tea. The stormy grey of this board turns dark and lustrous as hot water is poured over it, and the water flows down the channel along the edges to drain to maintain a clean modern look. For modern gongfu ceremony, cap the drain with the included cap and the board works as a stunning tea boat.

Xiangfu’s Zheng series is named after the stringed instrument since the carved grooves mimc the zheng’s strings. Groves running to a drain channel allow this personal-sized tea board to draw water away from your teapot, keeping it even and well-seasoned. The compact footprint is perfect for desk-side modern gongfu.

This unique teapot from Ming Xin Tang comes with two inserts, a generously-large brew basket to give your leaves plenty of room to infuse as you watch them unfurl, and a bonus steam-percolator glass insert designed to continuously steam your tea leaves and drip down over low heat. The wide spout makes for a fast clean pour, and the ample capacity means you can serve fine tea for a big group.

This large modern-style teapot from Ming Xin Tang features a unique design with two different glass inserts: a generously-large brew basket to give your leaves plenty of room to infuse as you watch them unfurl, and a bonus steam-percolator glass insert designed to continuously steam your tea leaves and drip down over low heat. The wood handle makes for an elegant pour as you show off your finest teas.

This lovely personal brew mug from Min Xin Tang features crystal-clear tempered glass to show off the color of your tea and the leaves as they swirl and unfold. The generous brew basket is nearly the size of the mug itself, giving the leaves all the room they need to infuse. The wood handle and matching wooden lid provide a perfect contrast to the golden gingko leaf motif and glass. The lid is lined with stainless steel to act as a saucer for your brew basket between infusions.

This lovely personal brew mug from Min Xin Tang features crystal-clear tempered glass to show off the color of your tea and the leaves as they swirl and unfold. The generous brew basket is nearly the size of the mug itself, giving the leaves all the room they need to infuse. The wood handle and matching wooden lid provide a perfect contrast to the golden leaf motif and glass. The lid is lined with stainless steel to act as a saucer for your brew basket between infusions.

This masterful pitcher from Min Xin Tang takes meticulous craft to capture a perfectly clear mountain in glass. The effect of the mountain is stunning when the pitcher is filled with tea and lit by the sun as it catches the angles and shines like dawn breaking over a real mountain. The wood handle is a pleasure to hold, creating a gorgeous offset to the crystalline tempered glass.

This striking glass pitcher ripples like glacial ice in the sun, amplifying light and showing off the color of your tea as you pour. With glass, you can see the leaves unfold in the pitcher for traditional green tea brewing and connect with the craft of the people behind the tea before you take your first sip. Tempered for brewing with boiling water and elegantly gilded, this is a stunning addition to any gongfu setup.