Greetings!

My name is Alexander, but my friends call me gaiwan 🦣

The purpose of this blog is to share the diverse manifestations of Chinese tea, as well as an educational base for an in-depth understanding of it.

I discovered the tea world in 2021, and began conducting ceremonies this year.

I was hooked by the phenomenon's limitless spectrum of flavors and aromas, where the final product is shaped by a myriad of variables. Among them: the location and altitude of the Camellia sinensis (tea tree), its age, cultivar, season, year and batch of harvest, as well as the choice of the part of the plant: leaf, bud or cuttings. Equally important is the processing of the raw material: every tiny detail, from the roasting temperature to the type of fermentation, forms the unique categories of Chinese tea, each of which would take more than a lifetime to study....