We are very pleased to return to the primaeval forests of Yunnan together with Pulu°, a brand rooted in ancient forest landscapes. Using tea as a thread, we connect community, culture, and vessels, seeking to understand how tea is practiced, shaped, and remembered across different cultural and lived systems over time.
In Yunnan, tea has never been an isolated leaf. It grows within ancient forests and enters the human body; it belongs to everyday drinking, and also to minority rituals and the hearth. Tea continually moves through relationships between mountains, people, and land.
This time, we take Yunnan Pu’er tea as our starting point to open a dialogue around forest landscapes, ethnic traditions, and contemporary vessels. Tea is not merely “brewed” — it is held, poured, and observed. Vessels, in turn, are not neutral containers, but mediators between humans and nature.
This gathering will focus on original-leaf teas from Yunnan’s primaeval forests, including raw Pu’er and ancient-tree black tea. Through vessels and storytelling, we explore how tea transforms from an everyday substance into a cultural structure within collective memory, and how vessels carry aroma, temperature, and the continuously evolving relationship between people and land.
This is not only a tea tasting, but a shared practice of returning to the forest, and to relationships.
Price: £45
Date and time: 31st January 11:30-13:00pm
Address: Yushu Tea Gallery, 4-5 Denman Place, London, W1D 7AH
About the Tea
These teas come from Pulu°, and are personally crafted by Yanzhou. Yanzhou is from the Limi community (俐侎族), a subgroup of the Yi ethnic (彝族) group. In Limi culture, ancient tea trees are regarded as totems. The ritual of worshipping ancient tea trees is a sacred tradition and one of the most important beliefs within the community. Every year, on the fifteenth day of the third lunar month, the Limi people hold a ceremonial offering to the ancient tea trees. Prayers are made beneath the trees, entrusting the peace and destiny of the coming year to them.
Raw Pu’er (生普)
Harvested from ancient tea trees in the high-altitude primeval forests of Yunnan, hand-picked and initially processed by Yanzhou. The liquor is clear and structured, with a direct entry, carrying aromas of forest soil and wild vegetation. As it is re-infused, its layers gradually unfold, revealing the vitality and tension characteristic of raw Pu’er.
Wild Ancient Tree Black Tea（野生古树红）
Also sourced from Yunnan’s primeval forest tea region. Through time and full transformation, the leaves are gently reshaped, resulting in a rounder, softer liquor with natural sweetness and warmth. It sits close to the body and everyday life, expressing a forest that has been settled by time. We are very pleased to share these teas from Pulu° through Yushu Tea Gallery, allowing the atmosphere of Yunnan’s primeval forests, the memory of its communities, and handcrafted practices to be sensed and understood in London.
We are very pleased to return to the primaeval forests of Yunnan together with Pulu°, a brand rooted in ancient forest landscapes. Using tea as a thread, we connect community, culture, and vessels, seeking to understand how tea is practiced, shaped, and remembered across different cultural and lived systems over time.
In Yunnan, tea has never been an isolated leaf. It grows within ancient forests and enters the human body; it belongs to everyday drinking, and also to minority rituals and the hearth. Tea continually moves through relationships between mountains, people, and land.
This time, we take Yunnan Pu’er tea as our starting point to open a dialogue around forest landscapes, ethnic traditions, and contemporary vessels. Tea is not merely “brewed” — it is held, poured, and observed. Vessels, in turn, are not neutral containers, but mediators between humans and nature.
This gathering will focus on original-leaf teas from Yunnan’s primaeval forests, including raw Pu’er and ancient-tree black tea. Through vessels and storytelling, we explore how tea transforms from an everyday substance into a cultural structure within collective memory, and how vessels carry aroma, temperature, and the continuously evolving relationship between people and land.
This is not only a tea tasting, but a shared practice of returning to the forest, and to relationships.
Price: £45
Date and time: 31st January 11:30-13:00pm
Address: Yushu Tea Gallery, 4-5 Denman Place, London, W1D 7AH
About the Tea
These teas come from Pulu°, and are personally crafted by Yanzhou. Yanzhou is from the Limi community (俐侎族), a subgroup of the Yi ethnic (彝族) group. In Limi culture, ancient tea trees are regarded as totems. The ritual of worshipping ancient tea trees is a sacred tradition and one of the most important beliefs within the community. Every year, on the fifteenth day of the third lunar month, the Limi people hold a ceremonial offering to the ancient tea trees. Prayers are made beneath the trees, entrusting the peace and destiny of the coming year to them.
Raw Pu’er (生普)
Harvested from ancient tea trees in the high-altitude primeval forests of Yunnan, hand-picked and initially processed by Yanzhou. The liquor is clear and structured, with a direct entry, carrying aromas of forest soil and wild vegetation. As it is re-infused, its layers gradually unfold, revealing the vitality and tension characteristic of raw Pu’er.
Wild Ancient Tree Black Tea（野生古树红）
Also sourced from Yunnan’s primeval forest tea region. Through time and full transformation, the leaves are gently reshaped, resulting in a rounder, softer liquor with natural sweetness and warmth. It sits close to the body and everyday life, expressing a forest that has been settled by time. We are very pleased to share these teas from Pulu° through Yushu Tea Gallery, allowing the atmosphere of Yunnan’s primeval forests, the memory of its communities, and handcrafted practices to be sensed and understood in London.
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