Eastern Leaves
Forest keepers and Tea artisans in Yunnan since 2014
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Yixing: our story – Journal
Yixing: our story – Journal
In the following lines, we tell the story of the artisans who produce all the Yixing teapots you find on our website, in our tea room, and in our Yunnan studio. We have spoken about them many times, and many of you have met them personally during our travels. Here, we explain their identities, history, and way of worki
Tea Tours: visit the tea forest and more
Tea Tours: visit the tea forest and more
Visit our tea forest plantation in Yunnan, where we farm, harvest and produce our pu'er tea, white tea and red tea. We are in Xishuangbanna, on Nannuo and Lunan mountain, we organise trips around Yunnan and on-site in depth courses on tea.
Tea from our forests
Tea from our forests
Yueguangbai white tea, dianhong red tea and pu'er sheng pu farmed, harvest and processed by Eastern Leaves in Nannuo and Lunan mountain.
Our Tea Forest
Our Tea Forest
We produce pu’er, red and white teas: our tea is fully organic, and we interfere as little as possible with the growth of our trees. This is the reason we call ourselves wild forest keepers rather than farmers.
Tea Culture
Tea Club: a focus on terroir
Tea Club: a focus on terroir
We personally visit and select the most interesting pu'er tea from small local farmers like us to discover rare teas from Yunnan mountains and villages. We ship the teas 4 times a year to your home.
Tea Academy: courses on chinese tea
Tea Academy: courses on chinese tea
Learning about Chinese Teas: Basic and Intermediate Course With Chinese Government Certificate. Tea culture of Gongfucha, tea history, tea places, tea production, tea tasting. Working with tea.
The Chinese Tea Culture Foundation
The Chinese Tea Culture Foundation
By Vivian Zhang, August 2025 When I first started with tea, I was a curious young girl who had just left her family, searching for new places on land and a new identity for my soul. After years of courses, wild tastings, travels, and experimentation, I realised what I had been chasing — what was already there, in the
Tea Community chat: request to enter the private groups
Tea Community chat: request to enter the private groups
Selected Teaware
Yixing Teapots
Yixing Teapots
The most precious clay, hand-made and certified by our trusted artisans. Original Yixing teapots.
Dai Teaware, handcrafted in Yunnan
Dai Teaware, handcrafted in Yunnan
Precious hand-made ceramics by the artist and master Qiu Laoshi. Each piece is unique, crafted following the centuries-old Dai minority expertise in Yunnan, China, and using clay from the most famous mountains for tea production: Bulang, Yiwu, and Mengsong.
Natural Incense
Natural Incense
Our incense are based on a deep understanding of natural materials, following ancient Chinese recipes. Precious agarwood, herbs, flowers and fruits are shaped by time, skill, and knowledge, resulting in fragrances that are grounded, subtle, and enduring.Back to Tea & Clay
EU base : our Tearoom in Milan for Gongfucha tastings
EU base : our Tearoom in Milan for Gongfucha tastings
Teashop with a high quality selection of chinese tea from sustainable production in Yunnan and tea farmers of Fujian tea, Zhejiang tea, Anhui tea, Sichuan tea, Guangdong tea. Tea tasting served in Gongfucha in Milan.
Asian e-shop: tea, teaware and incense shipped from Yunnan
Asian e-shop: tea, teaware and incense shipped from Yunnan
The tea we farm and produce in our tea-forest in Yunnan, both in loose-leaf and pressed cake bricks. We offer a selection of green tea, white tea, wulong, pu'erh tea, wuyishan, dancong teas, dark teas, black teas from the best Chines farmers, in addition to unique Dai teaware and Yixing.
Get in touch
Get in touch
Wild Mountain Nannuo and Pasha Mountains, Xishuangbanna, southwest Yunnan, China. Open all-year long upon request for guided visits. Check our group Tea Tours or email us to customise your personal visit. eastern.leaves easternleavesfineteas Urban Showroom Our European Tearoom, to share our leaves and flavours with
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