# Obtaining Tea Supplies Each chapter details information about Tea Tavern vendors and how they work towards tavern goals. # The Phoenix Collection #### Which goals align? Since the Tea Tavern's goal is to help people achieve a better, healthier life, what are the priorities that the organization's goal align with? \- \[x\] Does it taste good to people who enjoy high quality tea? \- Teas that age well are the specialty \- Fresher teas are hit or miss, but one can tell they are most are a higher quality. \- \[x\] Is the tea likely to be healthy? \- Likely, though little information is generally given to prove this. #### How goals are aligned David Lee Hoffman is the owner of [The Phoenix Collection](http://thephoenixcollection.com/), where we wholesale teas such the [1995 "Green Pu'erh"](https://tea-tavern.com/1995-green-pu-erh/) and [Aini Bamboo Shu](https://tea-tavern.com/aini-bamboo-shu-puerh/) (2014). He was one of, if not *the*, first Americans to go to and source tea from China. In the documentary [All in this Tea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_in_This_Tea), people can see the attention to quality through his telling of how tea smelled, how tea tasted, and what was used to grow the tea (ex. organic fertilization). He even cared about the lives of the farmers and their ability to sell tea without requiring a factory as the middle-man. Something that may have helped the growth of two other vendors: [West China Tea](https://westchinatea.com/) and [Grass People Tree](https://www.grasspeopletree.com/). # The Phoenix Collection (Contact Info) ### Contact Info - Addresses - The Phoenix Collection Post Office Box 287 Lagunitas, California 94938 USA - Phone numbers - TEL: 415 488.9017 FAX: 415 488 9015 - emails - Name: Jeannie - ### Obtaining Prices Their default prices are believed to be the same as wholesale prices. May be worth clarifying with them, one day. For current prices, go to [http://thephoenixcollection.com/order/tealist.pdf](http://thephoenixcollection.com/order/tealist.pdf) to see the current tea list. May want to check the month and year on the top of the PDF for currency. ### Placing an Order For wholesale orders, send the above email the product ID number and quantity of what we request. # West China Tea #### Which goals align? Since the Tea Tavern's goal is to help people achieve a better, healthier life, what are the priorities that the organization's goal align with? \- \[x\] Does it taste good to people who enjoy high quality tea? \- \[x\] Is the tea likely to be healthy? #### How goals are aligned? [West China Tea](https://westchinatea.com/)'s owner is the the [TeaHouseGhost](http://www.youtube.com/@TeaHouseGhost) (So-Han Fan). Having gone to China themselves, [West China Tea](https://westchinatea.com/) sources teas directly from farmers who care about organic, healthful farming of tea. They provide some of the most in-depth and informational educational content as a course and for free. They built a vibrant community of tea drinkers at their establishment in Austin, Texas, converting people who may have previously avoided tea into people who seek out quality tea. They supply the Tea Tavern with teas such as [Moonlight White tea bings](https://tea-tavern.com/moonlight-white-bing/), [Ancient Black Rain tea coins](https://tea-tavern.com/7g-ancient-tree-black-rain-tea-coin/), and [Black Phoenix](https://tea-tavern.com/black-phoenix/). # West China Tea (Contact Info) ### Current Contact Info: - addresses - *Learn new address, they were just moved from the freeway* - Phones - **512-887-8324** - emails - Wholesales - Name: Echo - - - General - - The company also has a Mighty Networks group. ### Obtaining Prices West China currently has a PDF that lists loose leaf tea prices, and use it to show prices per gram. Not all products are going to be loose leaf, despite them being in there, however. Some will only be available as bings, and after deciding the desired quantities, we will be told what products are bings. An example is purple white tea. They show as loose leaf, but only come in bings. Lastly, if we order 7 bings (1 tong), they will be lower than each ordered individually, but will likely need to be put on back-order from china. Ordering in this manner is, however, cheaper than ordering wholesale bings individually. By how much? Needs to be documented. Hopefully, we can one day work with them to separate their bing-only products. ### Making the Order Send the contact above an email, and work with them to get the order figured out. Once figured out, they will set up a custom purchase link on westchinatea.com to complete the order. Please use the "supplies@tea-tavern" email for this. Make sure you know what will come immediately, and what is on backorder (should be marked in the list of ordered products. Back ordered products take an estimated 4-6 weeks to arrive, as they need to get made, shipped to West China, then sent to us. ### Special Orders On occasion, West China gets special orders of new teas or specially made teas from their suppliers in China. The process for joining in this needs to be learned an documented. # Grass People Tree (GPT) #### Which goals align? Since the Tea Tavern's goal is to help people achieve a better, healthier life, what are the priorities that the organization's goal align with? \- \[x\] Does it taste good to people who enjoy high quality tea? \- \[x\] Is the tea likely to be healthy? #### How goals are aligned? The [Tea Tavern](https://tea-tavern.com/)'s keeper occasionally speaks with Rui, the owner of [Grass People Tree](https://www.grasspeopletree.com/) and found a genuine passion in her for tea as an art, as a medicine, and it's traditions. Based on her educational content and blog postings, the Tea Tavern finds that the ecosystem they grow tea from, the people they work with to craft their products, and the process in which they use to make their teas are perhaps honored more than the tea that they sell, itself. The teas that they sell are *all* from wild and ancient trees. The leaves are processed in a much more careful and special manner, as to prevent qualities that would make them bitter. As a result, people can be sure that the plants they use are healthy, that all the health benefiting substances in tea are at their strongest, and that there won't be any additional substances that can result in harming a person's health. This results in a tea that is unlike any other that the Tea Tavern finds in that the brews almost never becomes bitter... Even when accidentally leaving [Master's Green](https://tea-tavern.com/masters-green/) brewing in boiling water for a minute or two. (^^;)7 This proves that GPT tea is also difficult to brew in a way that would makes the tea's brew unpleasant to most people. Further, Rui takes care of her employees by helping the "sisters" who pick and pack tea. This is done though obtain funding to help the sisters progress their personal goals, such as learn English. Rui communicates directly with many of the wholesale vendors, visits many of their tea houses as she travels, and is one of the most welcoming and helpful people in the world's tea community. As a result, GPT is the partner supplying us with the teas found in the [Wild Tea Sampler](https://tea-tavern.com/wild-tea-sampler/). (^-^) # Grass People Tree (Contact info) [See here for additional information on GPT as a maker](https://bookstack.tea-tavern.com/books/tea-sources-makers/page/grass-people-tree-gpt) ### Contact Info - Addresses - China - Phone numbers - Unknown - emails - Name: Rui ('Ray') - rui@grasspeopletree.com ### Obtaining Prices This vendor defaults to a 40% discount on wholesale. ### Placing an Order [https://www.grasspeopletree.com/](https://www.grasspeopletree.com/) Go to the main website, add the order to the tea-tavern account's cart, send a picture of the cart to Rui in an email with the request. # Tea Curious #### Which goals align? Since the Tea Tavern's goal is to help people achieve a better, healthier life, what are the priorities that the organization's goal align with? \- \[x\] Does it taste good to people who enjoy high quality tea? \- \[x\] Is the tea likely to be healthy? #### How goals are aligned [Tea Curious](https://www.teacurious.com/) sources teas from primarily Taiwan and Napal, however they also have teas from other places like China. The organization was founded by Steven and Rie who went to various parts of the world to learn how to find and make quality tea. They have a passion for high quality tea, community, and a scientific degree of attention to brewing. [Tea Curious](https://www.teacurious.com/) teas have the most details recorded about their teas compared to all of the Tea Tavern's other vendors, including what degree of organic that the farm grew the tea in (wild, low intervention, organic certified, working on certification, etc..). The attention to detail also stretches into their water, as they are the organization that the [Tea Tavern wholesales tea water minerals from](https://tea-tavern.com/product/master-brewers-components/), and thus are the ones who made the [recipe](https://www.teacurious.com/water-recipe) that the tavern uses for tea water.. Thanks to the teachings of these water wizards, the Tea Tavern was able to move from "ok" tea to "the finest of teas". # Tea Curious (Contact Info) ### Contact Info - Addresses - Unknown - Phone numbers - Unknown - emails - Name: Rie - - Do not be surprised if they take a few days to a week to return contact. - Other - One can also use this form to contact them https://www.teacurious.com/contact-us ### Obtaining Prices Send them a question by whatever means you prefer, asking for the wholesale prices. Their prices do not change often, so we likely do not need to change it often. NEXT TIME WE GET ONE, ADD IT HERE AS AN ATTACHMENT. ### Placing an Order For wholesale orders, send the above email the name and quantity of what we request. ### Drop Shipping We drop ship products from Tea Curious, as well. The current agreement is that we earn 15% on every sale on our website. 1. We take the (paid) orders made to the tea tavern, 2. Provide Tea Curious with the customer data and orders, 3. We pay Tea Curious a discounted price on the bulk of our customer's orders. Reason for doing this: in places where water quality is not high, tea curious supplies has been the best resource for providing water that can actually make tea good. For some locations, there is little reason to need better water, such as the places listed below: - Seattle, Washington - New York - (Add more as learned about) # Mei Leaf Tea #### Which goals align? Since the Tea Tavern's goal is to help people achieve a better, healthier life, what are the priorities that the organization's goal align with? \- \[x\] Does it taste good to people who enjoy high quality tea? \- \[ \] Is the tea likely to be healthy? #### How goals are aligned if... ##### The Tea Tastes Good [Mei Leaf Tea](https://meileaf.com/), as a brand, has made itself stand out as the vendor of "pinnacle" tea, as it pertains to flavor. Numerous daily gongfu, Chinese tea drinkers strongly recommended that the Tea Tavern work with them as a wholesale vendor, and the reasoning makes sense. One only needs to browse the [Mei Leaf tea](https://meileaf.com/) YouTube videos to see how they are passionate and effective at teaching people about tea and finding only the finest tasting versions of those teas (to the owner's taste, of course). They have scouts go out to Chinese tea farms, funnel thousands of teas down to a select few hundred that they ship samples of to the Mei Leaf, which then go through taste testing with the owner to decide on a select few teas that they decide are the "pinnacle" of the particular type of tea. Mei Leaf Tea is actually a prime example of why the Tea Tavern likes to work with wholesalers. Yes, the price is higher for working with them, but our vendors go through significant efforts that are more immediately capable of supporting the goals of the Tea Tavern. This being said, the owner has mentioned these teas are cultivated from, are likely to have non-marketed traits, like being organic. Many of the teas they source are likely to be sold with or without any kind of evidence of things like organic farming and there is good reason to believe it. This being the case, however, means that when wholesaling from Mei Leaf, the focus is in the quality of the flavor above all else. # Meileaf Tea (Contact Info) ### Contact Info - Addresses - Phone numbers - emails ### Obtaining Prices ### Placing an Order ### Qualifications (How they fit our goals) # Mosscap Tea #### Which goals align? Since the Tea Tavern's goal is to help people achieve a better, healthier life, what are the priorities that the organization's goal align with? \- \[x\] Does it taste good to people who enjoy high quality tea? \- \[x\] Is the tea likely to be healthy? #### How goals are aligned [Mosscap](https://www.mosscaptea.com/) Tea is run by herbalists passionate about farming to the most naturally beneficial extent possible. They have helped the Tea Tavern in researching the organic certification, its pitfalls, and how to farm to a level of "organic" that the certification does not assure. Due to their depth of knowledge and skill in making tasteful herbal mixtures, the Tea Tavern works with them to wholesale blends of herbs that are mostly grown from small farms local to Texas. Teas from "Mosscap" is in the name of all the products that the Tea Tavern wholesales from them, such as [The Mosscap Hearth](https://tea-tavern.com/the-mosscap-hearth/) and [Rain of a Mosscap](https://tea-tavern.com/rain-of-a-mosscap/). # Moss Cap Tea (Contact Info) ### Contact Info - Addresses - They are in Austin, Texas - Phone numbers - (Telegram) +1 409 692 5283 - emails - Hello@mosscaptea.com - Website - MossCapTea.com ### Obtaining Prices View[ the site](https://www.mosscaptea.com/shop) for the original prices, and default to 50% off for wholesale/drop shipping. For a more specific price, ask them directly. ### Placing an Order Ask for the wholesale pricing document, determine the preferred quantities, order through email. # Sacred Blossom Farm #### Which goals align? Since the Tea Tavern's goal is to help people achieve a better, healthier life, what are the priorities that the organization's goal align with? \- \[x\] Does it taste good to people who enjoy high quality tea? \- \[x\] Is the tea likely to be healthy? #### How goals are aligned [Sacred Blossom Farm](https://www.sacredblossomfarm.com/) is a Wisconsin herb farm that advertises restorative and low-intervention (or "low-input") farming practices to grow herbs, as well as a degree of foraging for some wild grown herbs. Their focus is on selling the finest tasting herbs with the healthiest plants they can produce, to provide the healthiest and most medicinally effective herbal blends that they can. An example of the herbal blend that the Tea Tavern wholesales from them is Sacred Blossom Immunity. # Sacred Blossom Farms (Contact Info) ### Contact Info - Addresses - Phone numbers - emails ### Obtaining Prices ### Placing an Order ### Qualifications (How they fit our goals) # Premier's Foods & Beverages (Contact Info) [See this page for further details about them as a maker.](https://bookstack.tea-tavern.com/books/tea-sources-makers/page/premiers-foods-beverages) ### Contact Info - Addresses: - Head office: Gole Market (Still existent?) - 16/7 Doctor's Lane, Gole Market, New Delhi-110001 (India) - Branch Office: Birla Mandir (originally visited office) - Ram Singh Hall, Hindu Maha Sabha Bhawan Mandir Marg, Birla Mandir Bus Stop, New Delhi-110001 (India) - Phone numbers (Whatsapp required) - 9810976272 - emails - pfbindia1@gmail.com ### Obtaining Prices Text or email them asking about a particular product. Last we asked, they do not keep a list of options on hand. So if we want something different, we have to check what they have. Prices are reportedly inconsistent, so we will need to ask the current price every time they sell to us. ### Placing an Order Send a text or email requesting the particular product. Their minimum is likely to be in the 5kg range before any discount is provided for wholesale. In general, orders are expected to be paid through wise or a wire transfer. ### Qualifications (How they fit our goals) Organic certifications: - HACCP, - GMP, - IFS (International Food Standard) - Certified packers of Organic teas for India (India Organic), - European Union (EU 2092/91), - USA (USDA), - Japan (JAS) The tavern keeper was also given the impression that they do more than this, too, but "what" needs to be documented. Please note: The Tavern Keeper was given the impression that there might be inaccuracies on the original flier. The written information should be correct, the address, and email should be correct, but other items should be verified. For their "cleaning" process, see the attached images. They are descriptions of the steps in their process. # U.P. Arts & Crafts Development Centre (Possible Teawares) (Contact Info) Manufacturer & Exporters of Handmade Marble Inlaid Articles & Handicrafts ### Contact Info - Addresses - Opp.Jaypee Palace Hotel, Fatehabad Road, Agra-282001 (India) - Phone numbers - +91 70600 66836 (Whatsapp) - emails - upartsncrafts@gmail.com ### Obtaining Prices Email or text them with what you'd like to order, and they will provide the price. ### Placing an Order Use email or text ### Qualifications (How they fit our goals) Not plant matter. Thus, just going based on price and custom creatability. Better qualifications need to be determined.