Pick up a pu-erh tea cake for the first time and it is hard to know what you are holding. It is solid. It is heavy. It looks more like a disc of compressed earth than something you would put in a teapot. And yet inside that...

If you have just discovered pu-erh tea and found yourself staring at the words "sheng" and "shou" wondering what on earth the difference is - you are in exactly the right place. It is, without question, the number one question new pu-erh drinkers ask. And...

There is one tea in the world that gets better with age - not worse, not stale, not flat - genuinely, measurably better. That tea is pu-erh.    It's the only tea in the world that works like wine, not like other teas, and once you understand...