Seven Cups

We are proud to announce that we have produced two puer cakes, one sheng (green or raw puer) cake, and one shu (black or cooked puer) cake. Although these cakes were many years in the making, which included a lot of study, traveling, and tasting, they were finished in winter of 2008 and we have r...

All of our new 2009 teas are available online!  We have new Wu Yi Rock Oolongs, An Xi Oolongs, Scented Jasmine teas, our robust black teas, more white teas, and the rest of our green teas.  We have been hard at work to get them available to you by the weekend, so enjoy taking a look around! :) ...

This is a ruling I’m glad to see. We have been on-line for 7 years, and we have seen a lot of things change. A lot of the changes have been great, but I haven’t seen an explosion in integrity. I have seen some awful things, like the websites that have been selling cheap oolong tea for...

We proud to say that we have one the ‘Best of Tucson’ award for the 5th year running in both Best Tea Service and Best Bulk Tea Selection. The awards are voted on by the readers of Tucson Weekly, which most of us read for free every Thursday to figure out what we’ll be doing on ...

At 3:06 am a big rock slammed the front window of the Seven Cups teahouse in Tucson setting up a classic smash and grab robbery. The thieves jumped through the broken window and grabbed some aged puer tea cakes, a storage container of Silver Needle white tea, and our iMac that serves as our point...

It seems like a long time since I have written anything for the blog. We have been very busy finishing our ordering for this years teas. Summer is ending even though the signs for that are different here in Tucson than places that actually have seasons. One of the ways we know is that school star...

Check out Glen McElhose’s video ‘Random Episode in China’ with Kevin Rose and Tim Ferriss from our puer tea tour. (This video contains adult content) Random Episode in China from Glenn McElhose on Vimeo.

Here is a recent story published by Time.Com about puer. It is coming on the heals of Hong Kong’s first tea expo, and of course puer was the hot topic there. I had been invited my the mayor of Puer City (Simao) but I couldn’t summon up the energy to make a quick trip to HK, even with ...

Welcome to our tea and tea culture video podcast with  Zhuping Hodge, tea master and owner of Seven Cups. This year we launched three very successful tea tours to China. Many hours of video were taken and we want to share them with you. In this episode Zhuping hikes up the mountain to teach us mo...

I got an email from a tea song writers Elizabeth Hill and David Hill that have written a couple of tea songs that entertained here at Seven Cups. Here they are on YouTube. Enjoy Austin