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About The Essence of Tea
The Essence of Tea (@theessenceoftea) is an eCommerce/DTC creator on Instagram, also filed under Personal Goods & General Merchandise Stores. The account has 7,694 followers and 542 published posts. Recent posts average 154 likes and 5 comments, an engagement rate of 2%.
The Essence of Tea belongs to the nano tier, the band usually drawn between 1,000 and 10,000 followers. The Essence of Tea follows 628 accounts, so the audience is roughly 12 times the size of the list followed. The Essence of Tea is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files The Essence of Tea under eCommerce/DTC, with Personal Goods & General Merchandise Stores as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for The Essence of Tea runs to 17 words across 3 lines. The bio tags #essenceoftea and #essenceofteaclub. The latest activity Flinque has on record for The Essence of Tea dates from September 2025.
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542 Posts
Of the 10 most recent posts shown for The Essence of Tea, 8 are carousels and 2 are single images. That mix leans toward carousels. The Essence of Tea has built a substantial archive of 542 posts. Against the audience, that is roughly 14 followers for each post published. The Essence of Tea also keeps 32 story highlights on the profile. All 10 carry captions, averaging 142 words each. The captions are written mainly in English. Words that recur across them include these, trees, forest, fresh and gushu. The captions tag #gushu, #yiwu, #guafengzhai, #puerhtea and #yixing.
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#yixing #zisha #duanni #yixingclay #yixingteapot
These were made originally at the same size, in pure DiCaoQing and Xiao Mei Yao Zhuni clays. We hadn't expected such a difference in size after firing though - the zhuni shrunk to 120ml while the dicaoqing pot is 150ml. We had expected zhuni to shrink a bit, but hadn't quite expected it to be so much.
We're really happy with how they've both turned out - the strong and functional shape with quick pour makes them a joy to use for tea.
#yixing #dicaoqing #zhuni #xiaomeiyao #gongfucha
It's always an exhausting time, but so much fun too!
Our new cakes are finally online. We decided to focus on a few high end Yiwu & Guafengzhai areas this year, along with a smattering of Bulang and some daily drinkers from further north. We hope you enjoy them.
#yiwu #gushu #guafengzhai #puerhtea #puerh
Our cakes are just finishing being pressed at the moment and we should be ready to release all our spring productions in a few days focussing on making some small quantity, high end productions to highlight the beauty of Yiwu’s forest environment and micro-region ancient trees
#yiwu #gaogan #yaoqu #guafengzhai #chawangshu
Our spring teas are pressed and the wrappers will be sent down to the pressing factory on Monday to begin wrapping the cakes and putting them into tongs. Hopefully the fresh cakes will be ready to put on the website in another week or two.
#puerhtea #puerh #handmadewrappers #handmadetea #gushu
We work on a long term basis with this family, renting a tea garden together buying all their tea, only picking spring tea and using leaves from the forest to fertilise. No agrochemicals are used at all and the teas are made as simply as possible to allow the natural beauty to come through. Through this type of cooperation we can provide a stable income for the family each year and also give them confidence to make tea according to our requirements. It works well for both parties.
In previous years we’ve been making mostly hongcha and raw puerh from here. This year we decided to make a test batch of white tea too.
Since it’s quite a drive from Xishuangbanna where we source most of our other teas, we didn’t make it to here until today. The unfertilised trees are sprouting later than the other trees around the village and they’re still picking the first flush.
The fresh teas are tasting lovely.
These kinds of trees are still relatively cheap in further north regions. If in Xishuangbanna they’d cost a fortune and people would be queuing up for them. Luckily for us, this village is pretty much unknown for tea buyers and the tea is still cheap and a great choice for those looking for Gushu tea without a sky high price tag.
… and some piglets to make your day better!
#wuliang #gushu #selectedtrees #puerhtea
There aren’t a lot of ancient trees here, it’s mostly known for the small trees that have been planted in the forest around 2007-2010. These are plentiful, and the overwhelming majority of the tea that’s possible for most people to be able to try from here. The ancient trees are nice though and the environment is immaculate - deep in the forest.
We selected a few of the bigger ancient trees in the garden and collected the fresh leaves to fry back in the village. A lot of work, just a little tea, but nice to include this in our selection this Spring.
#heishuiliangzi #guafengzhai #gushu #selectedtrees #ancienttreetea
Since I was staying in Guafengzhai for an extended period this spring, I wanted to visit all the gardens and deepen my understanding of the forest gardens surrounding Guafengzhai.
This was the most arduous of all the tea gardens I’ve visited in the past 17 years that we’ve been making puerh. It’s a tough hour long motorbike ride along muddy and tight paths cut into the jungle often with steep drops to the side. Without the slightest hyperbole, I can say that more than a few times on the journey I had the thought that my life could very easily end that day. When the path gets too tight for even a motorbike, there’s another half hour trek through the jungle before coming on a beautiful flat area with a small river (Leng Shui He means Cold Water Stream) running through it. Although no-one knows for sure, it’s thought that there were maybe a couple of families living here at some point in the distant past and that they planted the tea garden in the forest. It’s easy to see why people would want to live there - a good source of fresh and pure water with the flat area of land nestled amongst surrounding hills and lush forest - it would make a lovely place to live.
The ancient tea garden itself is small, but the ancient trees are lovely - growing to huge sizes and flushing well in this fertile forest environment. In more recent years villagers from Guafenzhai have planted smaller trees in the surrounding forest, but it’s the ancient trees here that make the tea from here so special.
#guafengzhai #lengshuihe #ancienttreetea #guoyoulin #yiwu
The biggest trees in the gardens are sprouting these days and we thought it would be good to visit the garden and carry some fresh leaves down the mountain. ChaPing has several gardens, this one belongs to a family we’ve known for about a decade now, but since we’d been mostly focusing on Chawangshu each year, we’d never visited or bought any of their tea.
After visiting their garden I have a whole new appreciation for this area - it’s really beautiful! Unspoilt, in the middle of the protected forest - a few km hike up breathtaking mountain stream, crossing over again and again on bamboo poles and logs across the river.
The tea garden itself is lovely - full of huge trees with almost no small trees. The small trees had already sprouted a week or so ago, and it was just the bigger ones that had held out until now.
We sat for a while, explored a bit and brought the fresh leaves down the mountain to process ouselves. Making good tea isn’t easy, but the effort makes it all the more worthwhile.
#guafengchai #chaping #yiwu #gushu #teamountains
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The Essence of Tea's engagement rate on Instagram is 2%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 50 followers. An average post collects 154 likes and 5 comments, close to 31 likes for each comment.
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Who is The Essence of Tea?
The Essence of Tea (@theessenceoftea) is an eCommerce/DTC creator on Instagram, also filed under Personal Goods & General Merchandise Stores. The Essence of Tea is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for The Essence of Tea runs to 17 words across 3 lines.
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The Essence of Tea has 7,694 followers on Instagram (7.7K). The Essence of Tea follows 628 accounts, so the audience is roughly 12 times the size of the list followed. The Essence of Tea has built a substantial archive of 542 posts.
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The Essence of Tea's engagement rate on Instagram is 2%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 50 followers. An average post collects 154 likes and 5 comments, close to 31 likes for each comment.
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Flinque files The Essence of Tea under eCommerce/DTC, with Personal Goods & General Merchandise Stores as a secondary category. Of the 10 most recent posts shown for The Essence of Tea, 8 are carousels and 2 are single images. The 10 recent Instagram captions Flinque holds for The Essence of Tea repeatedly use the words these, trees, forest, fresh and gushu. The Essence of Tea's captions carry hashtags such as #gushu, #yiwu and #guafengzhai. The Essence of Tea writes those captions mainly in English. The bio tags #essenceoftea and #essenceofteaclub. The Essence of Tea keeps 32 story highlights, which open with a free Flinque account.
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