About Chama Cellar

What does Chama Cellar sell?

Pressed pu'er tea from Yunnan: ripe (shou) and raw (sheng) cakes and bricks, and sample sets for trying a tea before buying a whole cake.

Every tea is listed with its mountain or county of origin, its harvest year and the factory that made it.

Do you make the tea yourselves?

No. Chama Cellar is a reseller. We do not grow or press tea. We choose teas from producers in Yunnan and ship them from Yunnan, at first through a partner warehouse there.

We would rather say that plainly than describe ourselves as a tea farm or a factory.

Is the shop open?

Not yet. The guides are free to read now, wholesale buyers can apply for an account, and you can leave your email to hear when teas arrive. Prices, shipping costs and return terms will be published before the first order is taken.

What will you not find on this site?

Health claims. Pu'er is a drink, and we do not say it treats, cures or prevents anything.

Invented reviews, sales figures or certificates. If a tea has a document behind it, we show the document; if it does not, we do not mention one.

Photographs passed off as the product. The pictures in our guides are AI-generated illustrations and are there to explain a step. Product pages will use photographs of the actual tea.

Where does the name come from?

Chama (茶马) means "tea and horse". For centuries, caravans carried pressed Yunnan tea along the routes now called the Tea Horse Road to Tibet and beyond. Tea was pressed into cakes and bricks so that it could survive that journey, which is the shape pu'er still has today.

How can you reach us?

Use the contact form. We reply by email.