The campaigns
12 campaigns
Harvest pre-purchases, storage research, and auction-market methodology notes — each with its own paperwork. See the vintage auction record for the underlying market data, and the risk disclosure before you pledge.
Seasonal programme
Auction house methodology comparison
Side-by-side analysis of valuation, lotting, and provenance standards used by Christie’s Hong Kong, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Beijing Council, and Guangzhou houses for vintage Chinese tea. Updated whenever a house revises its methodology.
Runs Updated as methodology changes
Seasonal programme
Bulang aging curve — twenty-year documented study
A longitudinal study of one 2004 <em class="pinyin">Lǎo Bānzhāng</em> (老班章) <em class="pinyin">shēng pǔ'ěr</em> (生普洱) cake, tracked across four storage climates over twenty years. Not a forecast — a record of time's effect on material and market.
Runs Updated every Q4
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Dry vs. wet storage — documented pricing spread
A study in humidity — how the same 2005–2008 Yunnan cakes diverge in price depending on whether they rested in dry northern city basements or the traditional damp cellars of Guangdong.
Runs Updated annually
Seasonal programme
Hong Kong auction cycle 2026 — full-year summary
A cycle-by-cycle accounting of every major Hong Kong auction in 2026, with lot-level realised prices against estimates, top realisations, and year-on-year movements across Chinese tea categories.
Runs December 2026 release
Seasonal programme
Insurance and valuation framework
The dry, camphor-sweet scent of a 2012 <em class="pinyin">Yìwǔ</em> cake resting in its wrapper still has to be weighed against something — auction records, comparable sales, the cake's own storage history — before a replacement value can be assigned. This is how we approach that, and what we do and do not yet have in place.
Runs Updated as policy changes
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Member storage onboarding guide
A meticulous, step-by-step onboarding for those entering our aged Chinese tea storage network — from selecting your cellar to transferring provenance records, arranging insurance, and establishing an audit cadence.
Runs Updated as procedures change
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Provenance documentation standards
From garden to vault — every vintage cake in the tea.money network carries a provenance packet: chain-of-custody ledger, photographic trail, quarterly storage logs, and a wet-leaf evaluation.
Runs Updated as standards evolve
Seasonal programme
Storage cost vs. documented price appreciation
An annual, unvarnished look at what it actually costs to store fine tea — warehouse fees, climate control, insurance — measured against documented price changes across a fixed reference set. Not a prediction, not a promise. Just the numbers, released each March.
Runs 1–31 March 2026
Seasonal programme
2024 vintage tracker — annual report
A documented record of prices realised at the major Asian and European cake auctions in 2024 — public-record only, with no buy or sell recommendations attached.
Runs Annual, March release
Seasonal programme
2025 vintage tracker — annual report
Documented prices realised at the major Asian and European puerh cake auctions in 2025 — plus a five-year retrospective on the 2010-vintage Bulang category, with tasting notes from resident master Fang Ting. Reserve a window for early access and a private tasting of a 2010 Bulang cake.
Runs Annual, March release
Seasonal programme
2026 vintage tracker — annual report
Every auction season pours out a fresh stream of hammer prices, spread across houses that report in different currencies, units, and lot conventions. The 2026 tracker is our attempt to gather, verify, and normalise a season's worth of that data into one document — a work in progress, not a finished index. A small, free preview of the same underlying research already lives on /vintages.
Runs Annual, March release
Annual methodology note
Yiwu vintage pricing — methodology note
A transparent look at the factors shaping Yiwu vintage pu-erh valuations at auction — provenance chains, pressing-house premiums, and neifei verification, updated annually for collectors and researchers. Reference data, not a buy or sell signal.
Runs Updated annually