Producer

Olivier Schneider

Pu er tea specialist

- New Caledonia
Yunnan

Olivier Schneider

Olivier Schneider has lived between China, Thailand and Taiwan for over 15 years. He is THE French Pu er specialist.

His mission, along with the producers he accompanies, is to promote better knowledge, dissemination and protection of this tea culture, whose richness is only just beginning to be discovered in the West.

Together with its partners, it is carrying out various research programs on the origins and present of this tea, covering fields as varied as understanding and identifying the tea's terroirs of origin, the study of the tea itself and the development of the tea industry.origin of this tea, the study of cultivars (grape varieties) and old and new species that grow in the various tea mountains, the study of the past and new methods that surround the production of tea, and the study of the tea industry.methods used in the production and shaping of these teas, including the mapping of production areas, meeting with various pu er field personalities, or studying the culture of the minority ethnic groups who planted these trees over 1000 years ago in the heart of the Yunnan forests.

Since 2012, he has been working with the village producers who own the orchards of old tea bushes, on the timing and finesse of the plucking. He has also collaborated on tea manufacturing by Madame O Yang of Han origin, who has lived in this small village with her family for a long time and has trained herself to tea processing aﬁn order to help her neighbors produce quality tea, and now processes the leaves of dozens of village families on her farm.