Why a pu-erh marketplace
For too long, pu-erh has been locked behind opaque supply chains, inflated markups, and fragmented information. Shop.puerh.app exists to change that. We bring together a network of independent vendors — many of them direct factory partners in Yunnan — and present their teas through a unified pricing engine that works for everyone: the curious sampler, the daily drinker, the wholesale buyer, and the investor studying vintage curves.
The marketplace is designed around pu-erh’s unique character. Every listing includes authentic origin data, storage history, and factory lineage. Pricing isn’t a guessing game: you’ll see transparent tiers for retail, wholesale, and sample amounts, so you can compare cost-per-gram across vintages and producers. Our live price feed on the exchange turns raw market data into a clear visual of how a tea’s value evolves over time.
We are not a faceless aggregator. Each vendor profile carries a story — who they are, why they source from a particular mountain or factory, what their storage philosophy is. And because we’re part of the Teamotea constellation, the marketplace is tethered to puerh.app’s deep encyclopedia, thetea.app’s multi-origin tea knowledge, and tea.school’s educational resources. That means every purchase decision can be informed by the most rigorous tea content ecosystem on the web.
Our operations team, led by COO Max Mihal, manages logistics from Yunnan to your door, dealing with customs, storage conditions, and bulk-order coordination. Wholesale buyers can place custom orders directly through the platform, specifying vintage range, quantity, and pressing style, and receive quotes within days — not weeks. For the true pu-erh collector, the exchange opens a window onto historical pricing trends, helping you assess whether a 2007 Dayi 7542 is fairly valued today.
Ultimately, we believe pu-erh should be traded with the same seriousness and transparency as fine wine. That’s the standard we’ve set for ourselves, and it’s what you’ll find on every page of shop.puerh.app.
From encyclopedia to exchange
Teamotea’s constellation began with a single conviction: that tea deserves a knowledge infrastructure as robust as its taste. The pu-erh encyclopedia at puerh.app grew into the most comprehensive English-language resource on the subject, mapping factories, vintages, recipes, and storage practices. But knowledge alone wasn’t enough. The community needed a trustworthy place to buy, sell, and track pu-erh — so shop.puerh.app was born, connecting the intellectual depth of the encyclopedia with a living marketplace that respects the tea and its traditions.
Sourcing that puts provenance first
The vendors on shop.puerh.app are not drop-shippers. Each has been vetted by our team, often through on-the-ground relationships in Yunnan, Guangdong, and beyond. Business Development Director Oleg Kiktenko and co-founder Dmitry Sologubov spent years cultivating ties with family-run workshops and state-owned factories, ensuring that every cake on the platform comes with a documented chain of custody. Whether you’re ordering a 25-gram sample of Mí Lán Xiāng or a kilogram of aged shēng for your shop, you’ll find complete transparency on origin, storage, and pressing.
A constellation, not a silo
Shop.puerh.app doesn’t exist in isolation. It’s one node in the Teamotea constellation — a network of thirty-six tea-related brands built to serve every angle of the tea journey. When you explore a tea on our marketplace, you can leap directly into its encyclopedia entry on puerh.app, study related tasting courses on tea.school, or discover the trade routes that brought it here on tea.travel. This interconnectedness is by design: we believe informed buyers make better choices, and that a marketplace flourishes when it’s woven into a fabric of trusted content.
Transparency as a business model
We publish a live price feed because we believe the market deserves visibility. Our tiered pricing — sample, retail, wholesale — hides nothing. Custom orders are quoted with cost breakdowns. Vendor profiles are real people with real stories, not anonymous storefronts. This radical openness is not a marketing tactic; it’s a reflection of how the constellation operates. As CEO Evgeniy Smoley puts it: “The information asymmetry that once defined pu-erh trading is dissolving. We’re just building the platform it deserves.”