Song Tea & Ceramics

Song Tea & Ceramics Tea & Ceramics of exceptional quality and character. We source rare tea and handcrafted ceramics of exceptional quality and character. Come visit us.

We work directly with producers. Each year, we assemble a collection of traditional, rare and experimental tea from China and Taiwan. We look for skillfully crafted leaves from clean growing regions – teas with structure, texture, and complexity. More importantly, every tea in the collection needs to be delicious. Our ceramics come from Taiwan, China and the United States. We collaborate directly

with artists, looking for pieces that show mastery of material and technique, and that echo our aesthetic. Each piece is beautiful to look at and wonderful to use. And we placed it all in a beautiful tasting room and gallery in San Francisco, California.

06/19/2026

The full line up of Song's green teas are now available online and in the studio.

Snappy Cai Cha, soft, pillowy White Dragonwell, peppery and fresh Huang Mudan, and dense, rich Huangjin Cha, all ready to be brewed and enjoyed at their peak.

Once a year, we open enrollment to The Founder’s Collection, a year-long subscription series that takes members beyond S...
05/30/2026

Once a year, we open enrollment to The Founder’s Collection, a year-long subscription series that takes members beyond Song’s core teas. Sourced by Song’s founder and tea buyer, Peter Luong this membership series features unusual, esoteric, and enigmatic leaves that aren’t available anywhere else, delivered in six issues over the course of 12 months.

Now in our 7th year offering this program, we’re returning to it’s roots, designing the collection around teas Peter unearthed during the spring sourcing trip, that for reasons of cost, limited quantity, or simply plain-out-there-ness, didn’t make it into our 2026-27 core collection.

These are weird, wild, and truly exciting teas, highlighting innovations in tea making and traditions long held.

To learn more about the year long master class that pulls back the curtain on tea making and sourcing, visit www.songtea.com, or stop by our SF studio- we’d love to share about this special project with you!

Hello! I realize I've fallen quite a bit behind with these posts! So much so that I am writing this after returning last...
05/10/2026

Hello! I realize I've fallen quite a bit behind with these posts! So much so that I am writing this after returning last night. There's a fair bit on Jingdezhen, but I'll save that for my Field Notes email, and I really want to get into my Taiwan work. More on that soon!

After Yixing, I made my way to Hunan to visit the gardens that produce both our Huangjin Cha and Cai Cha. While this vis...
05/02/2026

After Yixing, I made my way to Hunan to visit the gardens that produce both our Huangjin Cha and Cai Cha.

While this visit was short, and most of the time was spent in discussions (over tea, of course) about the limitations of tea craftsmanship in this part of China, I left with a better appreciation of the region’s terroir, and the hope we’d be sourcing more teas from Hunan in the future.

I'm playing catch-up here, with a post about my first stop in Yixing. More to come!
05/01/2026

I'm playing catch-up here, with a post about my first stop in Yixing. More to come!

04/24/2026

Hello from the field! I'm 3 weeks into Song's sourcing trip, and just now going over some of my field footage from Yixing, Hunan, Wuyishan, and Jingdezhen. Hope to post more soon!

Have you been following along with Peter’s travels through China this month? This past week, he’s been visiting Yixing, ...
04/14/2026

Have you been following along with Peter’s travels through China this month? This past week, he’s been visiting Yixing, working alongside artist Pan Yi on a new series of zisha ware, the semi-porous clay teapots mined and made to compliment the oils and aromas of brewing tea.

Each Sunday Peter shares an Update from the Field, delving into the stories, experiences, rationale behind the places he’s visiting on this spring’s tea sourcing trip.

If you’re not already subscribed, make sure you sign up for his correspondences (there’s a form at the bottom of our website, www.songtea.com), and join us for an armchair adventure in tea and ceramic sourcing across China and Taiwan!

There’s a very good chance you’re familiar with Wild Tree Yunnan Red. The sweet, fruit notes that make this tea a favori...
03/27/2026

There’s a very good chance you’re familiar with Wild Tree Yunnan Red. The sweet, fruit notes that make this tea a favorite with both our retail customers and cafe and restaurant partners alike, are incredibly consistent and superlatively sweet. You’ll find it on the menu at some of our favorite coffee shops - , , , and more, holding up batch brewed, made to order, or in a tea bowl.

The most recent harvest has hit the shelves at the Song studio and brews with a little twist! The leaves of Wild Tree mellow and mature in the first 12 months after harvest, transforming from bright, fruit forward flavors when brewed, to a fully developed, deeper, more rounded weightiness. We’re releasing this batch just shy of the 12 month resting - it’s the perfect opportunity to taste firsthand the magic of tea as it settles into itself, transforming from young leaves to the tea you know best!

Find Wild Tree Yunnan Red online now at songtea.com, or come visit us here at the studio Thursdays - Sundays from 12 - 5 pm. We would love to see you!

03/20/2026

Had a wonderful 2 hour tea craftsmanship and sourcing workshop, hosted in collaboration with .

We're really excited about offering more of these group workshops in the future!

For the uninitiated, Shan Li Xi will challenge your conception of tea. The character is both quite bold: think hearty ha...
03/16/2026

For the uninitiated, Shan Li Xi will challenge your conception of tea. The character is both quite bold: think hearty handfuls of roasted kettle corn, salted caramels, and fluffy cones of cotton candy. It’s the tea we’d serve at a tea party for four-year-olds. Or serve at a tea party of octogenarians; grandfolk who’ve tasted it all. You see, Shan Lin Xi’s distinct flavor and character lends itself to a certain type of nostalgia, of rose colored glasses, ferris wheel lights, and warm meadows. A childhood we might have never had but can still bring to mind, overlapping with a vegetality that provides a mature finish. It’s many people’s favorite Song Tea. And if you haven’t already guessed, it’s ours too.

The newest harvest of Shan Lin Xi Winter Sprout is now available online, at at the Song studio too. Visit us Thursdays - Sundays from 12 - 5 pm.

Gong xi, gong xi! 🐴🧨We’re welcoming in the Year of the Horse at the Song studio this weekend with pots of Hakka Pomelo O...
02/19/2026

Gong xi, gong xi! 🐴🧨

We’re welcoming in the Year of the Horse at the Song studio this weekend with pots of Hakka Pomelo Oolong🍊, bright red envelopes🧧, and a special treat from our friends 🍬! Stop by in person to celebrate with us and try Faria’s delicious Almond Brittles (while supplies last!)

We look forward to seeing you!

The Song studio is open weekly, Thursday - Sundays from 12-5 pm.

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2120 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA
94115

Opening Hours

Tuesday 3pm - 5pm
Wednesday 3pm - 5pm
Thursday 3pm - 6pm
Friday 3pm - 6pm
Saturday 12pm - 6pm
Sunday 12pm - 5pm

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