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On the 1st of March, we hosted our very first launch gathering. What began as an idea shaped by years of tea practice and music slowly took form in a small room filled with people curious about the story behind tea leaves. The gathering centred on one tea: Lapsang Souchong (正山小种) - a traditional black tea from the Wuyi Mountains, known for its distinctive pine-smoked aroma and history looking back to the seventeenth century. Tea Is Like Life I opened with a simple reflection

Leaf & Lute began with a simple question: how do traditional practices survive when they are removed from their original context? Tea is often treated as a product. Something to be bought, flavoured, branded, and consumed quickly. Contrastingly, in Chinese culture, tea has long functioned as a practice rather than a commodity; shaped by geography, labour, seasonality, and ritual. Its preparation matters as much as the result. This project grew out of an interest in that disti