Warren V. Peltier

Warren Peltier, also known as Xia Yun-Feng 夏雲峰 is a tea expert and lecturer who has studied tea for over 20 years. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in the LaCloche Mountains of Northern Ontario, and later resided in Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. In 2006, Warren came to reside in Fujian China, living for 2 years in Longyan, where gongfu tea is widely practiced; he currently lives in Fuzhou researching and writing about the rich, complex, and deep mysteries of ancient Chinese tea culture and tea drinking customs. He is currently writing an expert book on the intricacies of oolong tea brewing as exemplified in Chayi or Tea Art; and he is also conducting research on the now long-lost tea ceremony of “dian cha” or “Powdered, Whisked Tea”, which was fashionable during the Song Dynasty, over 1,000 years ago.