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2003 Menghai Shou Pu-erh
When you start to delve deeper into the mysterious world of Pu-erh, you tend to run across one name again and again – that of the Menghai Tea Factory.
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Tagged Chinese tea, cooked, Menghai Tea Factory, Pu-erh, ripe, shou, tea, teaism, Yunnan
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1993 Da Ye Oolong
I received this tea as a 3g sample along with my recent purchases from “House of Tea“, an amount which is usually acceptable for steeping gong-fu / Asian style in one of my 100ml capacity clay gaiwans.
Sevan’s Ceylon Saves The Day…
As I gazed forlornly into the two open tea caddies it dawned on me that I might have miscalculated somewhat.
A Mild Green
The green gunpowder I bought at Whittard’s in York finally ran out, so I was looking to replace it.
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Tagged Chinese tea, ecological tea, Green gunpowder, green tea, tea, teaism
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Fujian Tulou Old Tea
Mrs. Teaist bought this tea for me during a recent trip to Stockholm. She found it at Grace Tea House’s “everything must go” closing down sale.
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Tagged aged tea, black tea, Chinese tea, Fujian, hei cha, lao cha, old tea, tea, teaism, Tulou, yellow tea
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Ikea Riklig Teapot
The weather was superb the other day – bright and warm without being overly hot, and even the usual stiff sea breeze had died down to manageable levels.
A Fair Crack of the Whip
I was drinking my early morning pot of green tea when a thought occurred – I’d only used the tea boat from the clay teaware collection I picked up in Stockholm last month.
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Tagged Chinese tea, Chinese teapot, Chinese teaware, mini beeng cha, Pu-erh, shou, tea, teaism
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Castleton Nirvana First Flush
Bit of a curiosi-tea, this one. It’s a blended tea, but from a single estate, the Castleton estate, located in the Kurseong district of Darjeeling.
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Tagged black tea, Castleton estate, Darjeeling, First Flush, Indian tea, Nirvana, tea, teaism
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The Tea Library – “Pu-erh Tea”
In this post I’ll be looking at “Pu-erh Tea“, by Wang Jidong (translated by Chen Zhufen and Liu Qingling). I was initially drawn to this book as it is one of the very few books in English about Pu-erh. That it … Continue reading
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