Tag Archives: aged tea

2010 Qian Ye Hao – Five Years On

It’s now a little over five years to the day since the first beeng I ever owned came my way, when I received a 357 gram cake of 2010 Qian Ye Hao as a birthday present.

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2009 Pressed Oolong

In poker you have to play the hand you’re dealt with, and the same can also be said of tea sessions.

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2010 Hai Lang Hui Wei Sheng

I bought this 400 gram beeng back in October of last year over at House of Tea, and have spent the intervening period trying to find adequate time to sit down with it, and to get to know it.

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2001 Gu Pu-er Ying Hao Tuo

I ran across this cute 50 gram tuo when putting together an order over at Green Tea Guru.

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2001 Aged Oolong

If you read enough blogs and hang out in the right on-line forums then you can’t help noticing certain trends in the tea world.

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2005 Nantou Aged Oolong

This Oolong came to me in the form of a 3 gram free sample that was kindly included in a recent purchase I made over at House of Tea.

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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.

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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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