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2006 Menghai V93 Raw Pu'erh tea tea tuo cha
Hi ,I am new to livejournal as well as to pu'erh teas, I have been drinking greens and oolongs all the while and now I want start drinking pu'ers for their complexity and taste.If anyone in the pu'er...
View ArticleYixing
Hello, I am pretty new to yixing and pu-erh. I recently purchased some different pu-erhs and a yixing teapot form puerhshop.com. They have all their yixing pots listed as zhuni clay which is no longer...
View ArticleJingmai Tea Mountain
This is my fourth time visiting the tea gardens in Yunnan. This time we visited the Jingmai Mountain, an area very close to the border of Myanmar. We visited various tea gardens, including "Taidi"...
View ArticleWild Tea
I have always been intrigued about the wild teas. I believe the wild tea trees belong to a different genre of tea trees. The interesting thing is that no one in Yunnan would drink this tea. I was given...
View ArticleNow on moderation
Hey all,A recent bout of spam posts has resulted in me putting the group on moderation, at least temporarily. Posts will go through an approval process for now.Thanks, and happy sipping.
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Rich pickings from Pu'er
Rich pickings from Pu'erBy Ye Jun and Li Yingqing (China Daily)Updated: 2010-05-05 08:17He Ruolan from Dali Nanjian Black Dragon Pond Tea Factory brews this year's Pu'er tea for visitors at the Yunnan...
View ArticleSpeedballin'
Sheng pu followed by aged bourbon followed by sheng pu = foodie nerd's speedball.Hooray for highly caffeinated lincang tea!
View Article2008, 2009
Despite my love of pu, I haven't tasted all that much from last year and the year before. I bought so much in China, I hadn't the desire. Now that a couple years have passed, I'm curious: name your top...
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Camellia taliensis (大理茶)
Yunnan Sourcing has a new silver bud pu'er listed from Jinggu. Of note is that it is not made from the usual pu'er varietal, Camellia sinensis var. assamica (arguably the same as var. daye), or even...
View ArticlePu-erh Tea Processing Video
During our recent trip to Jingmai Yunnan, we were invited into a small family-owned tea factory and able to take videos of the preliminary processing of Pu-erh tea and the making of Pu-erh tea cakes....
View ArticleSample Compression
I've been ordering samples from a number of vendors for the past year, trying to build up my experience and palate before jumping into whole cakes (who wants 357 grams of something around that they're...
View ArticleMaking of Pu-erh tea cakes
I was visiting a small tea factory during my visit to the tea mountain. The few of us bought some fresh leaves and the owner was nice enough to press the leaves into cakes for us. I was able to take a...
View ArticleThe Tangerine Debacle, Revisited
So a while ago I tried one of those pu'erh-stuffed tangerines, and it was awful. A few days later, and I failed to mention this, I tried some of my normal everyday CNNP shou with exactly the same water...
View Article2010 Macau and Hong Kong Tea Expo
The 2010 Macau Tea Expo will be held next week at the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel. Admission is free. The 2010 Hong Kong International Tea Fair will be held on 12-14 August 2010 at the Hong Kong...
View ArticleThe awkward stage of Pu-erh
I recently read an article in the Art of Tea magazine, in which the writer wrote that he likes either the very young raw Pu-erh or the very old Pu-erh. He finds the ones in between "awkward." I find...
View ArticleTravelling to Yunnan
Hi Folks, I've got the once in a decade (once in a decade for me at least) opportunity to travel to Yunnan. Xishuangbanna is on the itinerary, of course, but I don't know where in that region I can go...
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Poo-poo Pu-erh
Recently experienced an interesting tea tasting episode.It happen as I was running out of old Pu-erh tea.Contemplating the inevitable situation I sunk into a depress state of mind, just as I was going...
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Yiwu - Impressions of Gua Feng Zai
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View ArticleMedical Properties of Puer Tea
After drinking Puer Tea for more than ten years, I have found out that Puer tea do have some medical properties are able cure some common illnes like flu to reduction of clorestrol. Not too sure if my...
View ArticleTaidi Cha vs. Gushu Cha
The leave source is an important factor to determine the quality of a Pu-erh tea. If you compare a Taidi Cha (Pu-erh made from the plantation bushes)with a Gushu Cha (Pu-erh made from the old growth...
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