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1 reviewThis is a lightly processed black tea that was hand-crafted using a wild tree purple leaf varietal from Dehong prefecture. Ye...
Source Web: An open tea house serving matcha (ippuku issen, right) and a peddler selling extracts (senjimono-uri: Poetry Competition of Artisans, vol.2[online]. Wikipedia. Available on WWW: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_tea_ceremony>. [q864] [s90]
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2005 Boyou TF 0508M Ripe Puerh Cake
1 reviewBoyou was founded in 2005, now is one of the factories which still adhere to the strictest sanitary standard in Xishuangbanna....
NaKa 2013 autumn
1 reviewThe Naka king makes its way with a robust and specific taste even in the autumn season. Very powerful tea that despite it's...
2012 EoT Bulang Puer Tea 400g
1 reviewThis tea was a bit of an experiment for us. We'd found 2 different maochas from Bulang mountain, which were each excellent, but...
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Mengsong in the bamboo
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You can view the production of this tea on attached photos. Steamed tea is hammered into the bamboo tube and then baked on the open fire. Surprisingly there is no trace of smokiness in the taste, but the tea takes over the fresh aroma of bamboo.
Rinsed tea leaves smell like green tea – clear, sweet and fresh flowery aroma. I cannot get enough :)
1st infusion (about 40s) – colour is yellow to brown. The taste is mild, sweetish with a little astringency at the end. The tea is not yet open. Compression is not tight, you can quite easily separate a piece of tea. I recommend cutting it as a “salami slices”. Well, the association with salami is obvious. Tea really recalls salami sausage even with white “mouldy” cover. Of course there is no mould at all, those are just traces of bamboo, from what the tea was taken out.
2nd infusion – 10s – leaves smell very nice – full, honey rich taste with gentle bitter and quite astringent ending. There is enough energy in this tea. It is worming up the body. Also sweet aftertaste in the mouth.
3rd infusion – sweet and quite astringent. I’ve used more tea, so I am gonna shorten steeping times.
4th infusion – sweetness is changing to honey sweet tones – 5th, 6th – still enough of astringency – 7, 8, 9.
Perfect tea for everyday drinking. The taste is typical for Mengsong araea and it’s close to a rich green tea. I like these young aromatic shengs. $22 for 500g (2015).
By the way 2012 Mangzhi Huang Shan Cha Xiao Bing 200g was also produced in Mingshan tea house. Also 2014 Mengsong Ripe, what we also bough and will write about it soon.
Pu-erh
2006 Myanmar Kokang Mei Hua Bing Raw
1 reviewThis little cake come from border area with Myanmar from Kokang (果敢; pinyin: Guǒgǎn), area about 20km outside from China....
2006 Changtai Long Ma Rui Ming "Dragon
1 reviewThis cake is composed of Lancang and Menghai area selected materials.After 5 years aging in dry storage, this cake now taste...
2014 Autumn Mengsong Bamboo Raw Puerh Tea
1 reviewThis tea come from autumn 2014 harvest from Mengsong (Menghai), blend of tea from different villages, trees 60-80 years old,...
2015 Chawangpu Mengsong Old Tree Xiao
1 reviewThis tea come from Mengsong mountain, wild arbor tea garden. Trees are 80-120 years old, growing wild in forest.¨ We visited...
2015 Chawangpu Menghai "Cheng Shuang"
1 reviewCheng Shuang 成双 means in pairs This cake is blend of two villages and mountain in Menghai area. Material for this...
2015 Chawangpu Hekai Gushu Xiao Bing
1 reviewMaterial for this cake came from Man Nan Lao Zhai in Hekai mountain. Man Nan Lao Zhai is home of Lahu minority. There are very...
Quotes - Pu-erh
„Pu'er; 普洱. Also Puerh, Pu - er etc. Pu'er is the modern pinyin spelling. The place name of the Old City of Pu'er through which pack horses transported the tea from Southern Yunnan. The names were recently changed; Pu'er is now Ning Er and nearby Simao has the adopted name of Pu'er. Locally, in spoken Chinese at least, Ning Er is still Pu'er. “
Source Web: Zhi Zheng Tea Shop. Puer Tea Glossary[online]. Available on WWW: <http://www.zhizhengtea.com/>. [q626] [s78]
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SeJak 2014 ECO Korea
1 reviewKorean green tea picked in the spring of 2014 in Hadong district, Jiri mountains. Grown and produced by an organic, one of the...
JungJak 2014 ECO Korea
1 reviewKorean green tea picked in the spring of 2014 in Hadong district, Jiri mountains. Grown and produced by an organic, one of the...
DaeJak 2014 ECO Korea
1 reviewKorean green tea picked in the spring of 2014 in Hadong district, Jiri mountains. Grown and produced by an organic, one of the...
2014 Spring Te Ji Grade Lianghe "Hui
1 reviewSelected grade famous high mountain green tea from Huilong Zhai, Dachang village, Lianghe county, Dehong prefecture....
2014 Yunnan Simao Huoqing Green Tea
1 reviewSpring comes to Yunnan earlier this year. And also spring teas from regular spring harvest are picked a bit early.This good...
2014 Yunnan Zao Chun
1 review"Early Spring" - fresh green tea from higher elevations near Yun Pan Shan (1100m) in early spring harvest. Nice uniform leaves...
Quotes - Green tea
„Matcha (抹茶, powdered tea) - A fine ground tea made from Tencha. It has a very similar cultivation process as Gyokuro. It is expensive and is used primarily in the Japanese tea ceremony. Matcha is also a popular flavor of ice cream and other sweets in Japan.“
Source Web: Japanese green tea[online]. Wikipedia. Available on WWW: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_tea>. [q474] [s61]
Oolong
2014 Zheng Yan Tieluohan Oolong Tea
0 reviewsThis Zheng Yan tea from Cindy Chen was baked 4 times over charcoal to achieve a medium baking level. Harvested from a single...
2013 Čang-pching Šuej-sien „Black perl“
0 reviewsVelice zajímavý a kvalitní lisovaný čaj z málo známé oblasti Čang-pching. Tento oolong byl ručně sklizený v zahradě u vesnice...
Black, Red, Dark tea
2013 Chawangpu Xiao Jin Bing Red Tea 100g
1 reviewThis small red tea cake is made from 2012 spring harvest Simao high mountain material. Carefully pressing in Menghai , simple...
2014 Darjeeling Rohini Exotic SFTGFOP1
1 reviewExclusive collection of the youngest gardens in Darjeeling processed from fresh buds of cultivar AV2. The golden...
2013 Wuliang Wild Hongcha
2 reviewsThis tea is collected from ancient, wild trees on Wuliang mountain. These are truely wild trees, that haven't been planted by...
Darjeeling Jungpana Wonder Delight Second
1 reviewBeautifully prepared whole leaf tea cultivar Pb312. Very rare tea from this garden, production only 9kg.
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„Fujian Province is known for mountain-grown organic green tea as well as white tea and oolong tea. The coastal mountains provide a perfect growing environment for tea growing. Green tea is picked in spring and summer seasons.“
Source Web: Chinese green tea[online]. Wikipedia. Available on WWW: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_tea>. [q465] [s60]
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