„I had heard from other puer buyers that Ma Hei farmers now use pesticide & fertilizer to boost yields. But as we stood there critiquing this batch of Ma Hei tea, a large, multi coloured beetle crawled out of the leaf pile. “We call this guy the tea boss” Mr. Gao explained. “If he’s around, it’s a good sign!”“
Quotes Tags: Pu-erh, Gushu, Tea production
This Xiaguan tuo shape raw puerh tea is made for Fei Tai (For Taiwan)" means this...
Big Green Tree Yiwu (special grade) year 2004 is a very nice aged pu-erh still for a...
Lao Yu (老妪) : old woman Material for this cake came from a small Bulang...
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This is the first time we made blending raw puer cake, so we took advice from a more...
"Zi Qi Dong Lai" : The Purple Air coming from the east -- a propitious omen (from the...
„tong; 筒 - Literally a barrel or barrel shaped object. A tong in Yunnan tea culture is a bundle of 7 tea cakes wrapped in the outer skin of bamboo which naturally sheds from around the base of the bamboo stem. Each cake weighs 357grams so making a total of 2,499 gm. Said by some to have been calculated in order to remain under a specific legislated weight of 2.5 kg. There were originally said to be 8 cakes in a tong. The 8th being paid as a levy. An earlier unit of weight in China was the liang. A cake of tea weighed 7 liang and 7 cakes in a tong made 49 liang. “
Quotes Tags: Pu-erh, Tea production, Yunnan, China
This cake is composed of Lancang and Menghai area selected materials.After 5 years aging in dry storage,...
rich, slightly 'barrique' taste of oak barrels as in wine, balanced bitterness, smooth and strong finish,...
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