Pu-erh tea


„Bĭng: The tea cake itself. Tea cakes or other compressed pu'er can be made up of two or more grades of tea, typically with higher grade leaves on the outside of the cake and lower grades or broken leaves in the center. This is done to improve the appearance of the tea cake and improve its sale. Predicting the grade of tea used on the inside takes some effort and experience in selection. However, the area in and around the dimple of the tea cake can sometimes reveal the quality of the inner leaves.“

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Source Web: Pu-erh tea[online]. Wikipedia. Available on WWW: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pu-erh_tea>. [q850] [s62]


Teas - Pu-erh

Big Green Tree Yiwu 2004

Big Green Tree Yiwu 2004
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Big Green Tree Yiwu (special grade) year 2004 is a very nice aged pu-erh still for a...

2001 CNNP Private Order 7542 Raw Puerh

2001 CNNP Private Order 7542 Raw Puerh Cake 357g
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This is a good example of CNNP "7542" production. This custom-made "7542" cake was...

2000 CNNP 7532 Tiepai

2000 CNNP 7532 Tiepai
4.5 stars 1 review

This tea most closely resembles CNNP 7532, but we are labeling it as tiepai [pasted...

2012 Mangfei "Da Ye Chun" Early Spring

2012 Mangfei "Da Ye Chun" Early Spring Raw Puerh Cake 400g
4.5 stars 1 review

This high quality old tree tea cake come from a small shop in Yongde. Using early...

2005 Nan Nuo Shan Raw Chi Tse Bing Cha

2005 Nan Nuo Shan Raw Chi Tse Bing Cha "7549" 375g
4.5 stars 1 review

This is a classic and old style cake from Nannuoshan Tea Factory which was renamed as...

HeKai 2013 - blind tasting set 2

HeKai 2013 - blind tasting set 2
4.0 stars 1 review

nicely balanced bitterness with a breze of sweetness, beautiful honey-fruity aroma,...


Quotes - Pu-erh


„Hui Gan 回甘, Hui Tian 回甜, Sheng Jin 生津, & Hui Yun 回韻…In literally term, Hui Gan, sometimes referred to as Hui Wei, is to reflect sweetly on a past event. Borrowing from the term 'to reflect', Hui Gan in tea is, simply put, a reflection on the sweetness of the tea - when one drink the tea, when the tea slides through the cavity of the mouth into the throat, there comes, after a short while, a sweetness that rises up from the throat. This sweetness is sometimes accompanied with a fragrance. Do not keep the upper and lower mouth pressed together when sipping tea, but create a cavity instead by lowering the jaw. Let the tea wash over the entire inside of the mouth, and then direct the tea to slide from the sides of the jaw into the throat. While holding the empty cavity, breathe out instead of in after you swallow the tea, there is warmth in the breath accompanied by a fragrance, and the same fragrance that rises up from the throat. This is Hui Gan.“


Source Web: 凱聞. My Life as A Tea Leaf: The Ineffable, Effable, Effanineffable...[online]. 2006. Available on WWW: <http://tarikteh.blogspot.cz/2006/07/ineffable-effable-effanineffable.html>. [q166] [s39]





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2013 Early Spring "Yunnan Bao Hong" Green tea

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2013 Chawangpu "He He" Xiao Bing Raw 200g

2013 Chawangpu "He He" Xiao Bing Raw 200g
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