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Autumn Anxi Tieguanyin oolong tea from Chang Keng area. Fully hand...
Spring purple varietal tea leaves Zi Ya harvested from medium size trees...
Traditionally wood fired Jianshui clay "Zhu Ren Bei" shape tea cup made...
Jianshui tea pot in Ji Zhong style, fired in kiln traditionally on...
Long Dan Handmade satin black Jianshui teapot in shape of Dragon Egg ,...
Very thin and light , around 100g " ( weigh in hand without plate )...
White clay, handmade double fired "Qin Quan" - The Power of Qin Dynasty...
Spring harvest 1 tip 1-2 leaves from plantations on Bang Lang Shan...
Other shapes of tea , like pellets "cha tou" , small tea balls or tea in tangerine.
Takes few minutes to make this approx. 0.6-0.8g "cha gao" tea paste start dissolve properly. Its very "user friendly" as you can easily control the thickness of each infusion and no need any strainer, since there are no leafs or dust. Special glass teapots are designed go those "cha gao" but of course you can brew it the way you like or can. No bitterness...
"Sui Yin Zi" shattered silver - in translation, which comes from the shape reminding silver nuggets used as currency dated back to Song dynasty and before. Shu puerh tea leaves pressed through the sort of mince machine where output are long spaghetti like threads which are heat dried in oven and broken into these small granules. It is solely mechanical...
Spring harvest from big arbor trees processed in Huang Cao Ba village. Flowery notes along with slight bitterness and astringency. Not as good as last year one but still tea for Jing Gu tea lovers. Hand pressed / rolled into the balls sheng pu-erh varies in weight from 8 to 10g. 2y storage in Pu'er area made tea mature faster than in Kunming, but no wet...
Purple variety sheng pu-erh from Pu'er area hand rolled and pressed into the " Dragon balls" weight of 6 - 8g . Purple-ish tea liquor is sweet with dominating herbal dry camomile aroma and taste with slight touch of peaches in combination with slight bitterness and astringency, which can adjusted by temp. and steeping time, in order of making well...
Sheng pu-erh from Xiaguan company made for Tibetan monks. Pressed tuo in traditional mushroom shape gives clean golden color tea soup which is rich bitter and sweet aftertaste . As typical for this tea , also slight smoky notes are in present but not that heavy. Still young tea suitable for storage but also pleasant to drink now.
Dark fermented shu puerh from zi ya purple variety tea leafs growing in Puer area . Hand rolled and pressed into the 6 - 8g dragon balls "long zhu". Ruby red dark tea liqour which starts to appear after 3rd steeping when leafs start to loosing up, and then it goes on and on and on, when eventually dark chocolate notes will fade away or you will just get...
Spring harvest from young arbor tea trees growing around village Qian Jia Zhai. Takes good 2-3 infusions to convince this hand pressed ball spread inside the teapot or gaiwan and start to release it's goodness. Slight smokey notes are noticeable when leafs are hot but not much appears in taste itself. honey fragnance from cooled down gaiwan lid is very...
Hard pressed big melon tu cha from De Hong tea factory owning the plantations located around 2000m.alt. The slight mushroomy notes will reveal that it's not a completely Kunming storage , yet it's dry and fruity rather wet. Despite of it's a tai di cha you can get decent 8 steepings before it's starts fade away. Sweet and slight smokey flavor accompanied...
Gong ting shu puerh in tangerine needs 2 - 3 long infusions to make the fruit skin soften up and tea leafs start to release some decent liquid. Slow pouring into the small opening will increase efficiency of brewing and for last infusions also can cut skin by small scissors to get most of the shu inside. Typical citrusy taste shu puerh for winter evenings...
Autumn harvest from small trees hand pressed into the approx 8g small dragon balls " long zhu ". Despite of the autumn, this sheng give surprisingly many sweet infusions dominated by fruity notes with touch of flowers , which is typical for that area. Clean processing and the yellow leaves " huang pian " in presence gain on the mellow taste.
Autumn harvest from the Yang Ta tea plantations , white tea Yue Guang Bai hand pressed into the dragon balls in variable weight 6 - 7g. No need more than three infusions to let the ball open and start to release honey fruity aroma which goes in taste as well. Flowery notes " hua xiang " might appear in some stepping at the back of the tongue and vapor...
Dark fermented leaves from small arbor tea trees hand pressed into the "long zhu" , which takes couple of infusions to open up and give out very dark tea soup of the wet wood ( but not musty ) with gentle "nuo mi" ( but not strong as actual nuomi puer is ) notes. It's that natural caramel-ish sweet nuo mi touch you get from deep fermented shu which you...