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Dou Li style, wide and low profile double fired clay Jianshui handmade...
These ya bao are picked from the wild purple tea trees varietal Zi Ya in...
First grade, although fairly large leaf , harvested from tea gardens in...
Handmade , double fired at around 1200C in gas kiln, Xi Shi shaped...
Handmade Huaning Pottery double fired and glazed Gaiwan. This " Galaxy -...
Medium oxidized and medium light roasted oolong from organic tea...
Medium oxidized Taiwanese gaba oolong. This one is close to the red side...
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...
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...
Traditional Menghai shu puerh hand pressed into the 7-8g dragon balls . As typical for this shape pressed concept, it takes few flushes to get this ball open and fully reveal itself in your cup. After that you have to be quick with steeping unless you want coffee black shu. Sweet and creamy with touch of caramel notes very light hint of smoke , but almost...
The first spring harvest of the big tea trees from the village Man Xing Long , located on Bulang mountain. There is not much to be said about this mao cha as it is mostly suitable for pressing and long term storing ( ageing ) . Very bitter but clean in processing and so in taste. If you manage to go through the few cups , the "hui gan" will also appear....