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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...
Year of the Pig
Crystal clear ruby red tea liquor is rich and sweet! No any weird wet or dry notes in present give sign of very good storage. The caramelo-walnutty scent from the hot gai wan lid will tell you about the unique fermentation. As a vintage shu it needs few infusions to start releasing real "juice" which has some woody notes due to the Kunming storage , but...
Nice slightly bitter front taste will comfort your mouth with first sip. Golden yellow tea soup with pleasant bitter-sweet taste will start reveal its woody and light smoky notes during many infusions. Sweet mouth feel occurs right after the 2nd infusion. Nice vintage cake from early spring harvest of Wu Liang mountain.
Very beautiful settled fruity scent comes out from gai wan and so the taste of golden tea soup. Warm feeling and sweet buzz under the tongue will give you a pleasure to drink this one on daily basis. With extending brewing time , the tea is not getting much more bitter but increasing the "hui gan" experience , which is the very good sign.
The spring tea material from bushes blended with arbor tea trees growing on Youle mountain. Nice scent of "mei li" plums on dry wood will hit your nose if you stare into your gaiwan while pouring hot water on those tea leafs. Clean medium dark tea soup is sweet and full in mouth. "sheng jing" is graduating within each steeping and lingering at the back of...
This quite old tea bits and pieces pressed into the small 6g brick. Mixture of bushes with small arbors and some "huang pian" provides quite unique taste. The "xuan mi cha" which is special Japanese tea ( combination of deep fried rice with green tea ) . Put in simple words, tea is bitter-sweet ( very warming ) , has "hui gan" slight "sheng jing" on sides...
Vintage hard pressed sheng pu from Zhong Cha company needs few infusions to get the leafs release nice clean dry bitter-sweet taste with woody and slight fruity notes. "hui gan" is there as well and mouth sweet comes around after few infusions.
Spring tea leafs from Wuliang mountain plantations located around 2400m alt. Hard pressed followed autumn into the 380g tea cake also known as 'tie bing' (steel cake) by Nanjian tea factory. Despite of "pu-erh fever" in 2007 year this cake has a relatively uniformed grade of tea material , since factory uses their own plantations.
Light 'dui wei' scent can be experienced when opening wrapper suggesting the storage is not full Kunming dry but partially stored in Menghai. Taste spectrum is also bit different from it's replacement red label. Tea soup is rich and sweet with pleasant bitter background all the way through 4-6 infusions and diminished a bit after which brings up more...
Sheng pu-erh from Xiaguan pressed into the 250g brick without any wrapping, 5 bricks in the paper pack. If buy single brick we wrap it into the paper bag for you. Typically smokey notes in taste but more fruity background than the younger ( 2017) version we also have. This is also contributed by different storage which was in north of China.
"Chun Jian" - Spring Bud , 400g Rongshi tea factory made sheng pu-erh, aged in private storage not far from the lake so transformation is much subtle and fruity than in general Kunming dry warehouses. The overall taste reminds Xiaguan production from approx. same year , but without excessive smoky notes. It is a decent aged sheng for very reasonable price...
Traditional concept of Liu Bao tea without fermentation process applied before being stuffed into the bamboo baskets for further natural ageing in the basement storage. Autumn harvest tea leaves offer very sweet and non astringent tea soup with usual basement notes of the Wuzhou wet storage. Light in color but intensive in taste for quite few infusions...
Small leaves tips and broken stems of medium fermentation from the Simao area where it was stored till end of the year 2024 , so there are obvious notes of humid storage, yet not as aggressive as Guangzhou for example. Slight touch of smoke reminding Menghai shu with combined basement notes giving impression of Liu bao ( yet it's a shu puerh from Pu'er...