Aging High Roasted Oolong
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3h ago
  Readers would know me that I like high roasted oolong very much.   Most of my high roasted oolong are those tinned ones as you see in the pix.  There is not much effort needed to store and age my oolong. I just leave these unopened tins alone and store them together with my pu erh tea collection.  If you own one of the tinned oolong, you would have realised that most of these tins are double lidded. This may indicate that the storage tin is quite airtight.....which suggest that airflow is not important in storing and aging oolong.  This is what I found. These tin ..read more
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Pu erh Storage - A Deepseek Answer
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2w ago
  How to age pu erh?  I asked the latest AI assistant, Deepseek.   Here is the answer, complete and unedited - Aging Pu-erh tea is a traditional practice that enhances its flavor, aroma, and complexity over time. Proper storage conditions are crucial to ensure the tea ages well and develops desirable characteristics. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to age Pu-erh tea: ### **1. Choose the Right Pu-erh Tea** - **Raw Pu-erh (Sheng)**: Best for aging, as it undergoes natural fermentation and develops complex flavors over time. - **Ripe Pu-erh (Shou)**: Already fermented and a ..read more
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Happy Chinese New Year
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3w ago
  Today is the eve of Chinese New Year.  Many Chinese families will have a reunion dinner tonight.  Like thanksgiving, family members get together and enjoy a meal together.  For the year ahead, I hope to travel to China and share my tea adventures with my readers.  To all my friends and readers, Happy Chinese New Year. Wishing you peace and happiness. Live long and prosper.  ..read more
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Time Flies - Another Year Of Pu erh Storage
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1M ago
  Time flies.  Before you know its 2025.   For me, it had been a mind boggling light speed adventure last year. I was in Norway and Denmark last September and was happy to see many smiling tourists doing their touristy duties in the cities.......but at the same time, a military war was being waged in their neighbouring countries. We are living in a strange new world.   Back to tea. To my readers, how is your aging and storing of your pu erh collection......how is your tea coming along?  I would like to suggest a way to check on your tea storage.  You select ..read more
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Tea Of The Year 2024
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2M ago
  My tea of the year (drumroll) are old Baishaixi tea bricks. But there is a caveat. This tea has to be boiled.  Place 3g of tea adding a mug of water into a pot.  Let the tea come to a small simmering boil for about 2 minutes. Switch off the heat and let the tea sit for another minute before pouring out the tea. Enjoy. I had found that boiling Baishaxi tea makes for an extremely nice tea session. The aroma has a sweet dried berry fruit scent.  Using an older Baishaxi that is 10 years old or more makes the tea extremely smooth, sweet and mouthwatering.  Ver ..read more
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Jin Mu Dan Oolong
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2M ago
Jin Mu Dan Oolong, also known as golden peony oolong are grown in the famed Wuyi region in Fujian China. Wuyi oolongs are very popular among oolong tea drinkers and some of the rarer productions there can be extremely expensive. There are many small villages that produced oolong in Wuyi China. These villages would want to showcase their tea and giving their oolong a nice sounding or unique name was a marketing strategy to stand out among the many oolong tea producers there.  I had recently opened a 'Golden Key' oolong from the Wuyi region 2 years ago and I was unable to identify th ..read more
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Tea Of The Year 2023
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2M ago
  I had written about tea for many years and I had not had a 'tea of the year' entry since I started. It would be fun to end this year with such a post.  The tea, in my opinion, has to be good; have some age and for its price levels not break an arm and a leg to acquire such a tea.  These are simple parameters. Finding such a tea from an obscure tea factory would be an extra bonus as well.  I present to you the tea; 2005 Shuang Xiong raw pu erh cake.  This is a Yongde Shuang Xiong tea factory production. I could not find much information on the ..read more
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Bamboo Pu erh
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3M ago
  I happened to have a bamboo-tube pu erh in my collection.  I had purchased it from my earliest trip to Guangzhou tea market. This tea had been in my collection for more than 15 years.   You can see from the pix that this 500g tea was 'stored in this bamboo tube.  I had seen pictures that .....tea was actually stuffed into the bamboo tube and some pressure was applied  (by hand) to compress the tea into the tube. In some instances, some of these producers even placed these tea filled tubes over a fire to 'roast' the tea.  This tubed pu erh I had opened was ..read more
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Xiang Mu Hai Black Tea Ball
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3M ago
This is the Xiang Mu Hai black tea ball.  There are 500g of black tea in the box.  More specifically, there are 120 black tea balls in the box with 6 balls packed in a small self sealing pack. This would worked out to about 4.1g per ball.  This tea was designed for convenience and all you need was to pop the tea ball into a mug of boiling water.  I found that I could refill my mug with boiling water to get another round of tea as well. Good for 2 infusions.  The regular teabag from supermarkets has about 2g of tea. This black tea ball instead has 4.1g of tea ..read more
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Bai Mu Dan White Tea - Fukien Tea Shop
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4M ago
  I was in Hong Kong in 2008 sampling tea at Fukien Tea Shop, when the owner Mr Yeo asked me whether I wanted some white tea.  He said he had ordered some new Bai Mu Dan and found them to be quite good.  I purchased 500g and requested that the tea be packed into 4 smaller packets. Upon reaching home, I stored them in empty tea tins and only trying this tea today.  This white tea was very aromatic even when I was unwrapping the wrapper. It was like a light perfume with nice floral notes. I used about 5g of tea in a 180ml teapot and I could get more than 6 good in ..read more
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