My regular tea menu includes basically three kinds of teas these days. Aged oolongs are the ones I drink the most often, followed by youngish puerh (youngish means nothing from the past two years, generally speaking). Then I throw in … Continue reading
Have to prepare for classes that are starting in less than a week, which means not a lot of time to sit down and drink tea. I did, however, open a new bag of my favourite aged oolong these days…. … Continue reading
I rarely repeat the same tea two days in a row, and never with the same teaware. I think one of the joys of drinking tea is to thoroughly explore all the varieties that it offers, be it young, old, … Continue reading
One of the problems with drinking aged oolong is that you never know how old the thing is. Whereas with puerh the progression is fairly predictable, and taste can be a reflection of time passed at least down to blocks … Continue reading
I don’t know if it has anything to do with my obsessive blogging about aged oolong in the last two years, but it seems as though there have been many more teas of this type available than even just a … Continue reading
I literally haven’t had tea the “proper” way for almost a month now. It’s rather frightening, actually. I finally have cleaned out a few of the tasks I have to do, and hopefully starting tomorrow, will have at least a … Continue reading
When you age something, you want it to develop that aged taste. Something happens to organic compounds that eventually they change in character, somehow, and us humans can taste those differences. How that change happens we seem to know very … Continue reading
I’ve been largely confined to drinking grandpa style these days, and almost always it’s my aged baozhong that’s the tea of choice. The key to doing this right is to keep at least a little tea left (and not empty … Continue reading
I had some keemun yesterday in a mug. Nothing harmful, I thought, but at the end of that, I could start to feel a little of that same headache creeping in. It was not yet a major concern, nor the … Continue reading
This is a tea that I bought on the very first trip I made to Maliandao, three years ago Time flies. I still remember it being rather exciting, seeing so much tea for the first time. Although many of the … Continue reading
