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Mojun Fucha Fu Zhuan
Over the past week, I attended the World Tea Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. After reading OolongOwl’s travelogues of various expos in her blog over last few years, I decided to put this trip on my bucket...
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2004 CNNP Yiwu Arbor Brick Royal Tea New York
While at the World Tea Expo, I tried to scout out everything puerh and confined my activities to products and companies of interest to the readers of this blog. This means I turned down many...
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How can I afford this hobby? Puerh teas on a budget.
The most common question I get as a puerh tea writer is “did you really drink that?” The answer is, yes I did. The second most common question I get as a tea writer is “how can I afford to buy good...
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2015 Chawangshop Hekai
Tong ShrineMy tong of 2016 Hekai from Hanshan Tea House aka Chawangshoparrived while I was in Las Vegas for the Tea Expo. A tong of tea is a welcome sight to return home to, and yes, a whole tong...
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2005 Autumn Guoyan Lao Ban Zhang
Fall 2005 Mengyang Guoyan LBZfrom Yunnan Sourcing USA month or so ago Yunnan Sourcing offered a sale on Aged Puerh, a store category of tea that does not go on sale very often. With the addition of...
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We Go (Get) High
2016 We Go High by white2tea landed on my must-buy list after reading strong endorsements by two tea writers. This is an autumn production from last year, one of the few fall teas by white2tea, and at...
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EverydayTeas, a vendor for bulk buyers
Some puerh drinkers like to have every-day teas on hand to consume whilst saving their very special teas for quiet moments. Weekends are often quieter with time to reflect and pay more attention to...
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An eBay Fake
This week I received a tea in the mail from a reader asking for an assessment of a tea he was not too sure about. With some queries, I discovered the tea was purchased on eBay from Fengyuan Teashop, an...
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Teabook Puerh
Over the past few weeks my puerh consumption fell off the grid as I went through a dietary elimination to discover a source of GI distress. This turned out to be a medication which recently went from...
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2007 Liming Golden Peacock Qi Zi
2007 Liming Factory "Golden Peacock Qi zi Bingcha"Here is a tea I bought last spring. Back when I purchased the 2005 Yellow Mark from Yunnan Sourcing, I needed $7 more to qualify for free shipping,...
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2017 Best Tea Books
Finally!Tea chatting online is a daunting activity, with puerh fanatics known to lurk for years before saying hello. You can avoid the awkwardness of speaking up about your favorite tuos with this...
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People send me their trash and their treasures. I get boxes from people who really wanna get rid of tea less than ten years old. Hell, less than twenty years old! Then I will find another box in the...
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2016 Into the Mystic
white2tea usually sends a sample with a purchaseI received a sample of 2016 “Into the Mystic” from white2tea this past spring when I purchased 2016 We Go High, a tea I wanted to buy and subsequently...
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Diabeetus
Hard to believe another year’s gone by, yet here I am back at the doctor’s office for the dreaded annual check-up. Yes, my blood pressure this year is just fine. I sailed through the usual exam...
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How to Season and Clean Clay Kettle Boilers
I don’t know whether a post on clay water boilers is of interest to anyone, but I might as well post what I do with my clay boilers. Clay teapots and boilers can enhance puerh teas, or at least...
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New Suits and Old Shous: Sessions with the Longrun Company
At last summer’s World Tea Expo in Las Vegas, I had the opportunity to meet with representatives from Longrun Tea Group based in Yunnan, China. They had a booth set up on the Expo floor, and served...
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Making Decisions on Buying Tea Ware
Making decisions about tea ware is quite personal and can turn into an obsession rather quickly, whether a person is just starting out or has already built up an obscenely large collection. My recent...
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2017 WMD Mansa
Over a year ago I very much enjoyed Bitterleaf’s 2016 WMD Mansa, and I added a 2017 version of this tea into an order I placed last spring. At that time, my attention was primarily focused on...
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A Little Bit of Dayi
Recently at the Black Friday sale I picked up a 2016 Menghai “Yun Shui Zhen” from Yunnan Sourcing’s US shop. With the BF sale, I paid $31 instead of $36 for this 357g “throat feel” tea. Mr. Wilson...
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Puerh Rescue Dot Org
As we approach the end of 2017, now is the time to turn to the dark side of collecting and storing puerh tea and ask for your aid, dear friends. During this holiday season I cannot help but think of...
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