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You Deserve to Drink Better Puerh
72 Hours from white2teaan excellent puerh if you picked it upThe whole endeavor of drinking puerh tea and building a collection is really about my best teas. My truly excellent teas define my...
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Social Media Fu Zhuan Tastings
My 2012 CNNP Fu Zhuan kilo brickLast month I received a packet of Fu brick samples from Oolong Owl who had completed a review of Moychay's Fu brick teas. Moychay is a Russian tea house who had sent her...
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Spring Cleaning a Puerh Collection
Management issues come up with a tea collection when one has so many teas that some level of organization and possibly curating down become necessary. Various reasons for organizing or reducing the...
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Bad Connection
Been three years now since the ex-husband moved to China and we got a divorce over Skype. That first year he lived in Hefei, so before he left I made sure he tried plenty of Anhui heicha just to...
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North American Puerh Buyers
Recently Lew Perin sent me some photos of a beeng date stamped 2004 pressed through the efforts of one of our earliest North American puerh bloggers, Mike Petro. The "Just Puer" logo and simple-style...
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Gushu Goes on Sale
In one of my earlier posts this year, I cleaned out my boxes of samples and got rid of a few teas I know I will never drink up. I kept a few of the samples to try out over the summer, and one of these...
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One Year, One Kilo Fu Zhuan Brick
On January 1 of this year I started a project of drinking up my 2012 CNNP Fu Zhuan brick tea. A full kilo (1000g) is about the same size as 3 regular size beengs of puerh. I chose to drink this Fu...
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The Sample Life
Here is yet another tea sample I pulled from my stash this spring that I wanted to try. I am not sure where this is from, maybe Mr. Mopar? Anyway, it is labeled 1990s Menghai 8592 which is a shou...
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2020 Chen Sheng Hao Naka
Chen Sheng Hao sampler boxI have had a bit of a break on my blog here, mainly due weather. We have had a very hot and humid summer this year, living on the edge of the western heat domes plaguing the...
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2021 Gas
I literally have it. Gas, I mean. This last month has sucked big fat bowels as I struggled to drink this tea and get this review done. I take some medications that are ripping me a new one and I waited...
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Monitoring My Purchases: 1 Kilo Fu Brick and Teforia
2012 CNNP Fu Zhuan BrickTwo more days left of October. Well, slightly less than three actually. I cannot wait for this month to be over. This month cost me so much money and I didn't even buy puerh...
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2020 Chen Sheng Hao Lao Ban Zhang
2020 CSH LBZChen Sheng Hao is currently in the midst of their "Black Friday" sale which includes some good deals on samples and other teas in their collection. Until November 29, most samples are 20%...
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Non-Linear Perceptions of Quality in Puerh Tea
At the beginning of December I had an intestinal surgery, and as a result I have been off puerh for the month. Nothing stops me from thinking about it, however. Recently I watched an interesting video...
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One Year One Kilo Fu One Year Later
A year spent drinking a 1 kilo brick of Fu Zhuan tea is sufficiently long enough to consider Fu a personal dietary component. Finally the thing is gone, my 2012 CNNP Fu Zhuan kilo brick I purchased for...
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Chen Sheng Hao 2012 Zodiac Dragon
Winter is a blur this year. My heating bill for January came in more than twice the amount of last year, putting the brakes on any sort of tea shopping, and mercifully a New Year shipping shutdown...
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2018 Sun Fu Zhuan by white2tea
Back in January I received a box of teas from white2tea containing a lot more than I expected. Twodog had asked me back in November if I wanted some more Fu Brick, and who is going to say no to that?...
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Letter to a Prioress #4
As this is a personal letter, comments are turned off for this post, and blanks are intended to mask personal or place names. April 24, 2022 Dear Prioress [______],I hope this letter finds you well....
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The What of Tea Rituals
This post is mostly a companion to the previous post, which was another in the series of letters that I write each year to a prioress friend living in a monastery in the US. I know the letter posts...
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w2t 2019 If You are Reading This, 2021 Bringer
This month I am finally getting around to a few more of the sample teas sent by white2tea back in January. The weather here was bizarre this month, alternating 30-40 deg C in temperature. I literally...
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Beginning Puerh with $100
My roof This week an EF-2 strength tornado ripped an eight mile long swath through my small town at 90 mph. It ripped out trees, branches and other debris, caving in roofs and damaging vehicles,...
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