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Breaking the Bad
It's not what you think.But you'll understand anyway.Last Sunday I decided to do a massive historical sheng session. Over the past few months I've collected a number of samples from a single maker. All...
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Old Cwyn Goes A-Blogging
For some reason tea blogging has a glamorous reputation. People think it's all about invitations to Tea Expos and getting free tea gift bags with spa makeup and nail polish. Or that tea blogging is...
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Grease Your Local Politician 2006 Xigui
I shook the hand of my first politician at the age of four, a Wisconsin Congressional Representative standing in our driveway. My father's pride was on the line when he introduced his oldest child and...
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Bag Fun on the Bi-yo
Spring blossoms in WisconsinI'm muddling along with my oolong situation. Call me Cwyn the Old Tea Bag. I just found a box of oolong tea bags in the cupboard I didn't know I had. This is a box of Bags...
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The Jet Set
Finally my tea buying vacation is here, and I'm just arriving in China. This is the ideal vacation for me, because quite honestly I'm fed up with buying dirty tongs on EBay and you know my problems...
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The Real Cost of Tea
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2015 Chawangpu Hekai Gushu Xiao Bing
Spring puerh cakes are coming in, and the prices favor the tea drunk this year, thank the gods. Chawangshop's entire spring line of 200g cakes can be sampled, in full cake form, for just under $200....
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2015 (2005) Chawangpu Bulang Shan Old Tree Xiao Bing
oops, unwrapped it before the photoThis Pu head Badger stuck her head out to look when she saw this new Bulang Chawangpu cake, pressed just a month ago now from "forgotten" warehoused 2005 maocha in...
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Tong People
I'm moving my puerh collection out to the three season porch for the summer humidity season, and testing many of my teas to see how they are coming along. It's tiring moving tea around to preserve a...
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2015 Chawangpu Mengsong Old Tree and 2015 Menghai Cheng Shuang
Oh yeah, more tea.This posting will conclude my round up of reviews of Chawangshop's 2015 collection that I chose to try. The last two new 2015 Chawangpu cakes I ordered recently represent the more...
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Lots More on Puerh Storage
An article on puerh storage caught my attention this week when tea blogger Nicole Martin tweeted it from her blog teaformeplease. What I like about Ms. Martin's blog and Tweets is that they reflect her...
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A Nice-a Cool Glass-a Eliminate
I'm sending out another poke to the Marx Brothers fans to come up with the movie title for the Chico Marx "lemonade" pun above. Can you guess it? No googling!Yes, it's an easy question. Politics and...
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2015 Chawangpu Lao Yun
Could be this year's.Although I've finished up testing my new 2015 Chawangpu cakes, a sample of the Lao Yun was included in my package. I can't quite make out the date on the bag, it looks like 2013,...
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Taking Care of Your Shous. Puerh Airing and Storage
I am approaching the time in my life when shou puerh is one of the more comfortable teas for Old Lady digestion. A gong fu session with shou puerh is always enjoyable, and I also find a pinch of shou...
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Wisconsin Pu Heads
Lately my online tea buddies say they feel sorry for me because I don't have a cadre of real life tea friends. Of course Wisconsin is not really a tea place, but more of a beer and sausage place. It's...
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Bad Girls 1997 7582
Some days I wander around the house wondering what to drink. That's the downside of having so much tea. Once the tea collection gets large enough, choosing a tea is like finding a snack, opening the...
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Improving Character Recognition
Deciphering tea wrappers is one of the challenges all Tea Heads face. While some of us might choose to study Chinese or Japanese, the vast majority of us will spend our time pleasantly tea shopping...
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99 Grams of Poundcake from white2tea
this shape and I have a past.I hadn't planned on reviewing the new white2tea Poundcake gourd but it is a week already since it arrived and no one else has. The gourd is just such an enticing shape I...
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Tea Sommelier
Last week I decided to apply for one of those hot Tea Sommelier jobs we see cropping up everywhere nowadays. Tea Sommelier seems like a perfect seventh career for me. Imagine spending your day doing...
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