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I have been looking for Jin Jun Mei for the past two months as my last source just ran out and they have no idea when they will get more in stock. I am looking for the real deal, I have tried a bunch of other sources and they have so far been fakes or low quality. Please let me know if you are awar...

to ... "january" , fingers crossed Indeed. We are in full "lockdown" here until 19 January, and that includes cafés and restaurants. I don't want to be the proverbial skunk at a picnic, but the timing to open a so-called "tea club" could not be worse. You aren't wrong... at all. The concept + place...

the one Ying Kee liu an I have also doesn't give me so much of a buzz or cha qi effect compared to the sun yi shun baskets I have had - which I actually kind of like since its a tasty tea and sometimes I do want liu an without feeling like I need to go bike 20 miles. On a more recent session she di...

Maerskian, thanks for the explanation. Yep, that's what I was referring to: that smell of fresh tobacco, like the stuff they hand-roll cigarettes with. The first time I tasted it, I found it quite fascinating and exotic, but the novelty eventually wore off. I can't say now I crave it. You're welcom...

This morning I brewed a sample of 2007 Tian Fu Xiang Yu Bing Wang that I obtained earlier this fall from this vendor. Like several other shengs I've tried from them, it has a certain tobacco-like aroma. Maerskian, you've tasted this vendor's cakes: is this what they refer to as "wet-storage" flavor...

Reading StoneLadle post noticed he just took what i was about to mention even further which is the right way to do it. The question indeed has multiple layers and there's a need of additional information, even though i can understand the general notion but it's one that can be deconstructed way too ...

drinking the debris that came off of the serious formula cake i split for an experiment. yum. Just the dust alone or did you mix it with some of those random leaves ? Since some months ( 4-6 ) ago i started throwing the dust/debris/random leaves ( mostly broken, some whole that are left behind unde...

Thanks a gazillion pedant for starting this thread and sharing everything with such amount of detail, something that takes a fair amount of time and nowadays everybody takes for granted - spoiled by a world oozing with information everywhere - but it's worth taking a nanosecond to virtualize all the...

Maerskian, that's the one from 2009 i suppose? If so, it'd make me a notch more curious to try 2005 Sun Yi Shun basket from YeeOnTeaCo. Also, couple shots of Liu An espresso always give me a good deal of head space buzz! 2011 according to my spreadsheet, although i'm using the first bag i received ...

Always find a mood for - almost - each kind of tea; hard to name just another one besides Puehr, it'd be quicker to point "greens" as the one i'm moving away from ( not that i dislike 'em, but are at the very bottom of my preferences and can't find a way to fit 'em on my daily routine with so many a...

This might have been my 5th session of this 2008 Fangmingyuan Bama sheng from Tea-Encounter and i rarely drink the same tea so many times... not for the time being with so much on my storage i still need to taste for the first time. Can't deny one of the main reasons is the horrible state of my stor...

Double session today, mostly sheng - as posted on the parallel thread - and also some Ying Kee Luk On / Liu An ( "Ching Yuen Cha – Tea of 250 Year Old Man | Bi Jia Qing Yuan" ) which for reasons i still can't understand has become my wife's personal favorite... over any sheng she claims to be unable...

At this very moment not 100% sure on the wet leaves ( redshift activated, harder to teall ) but for the time being : sheng - shu - shu - sheng . Need to take a second look tomorrow.

Very ( very ) very interesting game by the way.

On a recent conversation with Tiago of TeaEncounter mentioning some of my impressions & contradictions while trying to pick up notes on teas ( particularly that unicorn i keep chasing named "sweetness" ) he pointed me to this particular - and very interesting - article ( six .... hundred :shock: ) ....

Think this one is relatively well known but not on this thread yet so worth posting: Short ( 35min aprox ) documentary where we essentially see Mr. Zheng sourcing tea for his Zheng Si Long puerh brand. Directly related to the tea-book "Puer Tea Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic" https://www.youtube.co...