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Thu May 30, 2024 5:04 pm

Forest Hill Wild Tea Rod

Nice one!

Brewing an interesting sun dried red tea: 2024 Dehong An Ji Shai Hong https://www.yunnancraft.com/en/sun-dried/2024-dehong-an-ji-shai-hong#/3-grams-100g First time trying this famed green tea varietal transplanted to a yunnan high mountain to be processed as a red. At just less than 10$/100g - this ...

Is this recent trend or also seen in the past?

Got a sample of verdant tea's Shi Feng Dragonwell Black Tea that i tried today. https://verdanttea.com/shi-feng-dragonwell-black-tea No way it is from shi feng at that price point. Leaves are pretty roughed up - all tattered and fragmented. Tea is at least - soft - no bad bitterness or astringency R...

Some nice quiet red

Thank you for sharing this information LeoFox. I also collect these porcelain pieces like a Inoue Haruho teapot 井上春峰 急須. The porcelain pedestal cup, similar to yours, I use for gyokuro, it is by Noritake. Haruho Inoue teapot 井上春峰 急須 ./download/file.php?id=15096 Do you mean inoue shunpo? 井上春峰 https:...

Recently picked up this simple cup from kiln of Manji Inoue (井上萬二) designated living national treasure for white arita porcelain ware. Kiln website: https://manjiinoue.com/potter/ Info from https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/art/20230903-133345/ Inoue was born in Arita into a family of potters,...

Aged teas - shou, sheng, oolong ' whatever kinds teas - just deeply aged.

And using a thick, sturdy pot.

To take in that earthiness and decay..

Not something to uplift, distract, or to heal - but to delve deeper and perhaps to pass through

Dxjd needles - good stuff

I wonder if we as a tea community can change their minds - if more of us speak up to them directly by email, as i did.

For those of you who buy from thes du japon, you probably know that they have a horrible exchange rate, and that it is much more economical to purchase in yen. However, this is no longer possible with a recent website update. When i tried, i got the following message SmartSelect_20240314_225140_Sams...

2020 yixing hong from daxuejiadao

Black diamond from thunderbolt. Last of my thunderbolt gift samples