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Wan ling tea house have 6918 on offer. I had similar numbered edition from purple cloud but it tasted more shengy. This one reminds me of "flask" shaped golden jar edition, taste wise but way smoother. I am hooked to 8592 so my palate is skewed. Still, one of the cleanest oolongs i got was from this...

“Three sips” have 2001 and 2005 liubaos and they kind of reminded me of 1815 brick and 2020 (2016) 200g golden flowers jar

Quick note on Taiwan situation. Years ago, it took forever, in comparison to China, getting packages from Japan. Unless it is express courier thru rakuren. Reason, there is no preferential customs agreement with e.u. My immediate concern with Taiwan was, short term, good, high end tea unable to leav...

another accidental find. I started panicking a month ago about EU stocks going low and energy costs causing further disruption in September. so I placed order with dragon teahouse for t8663 to Belfast. nothing happened for a week. probably getting stock in. I chose 6 USD shipping and it took yanwen ...

Trying to fight back against the heat this morning with some HK stored Liu an. Good tea for lazy slow brewing- comes out smooth and rich even with lighter water. 20 years has given it a nice typical ginseng and wood note and mellowed it out, though it still has some energy and a pleasant bitterness...

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Tue Jul 19, 2022 11:27 pm

Seeking flavor elements to describe it for thinking of another tea to compare it to?

no, rather trying to recall what type of tea it reminds me off. could be a mix between rougui and tianjian

"1990’s Hong Kong Storage Aged Liu Bao" from thetea.pl is the best liubao i ever had and im trying to scramble my memory as to what it reminds me off.

so this is not strictly about heicha but more about how this journey stalled. I mean stalled because Ireland specifically is accepting tea only thru premium couriers dhl/ ups which means I have really to think what I buy and it needs to be a few months bulk order. which takes fun out of it. at same ...

There is eBay seller "niequn-oleg" who once in a while lists rare editions. I got 5101 liu bao which was like clearspring version of oolong. He has this site and some other and I don't remember being successful in asking to list on eBay. But I will ask if they could list last one "jin-jian-2015". Be...

It was super smooth but downside it made me slumber so had top up with monster energy drink. Reminds me quality wise the one from siam-tee German shop. I wrote to the owner saying that Laos dragon balls were good but I blended them with liubao. About a month later Thomas introduced the whole line of...

I can see yunnansourcing added lots of different flavoured teabags from mojun brand as well as "Himalaya" brick same as purple cloud tea house. I've ordered Malawi dark, Iranian black, guizhou yellow and Azores one from what-cha. My worry was that nannuoshan from Berlin ran out of farmers grade danc...

There is few i would like to list that might give a range of quality vs volume For some im including steepster notes as i might find it challenging to recall what it felt like at the time This one i still have but despite being double price to me because of only shipment option being dhl, it is almo...

I would like to mention one sulier in the context of exquisite leaves. I got liubao from them. But they have fairly good selection of heichas. Apparently it is 2nd best teahouse in switzerland. Unfortunately, packages are untracked https://www.laenggasstee.ch/en/menu-online-shop-en/postfermented-tea...

My most recent discovery is using screw wine opener to break up bricks. Prior to that it was cheese knife with sabre tooth edge. The barbarian way to change humidity is to leave a chunk in the oven for few minutes for it to soften, dont ask me if this has anything to do with afghan cargo tips.

I don't remember how I came across this vendor. Possibly thru online googling chinese characters. The bottom line is that Ireland decided to punish Britain by applying same customs criteria to the rest of the world. So tea is zero duty and this got here in less than two weeks, only to be returned ba...