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Victoria, I always like the Lishan black teas that I've drunk for about 3 years. Both are bug bitten (so pesticide-free) & straight camelia sinensis. Championship Black cost about 40% more than the one that I call Sinensis. When I am drinking the cheaper Sinensis, I never think, "Oh, I wish I had Ch...

Shine Magical, My source for Oriental Beauty wraps that tea oddly in 150-gram packs (not foil) and tapes them tightly shut. It seemed wrong to me, but it is to prevent that kind of breakage. Another source uses the standard foil bags that usually get very tightly closed with vacuum-sealing, but for ...

[quote=jason19870313 post_id=17375 time=1571796714 user_id=86 The foushoushan excitement not so long ago resulted in quite a few teaforum members regularly purchasing from a farmer/vendor in Taiwan, but I think no more FSS. You mean fss president tea or fss private farm tea? FSS is abbreviation for...

Sweet and floral aroma velvety texture mouth watering reminiscent of a cream of corn soup. It is aromatic vegetal orchard vineyards with fragrance of sweetness. The taste is light subtle soothing umami creamy and extreme smooth. Yes, descriptions! Jason, thank you. We asked; you gave. For all of th...

Eson tea Dayuling tea 95.5k about 2100 meter 9th Floor, No. 106, Section 2..... Jason, You give a lot of details. I don't quite get it. Sounds like you are a vendor, but you are in Singapore & you point people to Taiwan..... Anyway, information is always nice; &, as a vendor/member who often mentio...

I can’t explain it but boiled and cooled spring water tastes different to me than spring water warmed to temp. In these cases the target water temp was 60°C and the “boiled As There is no self alluded to and as tjkdubya elaborated on, I have witnessed scale precipitate out of boiled spring water If...

it isn’t like any I’ve tried before, it has the flowery higher notes that I associate with white tea, but the depth of flavor and the big body that I associate with a black tea. I think next time I try this I’m going to shock it with a couple seconds of boiling water then immediately pour the cold ...

get the deep fermented Li Shan. It was AMAZING. It has a much deeper flavor than typical Li Shan, and it is also bug bitten. It was really tasty. If it is not roasted, that is a difficult tea to find for top quality. In Taiwan it seems that the best of such leaves get roasted. This year I sampled 2...

What is the difference between the traditionally smoked stuff and the modern stuff? Besides the traditional stuff being better, obviously. 1.Known for being smoked with pinewood (if memory serves). Using a different wood could change the flavor, but worse than that is the use of essence instead of ...

Has anyone had any luck with any of Hojo's pots smoothing out roasted oolong? Not replying to your ? exactly: Rather asking a ?, do you really like rough roasted oolong? I have stopped using rough roasted oolong. I draml fairly cheap roasted oolong prepared in my Taiwanese pot (porous inside/glazed...

Not sure what Bok means by "tanniness", but I know I started enjoying Assam much less after trying good black tea from Yunnan. After having excellent hongcha from Taiwan, I rarely drink Assam. I do get some of the Assam flavors in Ruby Jade 18 & R.J. 21. I used the last of a 50-gram packet of Ruby J...

carogust , you write so beautifully! I assume English is your second language because you live in Finland, but there is no sign of that in your writing. David, I'd love to drink that tea. Roasting tea well takes so much work to do properly. My favorite roasted tea (yes, the one I sell as well as dr...

Moving south a hundred km or so to Shanlinxi for the gaoshan that I call Perfect. I named this for its quality (flavors & flexibility) & its value. The tea from this Spring has opened up its flavors & settled well. For many teas I drink half of each infusion by themselves & drink the other halves of...

Tea from TAIWAN: AGED, TRADITIONALLY-ROASTED, LISHAN OOLONG (Picked & rolled by hand): 1. Organic: FATHER LOVE: Highest quality leaves from high from the producer's family farm high up Mt. Li were carefully selected for medium oxidation then were carefully charcoal-roasted for 2 1/2 days in bamboo b...

What's App---I don't do, nor Skype; so, Victoria, you have talked with the vendor more in a few weeks than I have in several years. Unless I win big in a lottery, I'll never meet him, but I will continue to get white tea from him. There's been a bit of magic in his acquiring excellent white tea that...