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Thanks to mention it. I was just considering adding something about another post but the self-promotion theme can get old fast, even if it also covers novel discussion. That post about Jason and Mississippi tea doesn't get too far into the history of what they are doing, or details, beyond running t...

It's my understanding that Bai Mu Dan is an earlier harvested white tea made from buds and fine leaves, and Shou Mei is picked and processed later, most often from older and larger leaves. In actual outcome Bai Mu Dan tends to be lighter in color, less oxidized, but that is probably tied to me tryin...

It would be interesting for someone here to do a write up on ML’s teas compared to other vendors in a blind tasting. Yes, I think in general we are way too focused on brands and the faces of these brands. A lot of people approach buying tea in wierd way, they want to find brands to be fans of and o...

Nice to see mention and feedback here. To clarify, there was an error in citing a Tea Drunk price, mixing up a 7 gram sample price and 28 gram price, which someone pointed out for me. Them selling Ya Shi / "duck shit" Dan Cong for under $1 a gram should've looked too low. About vendors producing gus...

On this somewhat tired subject of how good or bad Mei Leaf's teas are, I tried about a half dozen versions some years back, from not long after the brand shift from China Life to Mei Leaf, and some before that. It's possible his teas are much different since then, and much better. But then they were...

It's more that middle part that's interesting, and perhaps worth discussing, about a more "wild" plant type input. I've tried plenty of teas presented as such and they seem to vary quite a bit. In general a set of atypical aspects keeps coming up: sourness, or in this tea's case a bit of tartness, a...

Personally, i never use the term "grandpa tea" since i've never had a chinese grandpa (nor have i witnessed one sipping tea that way) so it's hard to relate to it - my grandpa would steep a teabag in an old mug that he never washed, actually, maybe not that much different style in the end, but cert...

Reddit's r/tea subforum is a really strange case, because the scope of interest there is a lot broader than it tends to be here, or in Facebook groups. The average post is about showing off a tea-bag tea collection, with a significant sub-theme relating to people brand new to tea asking what it's al...

A tea friend had watched about two thirds of it (later, recorded) and said that although it was interesting none of it was new to him. It's possible that if someone had read a lot of his posts, or was just really familiar with a very broad background, especially related to sheng, that it could all a...

A particularly interesting recent podcast interview is worth checking out, "Between Two Teapots," hosted by the Crimson Lotus pu'er vendor Glen. The most recent guest was Lawrence Zhang / Marshal N, author of the classic blog Tea Addict's Journal. More than any other old blog--still active, just les...

Always cool being mentioned, thanks! I have liked a lot of the shu I've tried from Moychay. A recent Russian experimental version was a little unusual but nice (I mean the leaves were Russian, not just that vendor). This reminded me of seeing their listings including a lot of interesting looking loo...

Someone posted in a Facebook group about finding a number of packs of Japanese green tea from occupied Japan, so presumably produced around the 1950 time-frame, or maybe a few years earlier. It's interesting just to consider what 70+ year old green tea would be like. There's not a lot more detail he...

Interesting subject, and one I'm finishing a blog post on. As for typical online discussion, making contacts, and messaging this forum or Facebook groups or wherever else all seem about the same. It's more about "local culture" than functionality, it seems to me. Maybe it should be a separate post, ...

That's a really interesting idea, running numbers on pricing trends and projected consumption and then buying 200 kg of tea (or more; however much it was). Isn't there a concern about taste (personal preference) shifting over time, and expectation about storage results changing? I don't think that w...

It seemed unlikely that vendor I tried the first version from would have something similar restocked, but in checking they do: https://www.teasenz.com/sun-dried-black-tea-cake-shai-hong Their offerings seem to be a bit hit and miss to me, generally pretty good, but really spanning a range. I suspect...