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Thank you Mr. Bok for your comment. It makes me want to go to Taiwan soon. Never been there but I need to sample all these great teas.

You may be (and I suspect are) confusing "knowledge" with "details". Having watched a few of his deep-dive videos and a couple of basics videos (though not for about a year): - The enthusiasm and production values are excellent, and I can't really criticise him for his schtick just because I person...

All Puer teas from WIstaria are sheng. Be careful about the bowl and cake of the teas. They are for some unknown reason not the same. I have a 2003 Zi Pin bowl which is so different that the 2003 Zi Pin cake. The bowl is more compressed, more smoky and less Qi than the cake version.

Any photos of the tea? 緊茶 literally means "tight tea". I think it's usually used for mushroom shaped tea, e.g. the Xiaguan Tibetan Mushroom teas. For a tea that has a meaning of "tight tea", it's not tight at all :) It's very loosely compressed. This tea so different than all other Wistaria teas th...

IMG_0004.jpg Drinking an unknown free sample from Wistaria. Unknown because it was labeled in Chinese and I can't read Chinese. When I inquired Ms. Wei Lin at Wistaria what this tea was, she wrote to me "the tea sample "緊茶“ is not on the online shop~ actually the online shop doesn't have all our pr...

The last 3 days I have been drinking some teas samples sent to me by Wistaria tea house in Taipei. 1) Tai He (2005 loose leaf Yiwu) Smoky and sweet for the first 4-5 steeps. The later steeps were bland and weak. I expect much better for their top of the line tea. According to their website, this is ...

klepto wrote: ↑

Sun May 31, 2020 4:39 pm

Drink better, but drink less is my motto.

Best advice ever! At my age (late 40's), I should be drinking less but more quality teas!

The problem is obviously that your hot plate doesn't have enough power. But you could still use it for keeping the water hot during your tea session after bringing it to boil on your kitchen stove. Out of all standard heating methods, an induction stove is the one i wouldn't use. No reason, just a ...

I preheat the water in electric kettle or on a gas top range first before putting in to tetsubin. The difference in water taste / effect on the tea made is the biggest among every brewing vessels I have. It was extremely obvious to me. Mine is a chagama (same idea) that has an old urushi layer insi...

Bok I have not tried using my gas oven because it's far away from my tea table. I need something next to me. Thank you for your suggestion sir. Pants404 The mini induction plate you showed me will not work because 1) it does not list the minimum diameter required and 2) as Bok stated, it is 220v. I...

I bought my tetsubin more than 2 year ago but I used it only 3 times since. The reasons I'm not using my tetsubin more are: 1) It takes 40 minutes to heat up my water to boiling point on my iron hot plate 2) I'm not sure I can tell the difference in taste as compared to my steel electric kettle :) A...

Tor wrote: ↑

Sat May 23, 2020 2:40 am

Kagoshima Horiguchi Seicha Tea. Please enjoy!

Thanks @Tor for the beautiful video! I did not know that water and rice bran can be used as pesticide.

I have long stated, as an observer and student from the West, regarding the 3 largest tea producing regions (although Uji is now 5th) ... oversimplified albeit w/ a healthy dose of stereotyping :mrgreen: : UJI signifies tradition above all else. KAGOSHIMA (and Yame follows their lead) has long been...

In the past I found the Uji Shincha Kirameki asamushi to be on the lighter side, like a delicious sweet pea liquor. I haven’t tried Yukki-Cha yet, did you order this years 2020 Shincha from them? They have a huge Shincha selection, did you order any others as well? How are they shipping from Japan?...

I purchased some puers teas from Wistaria 2 wks ago (https://www.wistariateahouse.com/mainssl/modules/MySpace/index.php). They were in the process of moving their computer to another place so my order got delayed. In response, they sent me five 25gm samples of their best puers for free (125gm total!...