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Welcome back, @Ethan Kurland!

Well, there's a large number of people living in similar climates that doesn't seem to notice anything like this, so it's a bit of an conundrum to me. Also doesn't seem to be limited to young sheng (which, depending on one's definition of young, I don't have much of in storage) for me. Glad I'm not ...

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Sat Feb 18, 2023 2:16 pm

Hello again Balthazar! Long time indeed. I do remember you picking up few of my pieces, originally from Origin Tea. If I recall correctly, a zini or purple with top hat shape and a fruit shaped Duanni.

Spot on, your memory beats mine. Must be the coffee

FT8653-6 (iron version) again today. I think I've mentioned before that I drink significantly less sheng puer from late autumn to early spring, because even with storage conditions that are unchanged at a macro level (i.e. taking only temp and RH into account) there is some mystery factor that makes...

Nice one indeed @wave_code!

... and nice to see posts from you again, @ferg. I picked up some pots of yours nearly a decade back on "the other forum", if memory serves you were transitioning into a coffee drinker at that time . Great looking Taisuke Shiraiwa pot!

Good summary aet , thanks. The production area is not that big as I was expected , but they manage to make / process and press lots of tons of tea alrigh. [/i] By production area, do you mean the facilities where the teas are processed after picking or the plantation area(s)? I would have guessed bo...

Are all their tuos similarly tight compression made with different grade or regional material/processing, or are some productions more compressed than others? By no means an expert on Xiaguan tuos but there has been a bit of variety in terms of taste and definitely overall "quality feeling" in the ...

I have five lead test kits sensitive to 10ppb on the way to check my pots. I've heard that home lead test kits are massively unreliable. Have you found some you are confident aren't? (Though if I remember correctly false negatives are much more of an issue than false positives, so at least higher l...

Digging around a little more, it seems that this guy from the fb link is also involved in selling modern yixing - and he provides the compositional characterisation results along with the pot - indicating it is free of barium, lead, etc- Prices seem pretty good I've been following his page for year...

I've wondered how much of this has to do with the teas behavior due to the processing style, but as was also brought up here generally higher grade teas can take more abuse. At the risk of quibbling I'd say that depends on what you mean by "grade". For grading systems that focus on bud/leaf ratio a...

2006 FT8653 (iron cake), Taiwan storage. Nothing fancy to kick off the new rabbit year, though this tea in a very decent place right now. The epitome of a good value "daily drinker mid-aged pu" for me.

Hopefully this is not too off topic. Balthazar What do you think about ZhongCha fuzhuan? Would this be an good entry to Heizhuans? It wouldn't actually be an entry to heizhuans at all, since heizhuan and fuzhuan are two different types of tea. (It can be confusing, since "heizhuan" sounds like it m...

I'm going to assume you are limited to ordering from "Western facing" vendors and not interested in ordering through e.g. Taobao through an agent. (Let me know if that's not the case.) If that is the case then there is a hidden blessing in the lack of options (no endless alternatives and decision fa...

Interesting!

Seems pretty simple to circumvent if it only means that purchase within Yunnan is illegal, as suppliers of raw materials could easily sell from (either a physical presence or a company formally registered in) other provinces.

Thanks, I have heard a similar opinion expressed regarding vintage nixing (generally somewhat more muting and less of an all-rounder than most modern nixing). "for example one of my begonia pots I feel actually accentuates some of the higher notes in some teas compared to my other nixing or yixing p...