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Teamasters and jadeleaf have good reputations among long standing drinkers. As well as hojo - even though Japanese- the teas he sources are very good. Baiyun : if you try Tea Masters, I'd suggest sticking to his primary product, which is fresh unroasted high mountain wulong and baozhong. Others can...

Some spare time today has resulted in trying two new yanchas and one new hongcha (for a total of about 16g of tea so far - small pots help). I think there was a discussion around here about how much tea is too much. I've always found myself to be content with any quantity of tea, whether it's one sm...

A very enjoyable yancha session from earlier today, before the clouds rolled over and turned everything dark - a 2015 ZuiGuiFei (once again, a cultivar that I know nothing about), part of my slow but rewarding journey towards understanding more about yancha. Andrew S That is a beautiful pot! Nice th...

I am intending to order some yancha from Lazy Cat and thought I'd ask if any of the members here had specific recommendations of great tea at any given price point from their current offerings: https://www.lazycattea.com/product-category/tea/wulong-tea/ Probably looking at Rougui and Shuixian to le...

2013 hongcha from TaoYuan, made from the TTES#8 Assam cultivar from wild old bushes. I've had very few aged hongchas before, and don't know anything about them. This one had an elegant and lively presentation, with some cool qualities, and some slight herbal notes in the aftertaste. Some aged charac...

Last bits of lazy cat's 2018 shuiliandong rougui on a cool morning. For some strange reason, this tea has only impressed me in this little CZ pot, and not in any other vessels, whether CZ or otherwise... I've never quite had that happen before. This pot brings a lot of balance and harmony to the fla...

A little sea of red - two (rather different) yanchas for breakfast earlier today. It's nice to be able to devote a bit of time to tea again, at least for a while.

Andrew

I've found a big bag of this tea that I had lying around, which I'm going to brew in a gaiwan at work - I need to see if I've only remembered it through a romantic haze of some kind... Updates to follow in due course. I've had some nice results recently at around 90 seconds, 30-45 seconds, 120 seco...

On the other side of things, I just had a fully packed session of that SX and it straight up dried my mouth out, two cups was enough. Unpleasant aftertaste now several minutes later, still dry. I think this was now much closer to the parameters you had, although I still infused relatively quickly t...

Two yanchas today; currently enjoying an aged example from 2015, which feels like a perfect combination of age and youth - very elegant and refreshing, with a perfumed aftertaste that doesn't seem to stop... I think I'm very far away from understanding whether or not any given tea should be aged, an...

I don't think I've ever used a tea subscription (or any other kind of subscription) for many of the reasons that you mention. I don't want to get samples of styles that I probably won't enjoy. I also don't like sampling small amounts over and over (as opposed to buying a few bigger bags / cakes to e...

Tried again with fast gaiwan infusions. Somehow even more astringent and stomach took a worse hit. Soup was thinner. ./download/file.php?id=13821 Ha, perhaps another example of where we depart in tastes, I guess... I was going to say before that I enjoyed this one with the pot packed very full, and...

Revisiting an old friend, my trusty 60s Biandeng. Still performing reliably with any tea I have thrown at it over the years, weathered skin and the humble calmness of experience… happy Sunday everyone. I've had similar thoughts about mine - always reliable, never fussy, and probably a pot that I wi...

1980s tie Luo han Indeed chocolate- but the kind of chocolate found on the top shelf in the closet that my mom once told me is for cooking, not eating It's always interesting to read comments on teas that I've tried; they remind me of the different ways in which people drink tea. I cannot recall th...

Another new little friend of mine - 60mL.

It seemed to enjoy some home-stored yancha earlier today.

I've also noticed that I've started to fall for pear shapes...

Andrew