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Dram Alchemist Raw Puer - Okay, so this is one that I bought specifically out of pure curiosity. Don said this tea would make me instant "tea drunk". When I watched him drink it he was practically falling in the floor. Not sure that i'm getting the same effect (I think that's all bullshit lol). But...

Is Bing Dao worth it's price? ( assuming we are talking about the BD Lao Zhai ) Please note that I'm expressing only my opinion based on my current experience and current situation in China. I have kinda definition / formula for tea ( probably more likely the most suitable for puer ) quality=value=...

Would be happy to hear from you. Stuff like BD requires to be at the present of the harvest trough the processing till the end. I have only something what is some blend of near by villages and offer it only for sampling. https://www.yunnancraft.com/en/sheng-puerh-mengku/2016-bing-dao I'd also recom...

as already said by others above , I'll just add that these days the marketing is like that except the Bingdao village it self there are another 4 villages which are "counted" as BD : Nanpu, Dijie, Damao, Nuowu. Literally I went to the tea shop on our T market ( Xiong Da ) in specialized BD tea shop ...

aet, these are interesting points. I'm amazed that it costs so much less to ship from China to Canada than it does to the U.S. I've bought from a few vendors in China and have been charged a range of prices for shipping, from $10 to over $20. just double checked from EMS system directly and they ra...

aet, these are interesting points. I'm amazed that it costs so much less to ship from China to Canada than it does to the U.S. I've bought from a few vendors in China and have been charged a range of prices for shipping, from $10 to over $20. I'm not sure if it costs more to ship tea in a box than ...

Just thought this discussion might be separated from the vendor talk. It is kind mysterious to me that on one side consumer requires full transparency from the vendor but somehow can get over that " little lie " that no shipping needs to be paid with the order. Of course, not on the paper , but we a...

Then almost 2 months later I get an auto generated email offering me free shipping because I didn't buy anything. It makes me think that the same is expected also from other vendors. I have tons of open baskets lined up dating back few months and I thought that people were just window shopping or f...

2) Ya Koy Lao village(丫口老寨) ...little correction ,if I may. - Ya Kou Lao Zhai

I didn't have a time to read all trough, just this I've noticed when skimming trough the text.
Thanks for your contribution to common knowledge, good job!

is happening due to the presence of sugars in tea leaves ( more here https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24021435/ ) it self and the fermentation does something with it alright. That link only mentions Korean green tea having the lowest content of glucose, fructose & sucrose ( apparently we must assume...

I'm not aware of any research focused on this but from personal experience I can say that some wet stored shu can also have some alcohol ( fancy name Bourbon notes is used for it ) notes ( cant say if it's actual some Vol% alcohol ) which , by my conclusion , is happening due to the presence of suga...

for me in the morning as a replacement works shu. Not because caffeine but , I think , because of thick mouthfeel ( for morning I brew to the black-ish color , instead usual dark red ) and probably from psychological side the color. I'd suggest using small gaiwan 100-120ml and loose shu. Easy to con...

You my call it "tragic" , I call it dirty marketing ( which I do not resonate with ), same as with age trees claims. It can be both a tragedy and dirty marketing. If plant-based meat imitations were sold as real meat, that would be dirty marketing. But they can be sold for what they are. Imitation ...

That is kind of a tragedy, in a way. If you need to keep the magic hidden because it is used to fake something, then you are not using it as a legitimate manufacturing process for something people might actually want to buy at scale. Now, if the old stuff has value only because it is old, and good ...

1990s and earlier tea that's still generally available, I'm always asking my self , how much of it is actually legit? Some years ago , there was a GZ vendor on our KM tea market wandering and offering something in loose leaf called sheng from 90's. Relatively cheap compare to prices I know back the...