Re: Your favorite Dan Cong vendor?
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:51 am
Yunnan Tea Research Institute and Yunnan University carbon dated a wild tea tree at 1,800+ years old in Da Hei Shan rainforest. The tree died in 2012.
?......Yunnan? ..Dancong ...? .please follow the topic:-) ..this is not about the Yunnan tea here:-)Victoria wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2018 12:55 pmYunnan Tea Research Institute and Yunnan University carbon dated a wild tea tree at 1,800+ years old in Da Hei Shan rainforest. The tree died in 2012.
Here is a video showing the habitat of wild old growth tea trees in Yunnan, at the end a 1000 year old tree is shown.
http://hojotea.com/en/posts-8/
I was under the impression we had moved onto old growth trees in Yunnan. Smart phone screen, my bad. Interesting video thoughaet wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2018 6:55 pm?......Yunnan? ..Dancong ...? .please follow the topic:-) ..this is not about the Yunnan tea here:-)Victoria wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2018 12:55 pmYunnan Tea Research Institute and Yunnan University carbon dated a wild tea tree at 1,800+ years old in Da Hei Shan rainforest. The tree died in 2012.
Here is a video showing the habitat of wild old growth tea trees in Yunnan, at the end a 1000 year old tree is shown.
http://hojotea.com/en/posts-8/
I had a similar experience, they approached me through Instagram offering samples, and due to the expensive shipping I took advantage and ordered 100gr of yashixiang and another 100gr. of milanxiang. It was my first time with dancong tea, and I was excited to try them. Wrong move xDTeaHive wrote: ↑Tue Dec 12, 2017 5:49 pmWe were approached by these vendors on Instagram and offered to send us "free samples" but required we pay for shipping which was like 20 bucks. We decided to do it because we figured we could make it a good video... They are sending us 5 samples of different oolongs and I am looking forward to giving my thoughts on them! I'll be posting when we get the video out. Hopfully they are better than what I've been reading here...CWarren wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2017 5:11 amI have seen many good reviews of their tea on both Reddit and Instagram but like I’ve said I’ve yet to try them. I only posted based on Tea friends comments thinking it might be helpful. No big if there’s no interest as I have no affiliation with them and no longer follow them as my tastes have moved almost entirely to puerh again as of late. Not sure if your question was aimed at me but yes I do enjoy Chinese oolongs though I admit I prefer Taiwanese more. On this forum like on Tea Chat there will be folks with more elite tastes who I imagine will not enjoy the same teas others might. Anyway don’t want to take up this topic with this any more of my chatter any longer as the point was to give recommended Dan Cong vendors not to over discuss the merits or non merits of one unless the OP enjoys that kind of thing. Seems Hojo and Tea Habitat are popular recommends.
I can't speak to those Dan congs specifically but I enjoyed the traditional tgy's sold by W2T. And also liked a number of other teas I've gotten from him.Crator wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:42 pmWhite2Tea just got in a few different types of dancongs in. Anyone have opinion on how they might be? I have ordered other stuff from here before and its been very hit or miss.
http://white2tea.com/?s=dancong&post_type=product
I've tried them both - definitely the genuine item. Not sure if I prefer their Xing Ren or Cindy Chen's, they're good in different ways, but the Ye Lai was superb. (My first experience of that cultivar, TBF, so I can only evaluate it in comparison to Dan Congs in general.)Teachronicles wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:40 pmI can't speak to those Dan congs specifically but I enjoyed the traditional tgy's sold by W2T. And also liked a number of other teas I've gotten from him.Crator wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:42 pmWhite2Tea just got in a few different types of dancongs in. Anyone have opinion on how they might be? I have ordered other stuff from here before and its been very hit or miss.
http://white2tea.com/?s=dancong&post_type=product
Which ones did you try from Cindy?wildisthewind wrote: ↑Fri Apr 06, 2018 12:54 pmI've tried them both - definitely the genuine item. Not sure if I prefer their Xing Ren or Cindy Chen's, they're good in different ways, but the Ye Lai was superb. (My first experience of that cultivar, TBF, so I can only evaluate it in comparison to Dan Congs in general.)Teachronicles wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:40 pmI can't speak to those Dan congs specifically but I enjoyed the traditional tgy's sold by W2T. And also liked a number of other teas I've gotten from him.Crator wrote: ↑Fri Mar 23, 2018 2:42 pmWhite2Tea just got in a few different types of dancongs in. Anyone have opinion on how they might be? I have ordered other stuff from here before and its been very hit or miss.
http://white2tea.com/?s=dancong&post_type=product
It's completely by accident that I discovered this thread, but this is also what happened to me. Last year, this company contacted me through Instagram and offered me free samples if I paid for shipping. It was 14 USD so I did and waited for the samples to arrive.