Mouthfeel... Mh like it doesn’t want to stay too long, and happy when I’m finished with it.
Nothing interesting happened at all.
Mouthfeel... Mh like it doesn’t want to stay too long, and happy when I’m finished with it.
Kind of...I break of about 60g from a cake, put it in a tin. Drink it every other day in the same yixing. When that 60g is gone, I move onto another cake (for variety). I give the pot a good rinsing/soaking between teas. I only have two yixing pots and do the same with the other one.DailyTX wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:21 pmNoonieNoonie wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 3:11 pmDailyTX
Thanks for the recommendation. I have a couple yixing pots, and I drink ripe daily. So while I dedicate a pot to a particular ripe, for a couple weeks at a time as I drink through a batch, the idea here is then I'm all of a sudden adding a different ripe tea and possibly using a pot that otherwise has only seen another ripe for some time. I don't want to add a new yixing just for a once a week tea. But if I don't notice anything negative in switching ripe teas used in a particular yixing, then I may go that way. Otherwise, I'm fine with the small gaiwan I have.
I just have that pot for all my ripe puerh. It seems like you are doing 1 pot per cake?
I agree and I don't really believe in the whole ancient tea tree thing. I just want to make sure that tree has some decent age because I only drink raw puerh.Balthazar wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:31 amI don't have a good answer as I rarely buy anything I truly believe is "old tree material". But in general, the price tag (albeit no guarantee) is a much better indicator than the vendor's verbiage as far as leaf material is concerned.
It's not like there's only "old tree material" and stuff that's "not good at all", though. I'd say there's a pretty wide range in between
I think it's most important to get tea that you enjoy. Try different types of tea to distinguish the levels of quality. I think the same is true with vendors, try their tea and see what it's like. Evaluate your experience with the vendor and try to determine their marketing approach. That's the best I got! And personally I like wild puer so I would look out for plantation bush stuff rather than wild bush stuff.
I think recognizing older tree materials takes time and patience to learn. Even for vendors, unless they process the tea materials, most of them just source them from a factory. Within the past year, I have been saving my used tea leaves as fertilizer for my house plants. In the process of collecting used leaves, I have noticed difference in leaves size, texture, elasticity, etc. which give me context to compare and contrast.
klepto wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 4:12 amI agree and I don't really believe in the whole ancient tea tree thing. I just want to make sure that tree has some decent age because I only drink raw puerh.Balthazar wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:31 amI don't have a good answer as I rarely buy anything I truly believe is "old tree material". But in general, the price tag (albeit no guarantee) is a much better indicator than the vendor's verbiage as far as leaf material is concerned.
It's not like there's only "old tree material" and stuff that's "not good at all", though. I'd say there's a pretty wide range in between