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Does anyone have any idea what this might be?
On that note – how do you guys deal with mystery samples like this as far as entering them in your Steepster cupboard or your spread sheets. If I don’t know what it is, how am I suppose to log it? I have a few more like this – a have a few mini toucha just wrapped in foil – I know it’s pu’erh but that’s about it. I have a vacuumed pack sample that says Tiguanyin – but I know nothing else. I have a little package that says jinjunmei. I feel like I should be counting/entering them, but how?
Just wondering:
A> what that tea might be
B> how the rest of you deal with these samples.
Thanks
Yeah, I’m drinking a mystery oolong right now. I guess I just consider it a vacation from tasting notes – the one tea I don’t have to write a tasting note for. It’s a pity though, because it’s a good one.
Such a pretty package.
Yeah the packaging is beautiful – but apparently it’s a tieguanyin which doesn’t make me happy (I don’t really like green oolong). :(
Generally the blue ones are green Oolong’s if it’s generic Chinese packaging. Occasionally It has been green tea, but usually its oolong.
But I have a brown package that says tieguanyin. Could it be a dark tieguanyin? Will post a picture….
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It is indeed Tie Guan Yin, and the name of the brand is Qing Hua Xu Ming. (Qing Hua refers to the blue-and-white style of Chinese porcelain.) The smaller text on the left is just a poem that doesn’t offer a description of the tea.
When I have mystery samples, if they have a Chinese name I usually try to enter in how they would be pronounced, but sometimes there isn’t a company name. I used to enter those in as “unknown” but later on I just logged the notes under the generic “Random Steepings” category.
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