“Sipdown/Group Buy Sample This one found itself at the bottom of my stash somehow, so I figured I’d finish the last bit of the sample this morning. Honestly, the one thing I enjoyed about this tea...” Read full tasting note
“I just finished my sample of this from the TU Group Buy I participated in a little while back. This was a pretty good tea – no complaints about it – but it wasn’t anything special. Good and...” Read full tasting note
“This one smelled more green than sheng when it was dry, so I had high hopes for it. There is a bit of that green funk, but it’s accompanied by the formaldehyde and flowery soap that usually comes...” Read full tasting note
“I steeped this a little heavier than usual due to the almost nonexistent aroma off the dry leaf, 7g to 100ml at 198-200F. Very light flavors with cooler water, borderline boring was my first...” Read full tasting note
This 357g cake’s “tasseography” wrapper is an original lino-cut hand-printed on hand-made paper by the New York artist Elaine Su-hui Chew. The tea comes from a village called Guo Jia Shan (过甲山). We were shocked there’s still such a poor village in Yiwu area, many of the kids are barefeet and lacking clothes. They don’t have any ancient tea trees, only 30 year old trees which were planted by the Government to help them out of poverty. These tea trees have been left to grow naturally, and are tall & unkempt. The tea is young & fresh, with notes of bright rock sugar, barley, fresh grass, tobacco smoke. It doesn’t have great endurance, but is very clean & pure tasting.
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