where to buy high quality pu'erh tea: 二月 2016

2016年2月26日星期五

2014 Amber Yunnan Black Tea Ball

2014 Amber Yunnan Black tea ball, 8g for each ball, spring 2014 harvest.

The "Amber Yunnan Black tea" is made from high quality old tree dating back hundreds years! The tea is carefully processed by hand and remains the whole leaves. The liquid is red brilliant with a golden circle, very funny!

Yunnan black tea is the complete fermented tea, and could have long expiration date. In Chinese languages, black tea is known as “red tea” a description of the color of the liquid. Western term “black tea” refers to the color of the oxidized leaves. Black tea can be mixed with milk to be served as appetizing romantic beverage and nurture the stomach. So in cold states, such as British, people like drinking black tea.

2016年2月24日星期三

2015 Raw Puer Tea Ball

This is teacreed production for 2015. Spring tea harvested before Tomb Sweeping Day from Dachau mountains where are located in the county of Lincang. Dachau trees are some of the oldest in existence, most tress are more than 100 years old.

This little tea ball is specially designed for westerns, 8g per ball and could make one brewing. High level of compression is perfect for aging and will preserve the integrity of the leaves for brewing.

My favorite part is the aroma of the dry ball. Followed by the aroma of the brewed tea and then the tea itself and uniform spring buds shape.

The brewed tea is delicious full of thick and sweet after-taste. With age the bitterness will develop more textured characteristics! This 2015 puer ball is one year, and the liquidare is light gold, very nice.

2016年2月19日星期五

Review 2014 raw puer tea cake 100g mengman

This tea has a fascinating flavor and small body but strong.

Got 7 grams out and rinsed in the gaiwan to start with. The brew is a light gold,
so it the 1-2 years tea is, and the aromatics of this is really nice.

It has a semi thick viscosity to it that hits the front and middle of the tongue
with feeling of bitter that drifts into sweet at the back of the tongue. Which
for me was definitely a delight to drink.

2016年2月17日星期三

Pu Erh Tea Appreciation (Part One )

Since people ask me some questions about how to tell the quality of Pu Erh Tea, I am going to write a series of blogs to share some of my opinions about Pu Erh Tea appreciation. However, it might not be agreed by everyone. More than welcome to discuss with me.

There are four ways to make the judgment of Pu Erh tea, Color of tea soup, Smell, Taste and Look tea leaves.

The whole process of tea taste is more likes to amuse your body from vision to olfactory, then gustation and back to vision. Personally I really enjoy it.

Let’s start from color of tea soup.

Because of tea polyphenols can be oxygenated in the air, the color of tea soup might change. Plus, color also affect by temperature. So the judgment should be made in 10 min after brewing.

There are many color of tea soup depends on the age of tea cake. Normally, the color turns from light and greenish to bright dark red with its age goes up. Such as, new fresh Pu Erh cake which is 1-2 years are yellowish green, and it goes to golden yellow after 3 years and turns to orange around 5 years. Then it is going to alcoholizated stage which is 5 to 30 years. During this period, color turns from orange red (5-8 years) to pomegranate (8-15years) and then reach ruby red at 15-30years. Any tea after 30 years, we will call it aged tea and its color is more like wine red. But whatever the color is, it should be clear and bright. If the tea soup is turbid, this tea might be peroxided, which is occurred by improper storage, such as high moisture or bright environment.

The Story of Tea

Let start with the story of tea. The most popular story believed that tea has been discovered in 5,000 years ago by Chinese Emperor Shen Nong. He is founder of the practices of Chinese agriculture. Also he has tasted hundreds of herbs to find out their medical value and write the book “The Divine Farmer’s Herb-Root Classic” which describes 365 medicines.

Tea is one of the herbs he tasted. Legend that he was poisoned in Yunnan Province because of the herb he tasted. When he almost lost his mind, he smelled some pleasant scent which waked him up and lead him to a boiling spring. He drunk the green liquid and recuperated his health in few days. Then he found out it was that the green plant brewed on the boiling water made this special treatment.

Since then, tea becomes to the most popular drink in China and Yunnan was the cradle. There are so many kinds of class right now, however, all the tea is come from “Da Ye” breed (Big leaf) which was found in southern Yunnan in 1700 years ago and then spread to the east of China and also evolved to “Zhong Ye” breed (middle leaf) and “Xiao Ye” breed (small leaf).

Because of the difference between the leaf and growing environment, the taste of tea are different. Normally, the big leaves are more aroma than small leaves. Also the tea polyphenol (TP)of big leaves is more as well. Pu erh tea and yunna black tea is made from Yunnan wild big leaves breed. So they have more benefit for your healthy.

How to package puer tea cake

2016年2月16日星期二

Review for 2009 ripe puer tea

The consistency of tea is very thick, rich. I opened the paper bag and the flavor was nice. No musty smell in. Normal shu, mellow taste. The more aged the tea is, the more fragrant the soup is. I love it

How much does puer tea cost?

Assuming we are talking the real puer tea, not the cheap black tea from flea market, it rang from $2 for mini tuo cha, to usually $100 for 357g puer cake.

Spring puer tea is the best quality whose price increases 10% per year for the post-fermentation The more aged the tea is, the more fragrant the soup, and the more expensive the tea is.

Keep in mind, the aged tea will be of a higher price than the average tea, but the good favor is not proportional to the price. Two main factors affect the price, post-fermentation and personal preference.

Puer tea ----Post –fermented tea

Puer tea is made of a “large leaf” variety of the tea plant Camellia sinensis and named after Puer county near simao

Puer tea can be divided into raw puer and ripe puer, depending on processing method. The more aged, the more fragrant.

2016年2月14日星期日

Dian Hong

Dian Hong, namely Yunnan black tea, red brilliant with a golden circle.

Black tea can be drunk alone, and also can be mixed with milk to be served as appetizing romantic beverage.

Yunnan black tea---- complete fermented tea

In Chinese languages, black tea is known as "red tea" a description of the colour of the liquid.
Western term "black tea" refers to the color of the oxidized leaves