There are times when it’s better to simply dive into something and then do the research after the fact… Several days ago I was looking for some pu’er to drink and wanted to have one I hadn’t tried yet. I remembered the small sample of 1997 wet-stored 8582 pu’er which I’d gotten from Will of [...]
The incredible diversity of objects used in the preparation and consumption of tea is vast, with objects ranging from the most humble, like a cream-colored Buffalo china mug, to to the exquisite, such as a fabulously detailed ivory-handled silver Meiji era kyusu. For me, amid that vast richness of design and functionality there are a [...]
In my opinion, the best response to a day-long compulsion to drink Longjing (龙井, Dragon Well) is to yield to it as soon as possible. Longjing is a tea that I prefer to savor with full attention, so it is not typically a tea that I would drink while I am working. So the earlier [...]
