At the beginning of the Lunar New Year celebrations I wish all of you luck, joy and abundance – particularly with regard to good tea! Possibly Related Posts: Pure Pu’er ATB Blog Carnival: AdagioTeas’ “Roots Campaign.” How I generally brew shu pu’er Da Hong Pao among the mists New storage for pu’er
This past weekend I took the opportunity to try some tea that I purchased from Michael Coffey of Tea Geek quite some time ago. This tea is, in essence, very large leaves from the bushes of a pu’er varietal simply dried and tied into bundles. As described on the Tea Geek blog: [This] limited availability [...]
Adagio Teas’ Roots Campaign, which has been operating for the past two years, was created for the purpose of connecting tea drinkers more directly with information about the producers of the teas they drink. More than a dozen tea growers have been featured so far, providing Adagio’s customers additional insight into the people who comprise [...]
My contribution to this month’s ATB-sponsored Tea Blog Carnival is on the topic of my general methods for brewing shu (cooked) pu’er. The steps and the accoutrements: I almost always use Crystal Geyser spring water for shu pu’er (and other teas). It’s affordable and works just as well or better with tea as some of [...]
Sometimes teas seem to come to me thematically, with several examples from a certain category from different sources all ariving in sequence. One example of this is that over the past couple of months I have had at least six different batches of Da Hong Pao, all from different vendors, which is something of an [...]
Last weekend I had the great fortune to find and acquire this perfect and beautiful ceramic pu’er storage vessel. Of course I have no idea whether the talented clay artist who made this piece intended for it to be used to store tea, but it is undeniable that he or she modeled it after traditional [...]
Don’t these teas look delicious? This is Canton Tea Company’s newly arrived Spring Collection. From the press release: Our first crop of four spring teas has arrived and they are every bit as good as we hoped. Fresh of course, naturally sweet and distinctive, each one goes beyond our expectations. Mao Jian is made up [...]
That thing on the left is an ebony coaster/tray which gets placed underneath a tasting cup/aroma cup set during a Gongfu Cha session. The thing on the right is way too full of fingerprints! I have, on more than one occasion, seen one of those coasters in my peripheral vision and thought it was my [...]
Confining scope to just the teas of China, it seems to me that tea drinkers in the United States tend not to approach green teas with the same level of seriousness that they afford rare aged pu’er teas or high quality oolongs. But there are indeed some fabulous and exquisite green teas from China, some [...]
Editor’s Note: The following is a post by Cosmin Dordea, who writes the tea blogs Chadao, Way Of Tea Europe and Chadao Calea Ceaiului. ********************* “A musician can have Kung Fu, or the poet who paints pictures with words and makes emperors weep, this too is Kung Fu.” As mister Jackie Chan said above, kung [...]
