Nanmei Special Blend from Olivier Schneider
This cake is from a small batch of blended old tree Nanmei by Olivier Schneider. Earlier I tried samples of individual years 2014-2017 and I believe this cake is a...
2002 Wistaria Youle Tuo*
Wistaria teas, produced by the extremely talented and experienced tea scholar Zhou Yu, are not always the easiest to appreciate on a first encounter. I remember thinking, for instance, that...
Storage experiment: 2016 W2T Bosch, two years in
This is an update to my original post introducing the storage experiment. To review, I am storing part of my 2016 W2T Bosch cake at room temperature (23-24C, on the...
2001 Menghai Tea Factory 7542 Simplified Yun
I’ve been hoping to taste this tea for quite some time, and while the dry-stored version is way too expensive at more than 5$/g, this excellent traditionally Hong Kong stored...
2002 Kunming Tiebing
I recently got a cake of the Kunming Tiebing red mark, also known as the 8668. This is a long-running series, I got a version of the 2002 with natural...
Terre des thés vertical tasting: 2014-2017 Nanmei
Thank you to Olivier Schneider for making this vertical tasting possible. This tea, available here, is a collaboration between him an the local producer, Oyang, from the Nanmei valley in...
Theasophie Lao Ban Zhang 2017
The leaves certainly have the appearance of LBZ tea, a mix of white tips and silvery gray, with tons of hair. I bought a sample of this in 2017, and...
2003 Yiwu Zhengshan 500g brick
During my trip to Taiwan last month, one of my favourite tea shop experiences was at the 二壺軒 store on Yongkang St. The shopkeeper here will likely not have much time...
2004 Nanqiao Wang Bulang
This is a Taiwan stored example of the 2004 Nanqiao wang, a cake from the (I believe) initial year of production at the Nanqiao factory in Menghai. The material is...
2015 W2T Last Thoughts
Last Thoughts, one of the top-tier cakes from W2T, is a blend of Yiwu material which obviously includes some powerful tea. I have sampled various years of this and it...