Storage experiment: young sheng, 2.5 years, 32C vs 23C
Another update on my experimental storage (click here for all relevant posts). The first hotbox has now been running for 2.5 years, with no intervention from me. One of the...
Yangqing Hao 2012 Yeh Gu
This is a “wild tree” 2012 production by Yangqing Hao from a “protected state forest”. It’s over 1$/g and is not usually available, due to very small inventory. This tea...
70s Shou Brick
Thanks to Wooju for connecting me to this blast from the past. Recently I’ve been exploring different styles of warehoused and piled teas, including Hong kong traditional storage, shou, and...
2007 Xizi Hao Xishangmeishao: 40C storage outcome
Xizi Hao lists this tea as a 2007 spring Kuzhu mountain (Jinggu, Simao) production, although people seem to believe it’s an autumn production. We can find an early tasting of...
1970s Shen Chang Liu Bao
A Liubao tea stored in Malaysia, thank you to Su for making such an extraordinary tasting possible. I’ve been trying a bunch of Liubao recently and it has a wide...
2019 White2Tea Astro Kittens
Unusually for me, I agree with every word of W2T’s description for the Astro Kittens cake. Not only is this the most bitter tea i’ve ever tasted, it is the...
2019 White2Tea INB4 & 2019 is a Gift
I’ve enjoyed sampling White2Tea’s new productions every year because I usually find something that really interests me, maybe something different or unique. Paul is a producer with a very singular...
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...