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...
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...