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  • Changing tastes

    I rarely repeat the same tea two days in a row, and never with the same teaware. I think one of the joys of drinking tea is to thoroughly explore all the varieties that it offers, be it young, old, roasted, green, black…

  • Aged oolong of unknown vintage

    One of the problems with drinking aged oolong is that you never know how old the thing is. Whereas with puerh the progression is fairly predictable, and taste can be a reflection of time passed at least down to blocks o…

  • Yixing vs gaiwan

    First of all -- the result of the last little question is in, and trentk, you should email me (marshaln at gmail). Chaozhou, yixing, tokoname indeed -- or some other variation of Japanese clay pot. Now, yesterday was…

  • 1987 Hualien aged oolong

    I don't know if it has anything to do with my obsessive blogging about aged oolong in the last two years, but it seems as though there have been many more teas of this type available than even just a year or two ago. I'…

  • Making a dent in my stash

    I literally haven't had tea the "proper" way for almost a month now. It's rather frightening, actually. I finally have cleaned out a few of the tasks I have to do, and hopefully starting tomorrow, will have at least a …

  • Mixing genres

    When you age something, you want it to develop that aged taste. Something happens to organic compounds that eventually they change in character, somehow, and us humans can taste those differences. How that change happe…

  • Using a pot

    This is what I've been doing the past few days Is it any better than drinking with the leaves straight in the cup? I'm not so sure, actually. In some ways, having the leaves sitting in the cup actually makes it more…

  • Adding silver to the tea

    No, I didn't run away. I've just been rather busy settling in, and playing with the silver kettle. I've tried four things with it so far. Two aged oolongs, one puerh, and one lighter oolong that's slightly aged. I th…

  • The result

    The experiment, I must say, was not conclusive. Of course, that's probably preditable right from the get go -- almost no tea experiment is conclusive. However.... having tried pouring my water quite hard and fast today…

  • How to pour water

    Another topic that came up during my conversations with Sherab is pouring water into the pot. Think it doesn't matter? Well... the story he told me is like this A certain famous tea master, who shall remain nameless, …

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