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  • Dahongpao, or Big Crimson Robe

    My school's colour is crimson, which is a kind of red. Dahongpao, as you probably all know, is a famous tea, and a very good one at that. So, I thought it fitting, in 2004, to buy a little dahongpao to keep for the occ…

  • Dahongpao

    I got this as a sample from Danica when I was in LA It comes in a nice little box, two packs to each box. There's actually no real need to package good Wuyi tea this way -- they keep quite well on their own and doing…

  • Having tea outside

    It was nice having tea outside yesterday. The weather was perfect -- not too cold, not too hot, not too sunny. Having a way of making water while outside frees you from electrical outlets and lets you make tea anywhe…

  • Rougui from Taiwan

    Moving away a little from my aged oolongs a bit, I pulled out something else I hunted down in Taiwan -- a rougui, oddly enough. This was a shop that I specifically went to before I discovered the treasure trove that is …

  • 2006 Dahongpao

    One of the best things to result from my reorganization of my tea closet is that, finally, I can actually find a tea I want to drink without having to rummage through piles of bags, mostly unmarked. I separated everythi…

  • Sample H

    Sample H today This tea was a little hard to identify. Looking at the dry leaves, I thought it could be some dancong, because of the long leaves and the relative greenness of it. Brewing it though Revealed a yanc…

  • Mystery Wuyi

    My tea closet is full of little bags, not so little bags, and big bags. Many of them, especially the little ones, are unlabeled. That's because they are samples from one place or another, and they always come in faster…

  • Shuixian from 1988... supposedly

    At the store that I took a picture of, I picked up some of this tea as a sample. It is supposedly from 1988 -- there's a little piece of paper in that big bag of tea that says ROC year 77 -- which translates into 19…

  • Some sort of Wuyi yancha

    Yeah, I don't really know what I drank today. More precisely, I can't remember, as is so often the case, what it is that I drank today. This is a sample from Aaron Fisher when I visited. He gave this to me, along with…

  • Brewing yancha

    I had the laocong rougui I bought recently again, this time using less leaves (about 50% of the pot was filled). Results were quite good, actually. The tea is a little lighter this way, and a little more aromatic, sacr…

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