This tea is my favorite and most expensive Liu Bao. I only have about four or five usually buying Puerh. I went back and steeped it tonight. I steeped it five times for 15 sec, 15 sec, 15 sec, 25 sec and 45 sec. I used boiling water in a 220 ml gaiwan that I recently got from Aliexpress. I detected notes of berries and a couple of other notes I just can’t properly describe. Fang’s Gourmet Tea is an excellent tea store in Flushing, Queens, NYC. They have a small selection but it is all good. Their website is www.fangtea.com. Nothing they sell is cheap and it is all I believe high mountain tea. I have steeped this in the past and sometimes gotten quite tea drunk. In any case it always relaxes me like it did tonight. Alas they no longer seem to list this one on their site. it does not have the same flavor profile of other Liu Bao teas I have drank. There is no off taste to it or stale taste like in some Liu Bao teas. There is also no trace of the fermentation of this tea. I do not know its age. It is a good tea and Fang’s Gourmet Tea is worth a trip if you live anywhere near. For a small price she offers “sampling” which she does as a proper Chinese tea ceremony. Her store is hard to find. If you go in to Queens to see it write down directions. I recommend both this tea if you can get it and her store.
Flavors: Berries
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This is my large tea table and the Gaiwan I have already become very fond of.
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Oh my, I love your teaware collection!
I got the two “dragon” pots from an EBay seller called missteapots. She is my favorite teapot seller on EBay. On her web pages you can find out what artist made the pot you buy. She has several more in the same vein that I am dying to buy.
I only wish I had a tea table big enough for my tea ware collection. It takes up two full kitchen cabinets, a large tea table, a small tea table, and part of the underneath section of my coffee table. At this point I am trying not to buy any more teawares because I am running out of space to put them.
I’ve grown fond of knowing who makes my teaware (not that I have much, but it is nice to have a connection to the artist). I will have to check out that ebay seller. I’m short on space too and need to figure out some serious storage soon.
I love your collection AllanK.
Very nice collection.
This is my large tea table and the Gaiwan I have already become very fond of.
http://instagram.com/p/rsmVrLzDb8/?modal=true
http://instagram.com/p/rsj82NzDX-/?modal=true
Oh my, I love your teaware collection!
I got the two “dragon” pots from an EBay seller called missteapots. She is my favorite teapot seller on EBay. On her web pages you can find out what artist made the pot you buy. She has several more in the same vein that I am dying to buy.
I only wish I had a tea table big enough for my tea ware collection. It takes up two full kitchen cabinets, a large tea table, a small tea table, and part of the underneath section of my coffee table. At this point I am trying not to buy any more teawares because I am running out of space to put them.
I’ve grown fond of knowing who makes my teaware (not that I have much, but it is nice to have a connection to the artist). I will have to check out that ebay seller. I’m short on space too and need to figure out some serious storage soon.
I love your collection AllanK.
Very nice collection.