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. Good stuff is limited and expensive. I think YS offers very good price. Shipping fr China is slooww. If you pay EMS it's quick but expensive. China site has better offerings but when I ordered spring harvest teas ( green or white) I chose US site. I wanted them to be fresh. I got my package fr US site in 3 days.
It's a flower that's used to scent green tea (usually) in the same method that's used to make jasmine tea. I use a yixing
teapot as mrmopar, EnjoyingTea had 3 pots on sale for $7.98. I needed one for just small samples, I have other dedicated pots. Can't turn down the price here for my sampler pot. I also ordered the green tea
, in a lovely cake of large dark green leaves, which brews up to a
To inaugurate my newest yixing teapot, I brewed Master Han's 2012 sheng puerh described at http://verdanttea.com/teas
this offering from the Xiaguan factory tonight. It is stated to be from the Jingmai mountain region. This is a very tightly compressed toucha with lots of green on the surface. Aroma is almost a metallic odor when pried off the toucha. Used the yixing
Having a Menghai 2007 "0782" tonight. This tea seems to have “aged” a bit on the outside but still shows very green
Bay Company. It is called an aged Yunnan blended pu-erh, and the description on the website read as follows: This kind of tea is made of sun dried green
" if you translate the name of this one properly. I started out with 11 grams in a yixing
Having a Mandala Tea's 'Wild Mountain" green sheng from 2011. I started this out with 11 grams that I broke off the chunk of tea I
I just broke open a cake of 2003 Langhe "Green Mark" shou pu erh from YS. Fantastic tea
are already seasoned and I wanted to have this as “pure” as possible. 10 grams and a 10 second rinse. The brew is a very light golden amber more like a green tea
with the age. Read a bit more on the site and Kunming storage. lots drier than Malaysia or Hong Kong. A good point as I seem to like dry aged better. I gave a quick rinse and went to steeping. This tea is
This is the pot I use for green and black tea
