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As a revision of my previous review, I want to emphasize the huge impact the quality of your water has your tea tasting experience. I’m in Seoul for the summer, and water in Korea is historically known to be exceptional. There are so many natural mountain springs that hikers regularly refill their bottles with water seeping out of the rocks—no exaggeration.

So, I brought some of this particular tea with me to test the city’s tap and what I experienced was an intensified aroma in the cup, extra body, and a much more pronounced, long sweet aftertaste. My friend and I were literally tea-drunk with glee.

I highly recommend serious tea tasters learn more about how to enhance the quality of their water to get the most out of the overall experience.

JC

One of my favorites!

mrmopar

An under-appreciated one for sure.

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JC

One of my favorites!

mrmopar

An under-appreciated one for sure.

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My ever expanding list of obsessions, passions, and hobbies:

Tea, cooking, hiking, plants, East Asian ceramics, fine art, Chinese and Central Asian history, environmental sustainability, traveling, foreign languages, meditation, health, animals, spirituality and philosophy.

I drink:
young sheng pu’er
green tea
roasted oolongs
aged sheng pu’er
heicha
shu pu’er
herbal teas (not sweetened)

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Personal brewing methods:

Use good mineral water – Filter DC’s poor-quality water, then boil it using maifan stones to reintroduce minerals。 Leaf to water ratios (depends on the tea)
- pu’er: 5-7 g for 100 ml
(I usually a gaiwan for very young sheng.)
- green tea: 2-4 g for 100 ml
- oolong: 5-7 g for 100 ml
- white tea: 2-4 g for 100 ml
- heicha: 5-6 g for 100 ml
(I occasionally boil fu cha a over stovetop for a very rich and comforting brew.)

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Washington, DC

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