pu'er

5 min read 2022-03-21 16:18:26

PHOTOS: Here’s Why China’s Pu’er Tea Is So Damn Expensive

When I first started to wrap my head around the depth of tea culture in China, I quickly realized I knew absolutely nothing about tea. Now, after

1 min read 2021-10-23 16:47:00

Reviewing another interesting style of tea from Moychay, a Russian Gaba Sheng. After reviewing this I was looking forward to checking out the

1 min read 2021-10-20 08:17:30

“Puer tea’s improvement with age is said to be its distinguishing feature. From this, several key values were drawn out by traders,

1 min read 2021-09-07 19:17:00

Those friends I keep mentioning and I met with Susmit Pratik online not so long ago, hearing about how new tea types and region developments go.

1 min read 2021-09-04 11:00:00

Reviewing another nice Moychay shu, a 2018 produced version yesheng version from Menghai, so made from wild grown tea plant material, pressed in

1 min read 2021-07-28 15:03:00

I'm covering more teas from Moychay, from a set they sent for review (many thanks!). It's shu pu'er. Versions of shu that I've tried in the

1 min read 2021-07-18 11:43:00

David Lee Hoffman is a real tea pioneer. It's strange using any of those types of terms, pioneer, expert, legend, and I don't ever use

1 min read 2021-07-11 13:38:00

This is the longest I've went for awhile between review posts. I'll say a little about that break first and then get on with reviewing a Thai

1 min read 2021-06-26 11:46:00

Kenneth lower left, Valeri upper right (photo credit Ralph)Kind of strange to put it off for living in Thailand, but we finally had guests join

8 min read 2021-04-03 15:03:00

I visited my favorite Chinatown shop not long ago, Jip Eu, the first time in ages. A really nice local tea enthusiast me me there, someone I've

17 min read 2021-03-27 16:07:00

Back to reviews! This has been as long a break as I’ve taken in years; the last was 6 weeks ago. It has been nice to have more free time on

6 min read 2021-02-14 16:01:00

One more really interesting looking tea version from Moychay (provided by them for review, awhile back, so this review is one of a significant

6 min read 2021-01-24 12:41:00

2017 cake version left, experimental batch rightThis review is a little atypical, because I already reviewed an experimental Moychay shu (the #2

11 min read 2021-01-18 09:47:00

Greetings for 2021! I hope that it's a good year for everyone, once some after-effects of 2020 settle out. It seems appropriate to start with

10 min read 2020-12-07 15:12:00

Moychay sent some really good tea to try with versions in a set; I've not started in on the best of it yet. I was busy with some other samples