Thread: Tea anyone ??!!

Originally Posted by str8fencer

Puerh is a very old tea, but the cooking process is fairly new, I seem to recall some 30 years or so only. If you store a raw puerh for a long time (we're talking decades) it will develop nice earthy flavours. The cooking is a way to kickstart this ripening, saving many years of storage. So the answer is divided - for a well stored, well developed and old tea, yea, it will have hints of those flavours. The drawback is they do not come cheap.

I'm on my way to work now and don't have the time to dig out any links, but a while ago I got a nice xiaguan bao yan, known as tibetian flame. It was not expencive and still had nice flavours. It is a raw tea. Perhaps a nice place to start exploring raw puerhs.

I found this, is this anything like the one you speak of?? Also, I was checking out the Da Hong Pao you mentioned on this site as well, I like what I'm reading about it.

http://www.dragonteahouse.biz/xia-gu...-250g-raw.html

Originally Posted by PigHog

Is that a water cooler on the left? I like that. Nice lines.

PigHog, I picked up this travel set last year. 120ml pot and it came with some tiny 25ml, or smaller; tea cups. They look more like thimbles than tea cups. The box stores the wares and has a little drain and hose. It's OK for me and my daughter, any more and I'd want a bit more room.

Yeah, small teaware is great for specific teas and/or a single person but ends up being a bit restrictive if you need anything larger. Cups in particular.

Get yourself a larger set, too, and you'll never go wrong!

Don ..... get a nice solid big teapot or ME samovar pot set and get on with those blacks lad ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Lzbn8ZuqY

Tea and a snack....Iranian tea, a bit of cheese, grapes and some carrot cake jam from one of the residents at work. Same lady who gave me some homemade raspberry lemon jam earlier this year.

Originally Posted by donv

I found this, is this anything like the one you speak of??

Actually, the one I got was far cheaper. I ordered it off a shop on ebay. This is the one I got.

Also, it was too early for me this morning, I completely forgot to mention imperial gold needle, a very nice, quality black tea. Also worth mentioning are pure bud simao and dian hong. Actually, I read a tea forum, and all the yunnan black teas from yunnan sourcung have a high standing there.

Today I felt lazy, fall is here and daylight is getting shorter. I left work early to go home and relax and enjoy the rest of the week in peace. To keep me company I brewed a 2006 YinXiang Sheng from the Chunming Tea Factory. I'll soon grab a croissant with ham and cheese to go with the second brewing. The yixing teapot is brand new, using it for the first time today. I got it for sheng puerhs.

Coincidentially, the picture reveals the weather we have. There is a small bubble in the middle of the drinking cup remaining from the pouring of the tea. Low pressure gathers the bubbles in the middle, high pressure moves them to the rim of your cup. There, now you don't need the weatherman to tell you where the wind blows. Heh, I'll play that old song right now.. Anyone got that reference btw?

I included a small white cup in the picture, since my drinking cup is not ideal for showing the color of the brew.



Enjoy the weekend, Gentlemen.

I like your tea cup.

Has anyone seen Japanese Hagi-Yaki pottery? Amazing style of glazing and beautiful tea ware. I'd love some but can't justify it to myself, considering the amount of tea ware I already own.

http://www.artisticnippon.com/produc.../hagiyaki.html

I have been lusting for a good tea bowl for a while now, and browsed lots. A colleage at work just bought 2 expencive shigaraki tea bowls as a wedding present, they were gorgeous. I helped her find a selection of tea bowls. She ended up purchasing from this store. I am drooling over many of their bowls. So far I've resisted though.

The bowl I've got I found at a flea market. It is handmade, signed at the bottom. Still wanting a japanese handmade tho

Some of those are fantastic. At $40 the price is pretty good. I mean compare it to the price of Hagi Yaki, which most of my linked items are 3oz cups.

I say treat yourself! I might have a hunt around for Mino Yaki now!