Green tea quality grade and harvesting time
Harvesting time is one of the determinants of green tea quality grade. For example, the three quality grades (High, Premium and Exclusive) of our Dragon Well green tea are harvested…
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New Yixing Zisha tea canister preparation
Yixing Zisha tea canister Similar to Yixing Zisha teapots, Zisha tea canisters are the premium tea storage, especially for teas such as Pu-erh tea which requires oxygen for its post-fermentation….
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Tea and mediation
I grew up in China with tea being a food and a way of life. There is even a term for it: 口粮茶 – staple tea. I have however often…
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A comparison study of consumer’s ripened Pu-erh preferences against two differing temperature and humidity storage conditions
Overview: The implication of Pu-erh tea’s storage on it’s aging has gone through intense debate during recently years, largely by two camps of tea dealers and consumers: 1/ the traditional…
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Pu-erh Gushu (Ancient tea trees)
Pu-erh Tea Pu-erh tea is a unique class of Chinese teas, with a fundamental difference from other categories of teas being the tea leaves are harvested from arbour tea trees…
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Pu-Wen Yun-Ya Pu-erh
Pu-Wen (普文), a major pu-erh manufacturer in the Yunnan Province Pu-Wen (普文) is a Pu-erh manufacturer established in 1954 with its own eco plantation of 10,000 acres within the area…
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A Cool Summer Evening with Pu-erh Tuocha
A Cool Summer’s Evening… By my way of thinking, the sweltering inferno that is often Sydney summer, does not call for abstinence from the joy of a nice cup of…
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Raw Pu-erh tea, a green tea or Hei-Cha
I have always thought of Pu-erh tea as: traditionally compressed and produced in the Yunnan Province of China, ripened Pu-erh as HeiCha (黑茶) and freshly produced raw Pu-erh as green…
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How to differentiate pu-erh tea qualities
Someone (anonymous person) has listed the following aspects when considering a pu-erh quality that I believe is worthwhile sharing. Aspects to pay attention to: Refreshing: aroma (dry tea) has to…
