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    May 13, 2018

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    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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    April 17, 2018

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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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    April 6, 2018

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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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    March 20, 2018

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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 tea tree

    March 14, 2018

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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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    March 10, 2018

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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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    Jelena and Pu-erh tea

    February 11, 2018

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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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    January 26, 2018

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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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    January 14, 2018

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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…

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