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Tasting Two Bulang Sheng Pu’er Teas Side by Side

March 19, 2018 by Tristan Jordan 2 Comments

Tasting Two Bulang Sheng Pu’er Teas Side by Side Today I’m glad to be posting a set of tasting notes from a session that I had about a week and a half ago. They were supposed to be posted last week, but I had to take a brief hiatus due to an unexpected surgery that … [Read more…]

Posted in: Teas Tagged: pu'er tea, sheng pu'er, VT, YS

A Bad Buy and Lessons Learned

November 6, 2017 by Tristan Jordan 4 Comments

Background Recently I’ve been drinking many different teas that I enjoy, and evaluating them with the goal of better understanding what specific qualities make a tea good in my mind. Any time I am particularly moved by a good tea, the tea (regardless of category) seems to have a few traits: enjoyable flavors and aromas, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Teas Tagged: pu'er tea, sheng pu'er, VT

Qilan Wuyi Wulong Tea

August 28, 2017 by Tristan Jordan 3 Comments

Background Two weeks ago I realized that I had not written any blog posts about Wulong Tea (烏龍茶, or wulong cha in Chinese). For that reason I drank a lightly oxidized Taiwanese wulong tea, and discussed some of the production methods and flavors typical of that style of tea. Today I wanted to talk about … [Read more…]

Posted in: Teas Tagged: VT, wulong tea

Bad Marketing Part 2

August 18, 2017 by Tristan Jordan 2 Comments

Overview Today’s blog post is a followup to an earlier post of mine in which I brewed a tea 30 times in order to see whether or not I believed if a tea company’s claims about a 5 gram sample of Wild Tong Mu Jin Jun Mei that could be brewed 30 times had any truth. I … [Read more…]

Posted in: Teas Tagged: hong cha, red tea, VT

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