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All About Menghai Tea Factory & Why It is An Ideal Entrypoint to Raw and Ripe Pu’erh

January 18, 2026

Article

Famous Tea: 1996 Zhenchunya Hao

December 22, 2025

Article, Drinking Report

Aged Oolong Categorization

January 10, 2026

Aged Oolong, Article, Oolong, Taiwanese Oolong

Along with ~50 other people I participated in an aged oolong tasting curated by Marshaln. Marshaln has a fantastic blog, which is easily best English language source on aged oolongs. I highly recommend reading through everything with the aged oolong tag on his site. For the blind tasting I did the full gauntlet twice. Once…

Four Reasons Why You Should Get Your Baseline in Mid 00s Factory Pu’erh

January 4, 2026

Article, Raw Pu’erh

Bulang Brutalists Report

December 3, 2025

Article, Drinking Report, Raw Pu’erh

Alex on All About Menghai Tea Factory & Why It is An Ideal Entrypoint to Raw and Ripe Pu’erhJanuary 22, 2026
Excellent article! I was looking for just such a guide to factory pu-erhs. I mostly like V93 with its nutty…
Mr P on All About Menghai Tea Factory & Why It is An Ideal Entrypoint to Raw and Ripe Pu’erhJanuary 22, 2026
Nice article James and a solid recommendation.
James on Yiwu-ish Enjoyers Mega Report. 103 Teas Reviewed!January 20, 2026
There’s also the Xiaguan Chawang teas. A lot less variety of productions back then in general. I’ve actually heard the…
localteasnob on Yiwu-ish Enjoyers Mega Report. 103 Teas Reviewed!January 11, 2026
What Yiwu productions were made in the early 2000s by larger factories? I know of the big green tree productions…
James on Four Reasons Why You Should Get Your Baseline in Mid 00s Factory Pu’erhJanuary 11, 2026
Thank you! I have not had the 2004 from Quiche, but I have had a couple versions of the 2004…