One of the very few young teas that I drink regularly. This is from the classic vendor, Yunnan Sourcing. This is from the Jinggu region, a place where Scott has begun to place a number of teas. 2014 Autumn Daqing Gushu.
Author: James
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2009 Sanhehao Yiwu via Bana Tea Compression/Storage Comparison [Episode 148]
In episode 148, Denny and James compare the same base material stored in loose maocha form (California) vs. the caked China-Stored version. Very interesting comparison and big thanks to Bana Tea for providing the materia (the 2009 Sanhehao)l
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Teahome’s Legend of Dongding — TeaDB James InBetweenIsode Episode #71
Another oolong!? This one is the Legend of Dongding, a very reasonably priced, decent tea from a very underrated vendor.
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Lochan Tea’s Thurbo Moonlight [Episode 147]
A rare appearance by a Darjeeling on the show. Watch Denny improvise some parameters together.
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The Cult of Yang. Easter Edition. YQH Part 2
Santa Claus didn’t come this year? No problem.. Easter’s early this year.. And while it’s not traditionally much of a gift giving holiday, who’s not above spiking the kid’s easter egg hunt with a few adult treats. I’m not remotely suggesting that you should skip buying your kids candy (it’s unhealthy anyways) and replace the original tong bamboo wrapping of your YQH tong with a giant tong-shapped easter egg… (more…)
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Global Tea Hut’s January Tea Club — TeaDB James InBetweenIsode Episode #70
Another review of the tea club. This is of the Taiwanese-based magazine Global Tea Hut puts on featuring a small amount of “Old Man Dongding”.
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Jingjiatang’s 2013 Xile (Youle) [Episode 146]
Jingjitatang’s 2013 Xile. This is a nice, good bang for your buck example of modern pu’erh from one of the six famous tea mountains (Youle).
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W2T’s January Tea Club — TeaDB James InBetweenIsode Episode #69
Featuring guest star Meet. This episode features the W2T January tea club, including some 2008 White Tea and the Ol Reliable.
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2003/04 Changtai Brown [Episode 145]
A sample kindly provided by Toby. A HK-stored 2003 Changtai tea.. Nice matured, clean drinker.
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HK Report
Big thanks to those that contributed knowledge and time to helping make this a successful trip. You know who you are!
Hong Kong is a very different place than Taipei. Not having been to either, I naively expected a few more similarities. They’re both just big cities in east Asia, right? HK is dense, dense, dense, and built vertically and in general is far more commercial and fast-paced. While I’m more naturally inclined towards somewhere like Taipei, HK has a lot of very nice things that I greatly enjoy, especially the food. Dim Sum, Chinese bakeries, all cheap compared to Seattle prices. Yumm… We spent ~10 nights in Taiwan and four in Hong Kong. The first couple days were used doing relatively standard tourist things (going to tall buildings, Victoria Peak, Star Ferry) which left a bit of time for tea shopping. (more…)
