Category Archives: Drinking Report

YQH Retrospective & The YQH Value Spot

Posted on August 11, 2018 by

In our small little westerm tea community, there was quite a stir over YQH in 2015 and 2016. I’ll personally admit to being caught up in both the dialog and purchasing of these teas. YQH remains available via Emmett, the most important … Continue reading →

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Rare Tea: Dry-Stored 1980s/1990s Zhongcha 7542

Posted on June 30, 2018 by

It wouldn’t be without the generosity of experienced tea hands that I’d be able to do posts like these. A sample was provided by Peter from a cake from Su’s collcetion. Thank you to both of you! About the Tea This … Continue reading →

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Famous Tea: 1988 Qing Bing

Posted on February 24, 2018 by

The 1988 Qing Bing is a very famous cakes from the 1980s and early 1990s. Like the 1999 BGT I thought I would share my experiences with it. Phyll Sheng lays out the criteria for 1988 QB in this informative post. They … Continue reading →

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Don’t Call it Wet! YS Guangdong and Banna Stored Tastings

Posted on December 16, 2017 by

Yunnan Sourcing has quietly added quite a selection of semi-aged pu’erh stored in more humid conditions, not a bad feat for a vendor mainly known for Kunming dry-stored tea and the YS label. Getting the sample itch, I convinced my local … Continue reading →

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Strong, Burly, and not too Expensive. Semi-Aged Xiaguan, MX-Tea Report [Feat. Garrett]

Posted on November 4, 2017 by

Sorry to all the people who like the drinking reports. 2017 has been sparse. This tasting is composed of a few teas that piqued my interest, affordable, semi-aged teas from Guangdong based Taobao Vendor MX-Tea. For this group of teas, … Continue reading →

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Famous Tea: 1999 BGT Blue/Black Ticket

Posted on October 21, 2017 by

I’ve never really considered doing: one post, one tea reviews on TeaDB. It’s the most standard type of tea blog and I don’t think I have much to add beyond what many of the blogging warriors have done so already. … Continue reading →

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Early Yunnan Sourcing Production Aging Mini-Report & Some Pu’erh Thoughts

Posted on February 11, 2017 by

Many of the original pu’erh productions by western-facing vendor were in the 2009 or 2010 and principally done by Essence of Tea and Yunnan Sourcing. A lot has changed since then, and while there’s the odd production that has stayed … Continue reading →

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Give me Guangdong or Give me Death. Factory Tea Report

Posted on October 22, 2016 by

Young pu and now factory tea. Aren’t you the guy that published that super-negative Xiaguan report. At least young pu’erh is popular in our western pu’erh community. Who the hell is talking about factory tea in the west? Other than the … Continue reading →

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FOMO. 2016 Premium Young Tea Report

Posted on September 24, 2016 by

If you have been living in a cave with your pu’erh stash for the past 15 years and arejust reemerging to restock your stash, I have some news for you. You should’ve bought apple stock. And google. And loads of … Continue reading →

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Wistaria Pu’erh Mini-Report [April/May 2016]

Posted on August 13, 2016 by

Wistaria (website) is an iconic, Taipei teahouse. The building itself is nearly 100 years old and lived through its share of history. As a teahouse, Wistaria and it’s proprietor (Zhou Yu) have played an important role in the development of modern chayi … Continue reading →

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