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TShop’s Yushan, Taiwanese High Mountain Oolong [Episode 227]
A crisp, tasty green high mountain oolong from TShop. Extremely refreshing with good depth and huigan.
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WuyiOrigin Qidan Wuyi Oolong with Meet [Inbetweenisode 142]
This episode features perennial guest, Meet for some more of his favorite tea, Yancha. They drink James’ regular brew of the last year, WuyiOrigin’s Qidan.
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Travel Write-Up (JP + TW + HK)
I recently had the privilege of traveling to Asia for the third time. Within 3.5 weeks I traveled to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. I wasn’t going to write anything originally, but a slow chatter of emails and messages have convinced me to type up a report. The trip was primarily not tea-related, I did…
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WuyiOrigin Qidan [Inbetweenisode 131]
This inbetweenisode, James drinks WuyiOrigin’s Qidan. On the lighter roasted side of Wuyi and very aromatic. Qidan is one of the common varietals used as a close cousin of Dahongpao. https://www.wuyiorigin.com/
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Floating Leaves Three Roast Dongding [Episode 208]
Three roast Dongding from Floating Leaves. A nicely processed and roasted oolong, that’s a bit different from your standard charcoal roasted Dongding oolong.
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Wuyi Origin Xingren Xiang Dancong Oolong [Episode 206]
An almond aroma (Xingren Xiang) Dancong from Cindy Chen over at Wuyi Origin.
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Wuyi Origin Milan Xiang [Inbetweenisode 126]
Another very pleasant Dancong from Cindy at WuyiOrigin. This episode features another guest appearance by Meet.
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Wuyi Origin Yashi Xiang aka Duck**** Aroma [Episode 203]
The infamous Duck**** aroma tea featured on TeaDB. This is an oddity for TeaDB, a Dancong. Enjoyable, aromatic tea. Thanks to Cindy for sending this our way. https://www.wuyiorigin.com/
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2014 Wuyi Origin Laocong Shuixian [Episode 199]
A 2014 Old Bush Shuixian Yancha from Cindy Chen at Wuyi Origin.
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Tea Drinking Reflections 2016 & 15 Cake Challenge 2017
In what is becoming a yearly tradition, I spent too much and bought too much in 2016. An extended trip to Asia didn’t help matters. Unlike 2015 I’m actually pretty happy with what I spent money on. Part of this is just having another a year under my belt to both learn about tea and my…