Sometimes when I’m sipping a particularly delicious aged oolong, I’ll glance over at my tea fridge and then to my wine cooler and get some major self doubt. I enjoy drinking pu’erh and happen to own enough that I’ll be aging it for a very long time. But I I also really do enjoy aged oolong… And for partly inexplicable reasons have hardly even a pu’erh cake worth of oolong put away for the long haul. (more…)
Category: Taiwanese Oolong
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Leafy Green’s Heavy Roast Dongding [Episode 260]
This episode, Denny and James bring a heavy roast Dongding onto the show. Leafy Green is a relatively new vendor who sources some of their teas from Chen Hauying, a Taiwanese tea producer.
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Eco-Cha’s Wuyi Black Tea [Episode 254]
This episode, Denny & James review a genre-bending tea, a Wuyi-style tea provided by Taiwanese-based vendor Eco-Cha.
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Eco-Cha Dongding [Episode 252]
In this episode, Denny and James drink an old favorite, Dongding.
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MyTeaGuy Oriental Beauty [Episode 251]
This episode, Denny and James review an old favorite, Oriental Beauty. Oriental Beauty is a summer-harvested, bug-bitten tea that is harvested in Taiwan. Thank you to Roy (My Tea Guy) for supplying the tea for this episode.
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Tea Drinking Reflections 2017
2017 has been a transitory year for me with a few significant life changes. Part of this involved the very painful process of packing up all my tea-related things and moving from my apartment of five years. This is the first time since my tea-obsession began that I’ve moved. It also forced me to reckon with how much I had accumulated (maybe I can just get rid of more sweaters to fit a few extra cakes?). This year has also been quite different from 2014-2016, with both my consumption and purchasing shifting significantly downwards, a shift I consider to be both positive and healthy.. (more…)
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1981 Baozhong via Everlasting Teas [Episode 240]
This episode, Denny and James drink an old Baozhong (from Everlasting Teas) that’s been re-roasted once in 1995.
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1960s Song Tea Aged Baozhong (Oolong) [Episode 237]
This episode, James and Denny drink a very old oolong from San Francisco-based vendor Song Tea.
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1989 Everlasting Tea Baozhong Aged Oolong [Inbetweenisode 148]
In this episode, James drinks a very tasty aged Baozhong from a western vendor. Clean, sweet, and aged this tea was harvested in Pinglin.
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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.