In this episode, Denny and James drink an old favorite, Dongding.
Category: Low-Elevation Oolong
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Floating Leaves Tea’s Muzha Tieguanyin [Episode 180]
A Taiwanese, high-fired roasted Tieguanyin from local tea shop, Floating Leaves.
-
TeaHome’s Mid-Fired Dongding [Episode 149]
Getting back to our roots, with a mid-fired Dongding from Teahome. Sweet, aromatic, and easy to drink.
-
The Much Delayed Taiwan Oolongs Teas to Age Report
Better late than never, right? I announced this tea of the month about a year ago and have had samples sitting around forever. The original goal of this report was to find some decent oolongs to age for the future. The samples from Mountain Tea and Teahome, two vendors that each had a few inexpensive options for roasted oolongs. Because these were acquired a while ago, they’re mainly teas from Winter 2014. (more…)
-
Shopping for Tea in Taiwan
Forever alone.. Being a pu’erh addict in the west is a lonely endeavor and how we intake information and buy tea is in all likelihood very different than the average Asian pu-head. We’re often resigned to the tea table/closet all by our self. If we’re lucky we can get a good friend/significant other to come over once a month to humor us but we’re mainly drinking alone and talking to each other on instagram.. It’s no wonder why teapets are so popular..
In the western tea scene… 65ml teapots are in high-demand.
In the western tea scene… we get teeny, tiny boxes of tea shipped monthly.
In the western tea scene… a cake is most definitely not a sample.
In the western tea scene… we occasionally indulge with **gasp** multiple 200g cakes that we we still have trouble getting through! (more…)