Since I always say White2Tea's Arbor Red is black tea for puerh drinkers, I was curious to see how Arbor Red would react to brewing in Jiri Duchek Rye stoneware, instead of the usual ruyao gaiwan, would affect the tea. (I usually only brew young raw puerh in Duchek Rye stoneware.) My initial impression is it makes a huge difference, smoothing the rough edges of the tea. Maybe a little too much?
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My wife is out of town, so I can enjoy this burly black tea from White2Tea on Saturday morning. 2018 Arbor Red is a bit smoky, a bit bitter, touch of returning sweetness; definitely a black tea for people who enjoy aggressive raw puerh.
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Last of the 2022 version of Farmer Leaf's house made Jingmai (very) small batch black tea (#2). I think they mostly make black tea out of their Jingmai leaves to have it to drink themselves and sell the excess.
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Getting down to the dusty bits of this sun dried Yunnan black tea with chrysanthemum flowers from Yunnan Sourcing. Keeping the steeps very short.
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Starting new year's week with a reliable and pleasant Sun Dried Yunnan black tea from Mud and Leaves.
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I like flat headed style tea knife like this one more than the pick style for most compressed tea. More like an oyster knife than a regular kitchen knife.
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Warming up on a chilly December day with robust, yet elegant, sun dried Yunnan black tea from Mud and Leaves.
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"Builders" Sun Dried Yunnan black tea from White2Tea. The tea is "mercilessly crammed" into "fragrant bamboo" tubes and roasted. A very nice malty-fruity black tea, in the style of everyday UK black tea blends.
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I appreciate this Azure Spring Sun Dried black tea from Mud and Leaves, but some mornings I wish it was a little less elegant, a bit more of a bruiser Dian Hong.
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A return to Red Saturday, Azure Spring Sun Dried Yunnan Black Tea from Mud and Leaves.
Red Saturday, still drinking through this Azure Spring Yunnan Sun Dried Ancient Tree Black Tea cake from Mud and Leaves.
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Most recent years Peter from Pu-Erh.sk has asked his Thailand tea producer to process some of the spring or summer old tree material they would normally use for his Thailand puerhs into a special sun dried black tea (and sometimes white tea). In 2023 he asked them to use all spring material from Pang San Zhou mountain. He called it "Dark Chocolate" after he tasted it. This is the loose leaf version. These teas tend to be very powerful and complex black teas, and 2023 is no exception. Tasty, too.
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Red Saturday, Azure Spring Yunnan Sun Dried Ancient Tree Black Tea.
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The name "Azure Spring Yunnan Sun Dried Ancient Tree Black Tea" is a bit long, but it is tasty Black Tea.
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Azure Spring Yunnan Sun Dried Yunnan Ancient Tree black tea is nice, almost no astringency or bitterness. For a Yunnan black tea, it is a bit more like a Taiwan black tea in style.
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2023 Azure Spring Yunnan Sun Dried Ancient Tree Black Tea is from a Taiwan based producer via Mud and Leaves. Less aggressive than I expected, quite mellow dark stone fruit flavor, but with strong, fast energy. Zip, zap, zoom!
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This is a bottom of the bags blend of three pretty serious 2022 Sun Dried Red Assamica teas. Red Wine from Pu-Erh.sk, Jingmai Red #2 from Farmer-Leaf, and a smidge of Schedule Red from White2Tea. Zim, zam, zoom; speeding into the weekend.
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2015 Vesper Chan Selected Meng-Song Arbor Black tea and a newspaper.
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2020 Astro Red was a Black tea made from the same spring yunnan maocha blend as White2Tea used for their 2020 Astro Kittens Raw Puerh. About Astro Red, White2Tea said, "The tea has an intense brothy bitterness and feelings that will overwhelm all but the grizzled veterans among you. This isn't really a tea for beginners...I am not even sure who this is for." To which I reply, this is a tea for me, thank you very much.
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