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中国茶専門店リムテー　プチコロプーアル茶

マカロンさんに教えてもらった小沱茶をお試し
1個3gで500円玉くらいの塊がたくさん入ってるやつ
せっかくなのでこないだ買った茶壺でいただきます🙏

前回買った天香茶行さんのプーアル茶より香りが強め色濃いめで味はすっきりかな…？でも紫砂壺は使ってなかったのでこの違いはむしろ紫砂壺の要素が強そう
洗茶については書いていなかったのでとりあえず10秒洗茶して飲んだ

香りが良くてスッキリしてて美味しいね
最近は健康のために夜はプーアル茶を延々と飲んでる :doge_a:
#tea #中国茶 #fediverseお茶部 #普洱茶

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As a way to welcome the start of autumn, I drank a tea which perfectly reflected the season a few days ago: 2021 Old Tree Jingmai Shu Pu'er by Nari Tea 🍂

The color of the broth was a fascinating bright ochre that I rarely see in teas.
The aroma was that of a forest after rain and decomposing leaves, but the taste was savory, with a hint of minerality. It also had a surprising sweetness for a dark tea, and this combination of flavors gave it interesting depth.

It overall really reminded me of a beautiful autumn afternoon 🍁

#tea #teaTime #puer #shuPuer #JingmaiPuer #ChineseTea #NariTea #autumn #gongfucha #工夫茶 #功夫茶 #茶 #普洱茶

A gong fu tea set seen from above. In the background is a yixing small open teapot on a ceramic water tray, and next to it are a small black stone, a paper with some information about the tea, and a small branch used to push the tea in the teapot. In the forefront is a dark, small tea cup, and my hand holding a pitcher and pouring the tea from it into the cup. The tea is bright orange.

Chinese breakfast to start the day

#food #porkbun #dumpling #tea #叉燒包 #餃子 #普洱茶

2020 Jingmai Old Tree Sheng Puerh

#景迈 #景迈茶 #puerh #tea #普洱茶 #crimsonlotus #生普洱 @tea

Another photoshoot a few weeks in the making, this tea is an unusual form of 普洱生茶 (Pǔ'ěr shēng chá or Pu'er raw tea). The leaves come from the renowned village 勐海昔归 (Měnghǎi Xīguī or Xigui, Menghai, Yunnan) near Lingcang, famous for some of the best old-growth tea leaves available with a unique terroir. It is then further processed (packaged and aged) in 昆明市云南省 (Yúnnán Shěng Kūnmíng Shì or Kunming, Yunnan).

This kind of tea is called "cylinder compressed" and is made by pounding the initially-processed tea, while still slightly damp, into bamboo containers before being put out to be dried and aged.

This particular one comes from 2020 and was removed from its bamboo shell and wrapped in crepe paper and some kind of leaf (large bamboo leaf? banana leaf? lotus leaf? I'm not sure which) for sale.

I should point out that as a very young raw tea this is absolutely *not* a beginner's tea. It is very finicky and fussy to brew and making mistakes with it can leave you with an undrinkable and bitter brew that strips the lining from your mouth and throat, or can leave you with a very mildly-flavoured cup of water.

Do it right, however, and you get a tea of genuine character.

I'll probably grab a few more cylinders of this young stuff and store it patiently for at least another six years and I'll likely have a perfect raw pu'er.

As usual, the alt text has more information and Mastodon users will have to click through to see all of the photographs.

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#茶叶 #中国名茶 #普洱茶 #生茶 #Tea #ChineseTea #PuErTea #RawTea

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@tea@a.gup.pe

The tea comes packaged like this. The bamboo cylinder it was compressed and aged in has been removed and the tea is now wrapped in crepe paper and a broad leaf of some kind. Strips of bamboo have been used as twist ties to hold it all together.

The village name is written in semi-cursive calligraphy on one side.

On the other side the cylinder has a sticker with the usual information on it: producer, place of growth, place of production, date of production, contact information, etc.

When you strip the leaf packaging you get a white cylinder. In this case the white cylinder is in my bamboo tea tray used for storing and tearing apart pu'er teas. Unfortunately this tray is for the 357g discs and this cylinder is 500g. This will cause problems later.

As the white paper is torn off, the strange form factor of the tea is revealed. Being a very young raw tea, it's still mostly green with only hints of the brown that it will eventually develop if left to age for a few more years. Even when this tightly compressed, the fact it came from old growth, large-leaf tea is very obvious.

I took delivery of several new teas this week, this being the first photo essay of the set. Each one is a very different kind of tea and in upcoming weeks I will be making new photo essays.

Since today was nice weather I did my more usual pretentious style of layout, complete with the incense brazier (burning agar wood incense), the bamboo slip scroll of the 茶经 (Chá Jīng or The Classic of Tea) all to frame the real star of the essay.

And that star is 陈皮普洱 (Chénpí Pǔ'ěr or Tangerine Peel Pu'er). It's literally a hollowed-out tangerine peel—specifically 小青柑 (xiǎo qīng gān or little green tangerine), a kind that is green even when ripe—that has had (cooked) pu'er tea stuffed inside of it and then dried out. It's a famous kind of tea here and I've had it before, but never bought it for myself and made it in my own home.

Until today.

As usual explanations are in the alt text and Mastodon users will have to click through to see all the pictures.

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#茶 #Tea #普洱茶 #PuErTea #中国名茶 #ChineseTea #陈皮普洱 #TangerinePeelPuEr #小青柑 #LittleGreenTangerine

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Rear view of the 250g package with a different sticker detailing first that it is actually 250g. There is a lot of information on the back including ingredients (pu'er tea and orange peel), the place of production (Quanzhou, Fujian), the shelf life (36 months), the producer (Fujian Lixiang Tea Industry Co., Ltd.), addresses and telephone numbers, instructions for storage (sealed and in the dark), and the production date (2024-10-12).

”The stage is set, the band starts playing. Suddenly your heart is pounding." — Styx

The tableau laid out. The tea glass is to the left, basket removed and sitting in its lid. In the middle is a piece of white paper (used for contrast to get a better feel for colours) with two vermilion stamps at the top left. On the paper is one of the wrapped oranges. To the right is a bamboo slip scroll of the Classic of Tea. Behind it all is a small brazier for incense, smoking. All this is sitting on a black tablecloth all in front of some potted plants outside the window this is arranged in.

A closeup of one of the wrapped oranges in its gold-coloured foil wrapper and the green sticker that holds it all together.

So, I've not done 普洱茶 (pǔ'ěr chá or pu'er tea) in a long time to the point that the bamboo basket I store my tea in was pushed way to the back of my shelf. While doing some reorganization I picked it up to move it and just out of curiosity opened it, expecting to see a few cheap tea knives and nothing else.

Instead I found an old 熟茶 (shú chá or "cooked" tea) brick that I've had since 2018. Since it was dry-stored properly in a bamboo basket stuck in a cool corner, there was no doubt in my mind that it was still good, so I decided to crack it open and make it, doing a photo essay in the process.

Sadly we're in the season that leads to the kind of weather I like to call "shit weather" here in Wuhan, so my usual thing of spreading out a tableau outside my window with greenery in the background and my 茶经 (Chá Jīng or Classic of Tea) scroll displayed alongside wasn't going to happen. I instead chose a different presentation I hope you enjoy. (It's a little less pretentious.)

Of course after I spent the time getting everything together, taking the photos, and uploading them to my cloud storage ... the shit weather went away and the sun came out; it would have been perfect for my usual approach.

Meh.

#茶 #tea #普洱茶 #熟茶 #PuErTea #CookedTea #SurpriseTea

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Note: As usual Mastodon users will have to click through to see all the pictures. Also as usual, explanations of each picture can be found in the alt text.

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The discovery: From a point of view of staring down a bamboo basket constructed to store tea cakes can be seen three cheap tea knives and, resting atop them, a 250g brick of tea wrapped in crepe paper. The paper has writing in Chinese both in black and in red. (A later photograph in the sequence will hold the translation.)

This was the surprise that greeted me when I took down the basket to dust it off.

Since I found a tea brick, I decided, too, to clean off my tea storage box and tray. The picture depicts the tray in the box and the top/front of the box showing facing the camera. The box and tray combination is made of bamboo and is typically stored horizontally, not vertically like this. It was arranged this way for ease of photography and for continuity with the next photograph.

The top of the bamboo box is branded with the Chinese word for tea in a fancy scrollwork circle.

The tray is removed from the box and placed in front (horizontally, as it would usually be stored) with the box still standing vertically in the background for display purposes. The box contains from left to right a wooden dowel with a dual brass ring in the middle that looks like it should be separable there, a strange-looking pair of pliers with two sharp "teeth" on each side, and ordinary looking paintbrush like the kind you can find for cheap in any hardware store, and the tea brick, still wrapped, from the basket photograph.

The tea brick, still wrapped, from the front. The big, black Chinese characters running down the centre say "jujube scented old tea brick". (No jujubes were harmed in the making of this tea. The descriptive text is for comparison purposes only in the same vein as an astringent wine being described as tasting like walnuts.)

The red text to the bottom left reads "Menghai mellow aged pu'er" while to the right it reads "pu'er tea (cooked tea) net contents: 250 grams".

#Fediverseお茶部 #抹茶 #普洱茶 #和紅茶

ここ最近お茶を投稿したつもりで忘れがちだったのでまとめて:blobtanuki_ocha:

プーアル茶を茶餅から崩してガラス蓋碗で淹れました。慣れない頃は注いでいる時に熱くなってきて持てなかったのですが、コツを掴んできました:blobcattea:

3枚目の画像はニルマーネルさんのはなゆらかという和紅茶で、普段は煎茶に使われることの多い「やぶきた」という品種を紅茶にしたもので、これもスッッと香って美味しい。

4枚目の画像は手作り抹茶ミルク。
最近抹茶を茶筅で点てられるようになったので調子に乗って作りました:senno_rikyu:

(ガラス製品は映り込みがこわい)