Tea Tasting with Friends – Part I

Thanks to Peggy and Mike, I hosted a tea tasting session with a group of friends and friends’ friends yesterday. Twelve people showed up and two and half hour flew by without us even noticing. Everybody was having a good time.

People attending the tasting session have a wide range of experience with tea. Some are new to the tea world, and some have already developed their own preference. However, regardless of their experience, everyone came with an open mind, and left with more knowledge and nice lingering tea taste in their mouths.

I prepared the tasting session in the order of tea strengthens so that stronger teas such as Oolong and black teas would not overpower green teas. This also allowed people to assess their tea preferences in the full range of tea scales. We started with two types of green teas, then progressed into Oolong and black tea, and finished up with a wonderful brew of 20 year old Loose Old Tea Tree Pu-erh.

To be continued…

Linda
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TeaHub is launching Dong Ting Pi Lo Chun/Bi Luo Chun Tasting Set

Dong Ting Bi Luo Chun (all also called Pi Lo Chun) enjoys a fine reputation in China as one of the highly praised green tea from beautiful Dong Ting area in Jiang Su province. However, its name is far from known outside China. Our recent research shows that not only it is less known to oversea tea drinkers, but also it is confused with Bi Luo Chun from other regions such as Yunnan, Taiwan.

Bi Luo Chun was originated from Dong Ting, Jiang Su. As the production technique spreaded across the country, places such as Yunnan, Taiwan started to produce their own version of Bi Luo Chun. Yunnan Bi Luo Chun are made of leaves of Yunnan large leaf tea trees and Taiwan Bi Luo Chun are made of leaves of Taiwan local tea trees. None of them are same to the original Dong Ting Bi Luo Chun tea trees. Not to mention the unique environment that gives Dong Ting Bi Luo Chun its unique floral and fruity aroma.

Dong Ting Bi Luo Chun has unique fine and delicate taste that can't be found in either Yunnan or Taiwan Bi Luo Chun. In order to introduce this Chinese delicacy to oversea tea loves, we teamed up with our Bi Luo Chun producer in Dong Ting to offer a tasting set starting this spring. More information regarding this tasting set can be found on our site.

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Treat yourself with a cup of Bi Luo Chun from Bi Luo Peak

If you are a Bi Luo Chun lover, you know that real Bi Luo Chun is from Dong Ting, Jiang Su. If you are a devoted Bi Luo Chun lover, you perhaps are obsess with the never ending search of Dong Shan (East Mountain) Bi Luo Chun. Located at peak of Dong Shan, Bi Luo Peak is the origin of Bi Luo Chun tea, and still grows the best Bi Luo Chun today.

Although not everybody can travel to Bi Luo Peak, you sure can enjoy a cup of premium Bi Luo Chun we brought to you from East Mountain wherever you are, and put your imagination to work looking at this picture from Bi Luo Peak.

We offers two Bi Luo Chun from Dong Shan this year. The pre-Ming Bi Luo Chun is absolutely a gem. Those tightly twisted young, gentle tea buds are a joy to watch. According to our producer, we are the only one that offer this grade of Bi Luo Chun to oversea market. We decided to carry the pre-Yu Bi Luo Chun after tasting it. It was harvested right after Qing Ming, and has a quality that matches last year's pre-Ming production. It is a great tea to enjoy everyday without pinching your wallet.

For more info on Bi Luo Chun, check out our Bi Luo Chun Talk. We also offer Bi Luo Chun tasting set for you to compare different grades of Bi Luo Chun.

Linda
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2008 Pre-Ming West Lake Long Jing expected to arrive next week

After some long wait, our 2008 Pre-Ming West Lake Long Jing finally is arriving. As expected, quality of this year's production is better. After some careful tasting, we picked the premium batch harvested in the early harvest period of March 27 to 30, 2008. This years' cold weather delayed West Lake Long Jing harvest by more than 10 days, which in turn shorted the harvest period of this year's pre-Ming Long Jing, which ended on April 5.

We are very pleased with this batch. All tender leaves from first flush, very refreshing, purified taste. Another great West Lake Long Jing from renowned Tea Research Institute of Zhangzhou!

We have both Long Jing #43 and Long Jing Varietal for your to choose from at our online store .

Linda
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